This is a self-help recovery guide for parents in the devastating situation of realizing that they are powerless to stop their children from self-destruction through drug and/or alcohol abuse. It is dedicated to letting parents know when it is ...
Clinical psychologist and author of The Defining Decade, Dr. Meg Jay reveals the world of the -supernormal-: those who soar to unexpected heights after childhood adversity. Whether it is bullying, the loss of a parent to divorce, drug misuse or...
A practical handbook for anyone who suspects (or knows) someone they care about is a drug user. Drawing on the tragic loss of his own son to a heroin overdose and over 20 years working as a counsellor, Tony Trimingham cuts through the media hyp...
In this seminal new study of resilience, Meg Jay tells the stories of a diverse group of people who have overcome trauma in their childhoods to go on and live successful lives as adults. These are the ‘supernormal’, who having shoul...
Elizabeth Burton Phillips is a teacher, an ordinary middle-class mother who had always tried to do the best for her children; she never imagined that her identical twin sons, who had been doing so well at school, would become involved in drugs....
I have recently celebrated my 18 years of complete abstinence from all mind altering chemicals along with taku hoa rakatira.
There was nothing I wouldn’t have done for him…but I couldn’t follow him down a path of destruction and harm, the direct result of his drug addiction.
I have been at war with myself for fifteen years now. Oh, the sorrow of war!
Our son’s addiction has had a significant affect on other family/whānau members.
