Alcoholics Anonymous is a free support group that can help people get and stay sober. In Atlanta, you can find a meeting almost every hour of every day (www.atlantaaa.org) . Continue reading
To me, the everyday definition of crazy is when you see, hear, feel or smell things that others in the same room don’t feel, see, hear or smell. So, when someone asks me if they are crazy, that’s the open door to figuring out what was normal behavior in their family. For George, normal behavior was parents screaming at each other and their kids. That didn’t work so well for him when he got married and started screaming at his wife. Continue reading
Susan told me that she couldn’t trust anyone. Later, she told me that she had no one she could rely on. I asked her to try saying “I won’t trust anyone. I won’t rely on anyone else.” She began to cry. She could see how her negative beliefs were keeping her stuck in a lonely life. Continue reading