When you work in healthcare and particularly in the mental health arena, nowhere is it more evident that our system is ineffective, enables dependency, costs a fortune and likes to grab and keep people entrenched in the system instead of making them healthier. The...
Any author will tell you that the most that we can hope for when our book goes out into the world is that it will somehow impact our readers—whether we write fiction and our goal is to enlighten and entertain, or nonfiction when we hope to pass on some helpful...
With all the wine time talk out there, when it comes to alcoholism, no one seems to understand what alcoholism looks like in the eighty-percent of alcoholics who attend college, have jobs, go on vacation, go out with friends, and visit or have families of their own....
My mother was that mother. She was beautiful, wildly fun, and about as inappropriate as a mother could be. I grew up back in the day of 3.2 beer and plenty of cigarettes, that at sixteen years old she didn’t care that I smoked, my sisters’ smoked, and the crowd of...
True That…. How many of you reading this already have resolutions in mind that you want to make for the new Year? Next question is how many of you will follow through on the promises you make to yourself? The answer is obvious…, most of us say we will do this that and...
People are drinking more than ever, particularly millennials. Women especially, guzzle wine like crazy, and according to one article in The Fix, “Women are drinking twice as much wine as men.” So what’s going on? Why are so many women numbing...
