Where Have all the Flowers Gone? On Grief and Loss
*(dedicated to Joshua Walker Oct. 15, 1980-July 22, 2019) This morning, July 27, 2019 actually 1:00 am California-time, 4:00 am Charlotte-time, I uncustomarily ordered coffee from room service and they...
View ArticleGood Times at The Blanchard Institute
Question: What do yo-yos, baby sharks, bowling, virtual reality, basketball games, and behavioral health care professionals have in Common? Answer: Ward Blanchard– innovator, inspirer and collaborator....
View ArticleRelationships In Recovery: You can’t live with them and you can’t live...
In early recovery, the many perpetual issues couples face may seem more visible. Learn the types of relational problems folks - in or out of recovery - can experience.The post Relationships In...
View ArticleAddiction Unlimited Podcast: Dr. Louise Stanger
Enjoy Dr. Stanger’s visit on the Addiction Unlimited podcast with Angela Pugh, where they discuss addiction, recovery and how interventions are an invitational process....
View ArticleWhat Type Of Modern Parent Are You? Helicopters, Submarines, Snowplows, or...
Louise Stanger is a speaker, educator, licensed clinician, social worker, certified daring way facilitator and interventionist who uses an invitational intervention approach to work with complicated...
View ArticleBack to School: Tips for High School Seniors and Their Parents
As parents with sons and daughters prepare to enter the new school year as seniors, their worlds pick up and, for many, become frenetic. The focus is often split between the excitement of freshly...
View ArticleWhat Can A Parent Do? Adult children – Anxiety – Addiction and Launching
It seems every week I get a phone call from a parent who is worried about their adult son or daughter. They are fraught with concern and confusion about their adult child who is struggling to get it...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Juul (and Dr. Mark Rubenstein)
An Open Letter to Juul (and Dr. Mark Rubenstein): It was recently reported by the L.A. Times that you, Juul Labs, have hired Dr. Mark Rubenstein as your medical director from the University of San...
View ArticleDear Readers: Reflections on the Past Year
Dear Readers, Recently a friend sent me these words of wisdom. It moved my heart and so reflected how I felt about this year that I have chosen to start of this blog with these words. “A lot can happen...
View ArticleAre Interventions Traumatizing?
One of the biggest questions that families have asked me recently is: will the intervention traumatize my loved one? The first time I heard that I instantly thought: We do not want to harm your loved...
View ArticleA New Twist on a Deadly Problem
A new twist in the evolving opioid epidemic that flared up in regions across the United States a few years ago has clinicians and health professionals like myself hopeful that an end is near. The...
View ArticleWhat’s Behind Your Mask – Mental Health – Anxiety – Depression – Addiction?
Halloween is fast approaching, and it is the one time a year everyone is given permission to hide behind a mask of their choosing. Which has me considering, what kind of masks do we put on (all year...
View ArticleA Love Letter For Any & Every Age
October is my birth month, and it’s given me pause to consider how grateful I am for all the experiences I have had these past 73 years. I share this love letter with you, so you too may write your...
View ArticleGod Shots, They Are All Around Us
In addiction recovery, one often hears someone say: that’s a “God Shot,” meaning something happened that was by chance and had a profound effect on them, and proved an unexpected blessing. Mary...
View ArticleHappy Halloween, Trick or Treat Part 1
Dear Reader, I love Halloween with all the tricks and treats, and how everyone gets to let their inner child out by dressing up and becoming someone they always wanted to be. This year my 6-year-old...
View ArticleInside The Goldfinch: How Sudden Death and Trauma Influences Addiction;...
The other day my good friend and colleague Dr. James Flowers (J Flowers Health Institute) and I were discussing the eloquence of the movie The Goldfinch, a drama with enthralling force and acuity...
View ArticleJUUL Is Feeling The Heat
With vaping emerging as a public health crisis, Juul, one of the leading vape companies, is fending off a bevy of government agencies for its role in fanning the epidemic flames. Recently, Time...
View ArticleSoundBath Experience – The Integratron
*Image courtesy The Integratron website As I welcome my 73rdyear, I decided I wanted to experience new and different ways of healing. There is nothing very remarkable about 73, not like 21, 25, 50, 65...
View ArticleThe Importance of Evaluation in Treatment Planning and Placement- Louise A...
Over the past month, I have had the good fortune of travelling to an excellent behavioral health conference in Florida, Moments of Change, and visiting Lifeskills, a mental health/substance abuse...
View ArticleTravel – Trauma – Triumph
Life is so precious. Over the last month, I have traveled hither and yon from West Palm Beach, Florida to Morgantown West Virginia, Pittsburgh, Penna with Houston, Texas and Salt Lake City and ending...
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