Depression and anxiety affects a person’s family, work, or school life; sleeping and eating habits; and general health. Depression and Anxiety becomes problematic when it starts to interfere with a normal lifestyle and can cause great hardship...
When someone is struggling with an addiction to a substance, whether drugs or alcohol, or they have a mental health disorder, it is common a family member or loved one will reach out to us for an intervention. Helping a loved one struggling with an addiction can be...
When executive functioning skills are hindered, it can make learning, working and managing daily life difficult. Things like organization, planning, and the ability to think things through and weigh the pros and cons of a situation can be a real struggle that impacts...
It’s true the path to recovery is fraught with challenges in the beginning. It’s work, discipline, commitment, peeling back layer of vulnerabilities, speaking our truth and more. It also calls for perseverance and faith. Then you throw motherhood in the mix – being...
“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain but it’s more common and harder to bear.”~ C.S. Lewis Many people struggle with suicidal thoughts during times of stress or when facing mental or physical health adversity. The onset of the pandemic and the...
Connections in Recovery in Colorado, Los Angeles, New York and Europe provides adolescent services, which includes case management, coaching and companion services. With experienced clinical collaborators, we offer guidance, support, and tools to help adolescents and...
How did Fentanyl Ushers in Third Wave of Opioid Epidemic? In the 1990s, the first wave of an opioid epidemic emerged with the over use of prescription of natural and semi-synthetic opioids and methadone. An increase in deaths related to the opioids would grow the...
Sober Holidays and Moctails put the fun into the holiday season. One of the most difficult holidays of all, this festive time of year for us who don’t drink or for those who want to limit their intake of alcoholic beverages can be challenging. You add the...
Connections in Recovery (CiR) remote coaching services can provide the right support, from LMFT’s, CPC, IFC, Pivot, ELI-MP, to CCAPP, and IAPRC’s. As states like New York and others report yet another increase in coronavirus cases from the...
Dealing with a dysfunctional family is challenging. There are many definitions online as well as in books on what exactly is a dysfunctional family. A few descriptions might point to a lack of healthy boundaries and behaviors: verbal, emotional or physical abuse, poor...
