Your loved one’s brain has been rewired by their substance. That part gets talked about. Yours has been rewired too. That part almost never does. Months or years of living in crisis, scanning for signs, bracing for calls, managing what cannot be managed. That is...
Most families come to me asking some version of the same question. How do I get them to stop? It is the wrong question. Not because it does not matter, but because it is not yours to answer. You cannot answer it. And spending your energy there is exactly what keeps...
I get asked this a lot: how long has Tipping Point Recovery been around? Honestly, it depends on which moment you count. There was 2015 and 2016, when I was working on-call in the ER doing overdose interventions, watching families get left in the dark while the...
Somewhere along the way, most families pick up the same belief. “The first step is getting them to admit they’re an addict.” So they wait for that admission. They push for it. They think if they can just get their loved one to say the word out loud,...
A number of years ago, the Chief Medical Officer of a large insurance company called me, she wanted to meet. She had been watching the outcomes of people in my program and wanted to know why the people we were working with were recovering at such a high rate. I...
I was one year sober and working as a case manager in a detox when I met a girl I’ll call Amanda. First, a quick distinction that most families don’t know: detox is not treatment. Detox is medical stabilization, keeping someone safe through withdrawal,...
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