Dear Lauren, Usually the holiday season is my favorite time of the year. I love seeing my family members that live far away and giving out presents to my loved ones. This year is going to be much different than the past. I have been sober for over six months, and I plan on […]
Month: December 2017
Addiction Intervention and Sobriety
Dear Lauren, I am at a loss. I want to give up, but I know that I can’t. My best friend of ten years is headed down a dangerous spiral and I am afraid he is close to hitting rock bottom. I have talked to his sister and she is just as worried as […]
Peer Support Group
Sobriety Dear Lauren, I recently made the choice to devote my life to being sober and clean. I first became an alcoholic when I was in college, and a lack of resources led to me self-medicating with alcohol and other dangerous substances. Since then I have kicked the drugs, but I keep finding myself […]
Benefits of Yoga for Men
Addiction and Depression Help Dear Lauren, I am writing to you for advice on how to help my husband with his addiction recovery. He recently got clean from an addiction to alcohol that lasted over five years. It nearly tore us apart, and we are doing much better now. He has been suffering from […]
How to Deal With an Alcoholic
How to Deal with an Alcoholic Dear Lauren, I am getting really scared that my best friend is developing a drinking problem. We have been roommates since the beginning of the semester and she goes out four or more times a week drinking. She is constantly blacking out and drinking absurd amounts of […]
Alcohol Abuse and PTSD
Recent celebrity posting has created a whole lot of buzz around an inmate serving a lenghthy term for murder named Cyntoia Brown. Most noticeably, Rihanna and Kim Kardashian posted on Instagram about how Brown was charged as an adult for the murder of a man she thought was going to kill her. Brown was only […]