Rehab Is Not the Finish Line, It’s the Starting Point Most people think rehab is where the real magic happens. They imagine a 28-day programme that cleans someone up, fixes their thinking, heals their trauma, and sends them back into the world reborn. Families especially cling to this idea because it offers hope, the hope that once rehab ends, the […]

Loving Someone With Addiction Will Break You If You’re Not Careful Helping a person with addiction is one of the hardest emotional experiences anyone can go through, not because you don’t love them, but because addiction turns love into a battlefield. You’re constantly torn between wanting to save them and trying to save yourself. You feel guilty when you pull […]

When Addiction Enters a Home, Violence Often Follows People like to pretend that addiction is only about substances. They talk about drinking, using, gambling, or smoking as if these behaviours exist in a vacuum. But inside real homes, behind closed doors and drawn curtains, addiction often brings something far more dangerous than the substance itself,  violence. Sometimes it’s loud and […]