women's issues

This post is dedicated to Vladmir, a loyal reader and ACoA in Russia;

Yes Vladimir, it is up to our parents to love us unconditionally so that we the innocent beings are able to integrate mind, body and soul--but when we are born to people who are unaware they themselves have a self--and instead are reactive--there is no way they...

As adult children of alcoholics as well as grandchildren of alcoholics, we have been programmed to live outside of ourselves like feathers caught up in other people's wind storms. Because we never knew when the next embarrassing, humiliating, verbal, or physical attack was going to erupt, we have had to become...

If you are an adult child from a dysfunctional home, whether the tool of dysfunction used was alcohol, emotional manipulation, guilt, shame or physical or sexual abuse--as and adult today, you may have...

As an adult child of an alcoholic, you are probably struggling with various emotional issues. Very often unaware adult children of alcoholics do not even realize that...

Its not easy to love someone who is choosing to hurt themselves. When the one we love is using alcohol, heroin or other forms of chemicals to escape the emotional and physical consequences of reality it is not difficult to identify what needs to get addressed. In the case of drug and or alcohol addiction it is obvious that dependency is the issue. In these cases, the family of the addicted...

As I grow into spirit and push past prior boundaries of my mind so do I share the lessons I am learning. I am convinced this is the way life was meant to be lived--learn and spread the word. Although my perceptions of God and of Christ have played tugs of war in my head throughout the years, I have been unable to ever discount...