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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
I had remarried a couple of years before and was busy at home trying to establish a new consulting business. We had a typical family life with three teenagers at home with lots of distractions and noise; it was often hard to concentrate on my work.
My frustration was showing up in ways that I was barely aware of. One day my wife said to me very calmly, “Neill, it’s bothering the kids how you are snapping at them. If you don’t do something about it, you will end up as a lonely, grouchy old man.”
What hit me was the thought that my family would remember me as a grouch. I could not allow that to be my emotional legacy. The internal shift was instantaneous.
Categories: News, Parenting, Self Growth
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Tags: emotional, emotional legacy, family, family life, legacy, my family
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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
Life is full of events that lead to personal distress. And stress can build upon stress which can lead to marriage problems. If one of you drinks to reduce stress, in time the drinking itself causes stress and becomes a major roadblock to solutions.
Quite naturally, you look around to see what’s causing your distress and the only person there is your spouse, so you instinctively blame him or her for upsetting you.
Categories: Alcoholism and Marriage, Marriage, News
| Tags: addiction, alcohol-abuse, blame, distress, love and respect, Marriage, marriage problems
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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
September is National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month. As I pause and look back over the alcohol-related deaths and injuries of people I’ve known, I feel sad that it is still happening. A driver’s speed with alcohol took our mother away from my three younger brothers and me when I was 16. She left the house. Within ten minutes there was a knock at the door. An uncle uttered the simple words, “Doreen is gone.” Video: “Everbody Hurts.”
Categories: Alcoholism, News
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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
Food cravings lead to consumption. Consumption leads to more food cravings. ‘Tis the season for eating, drinking and otherwise celebrating with others…a great time of enjoyment, love, generosity and generally good feelings…good feelings accompany eating. And…we eat for those good feelings associated with foods we ate in the past…And we end up eating too much.
Categories: News
| Tags: alcohol craving, food cravings, ZAP, ZAP food cravings
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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
We meet people everyday who have recovered or are in recovery from a major life changing event. Some deem themselves as survivors, and some just positively live their lives looking forward to the future (a thriver). What are the differences between a thriver, a survivor and a person in recovery?
Categories: Addiction Recovery
| Tags: a survivor, alcohol, Alcoholics Anonymous, breast cancer, cancer, childhood sexual abuse, in recovery, sexual abuse, Stephen Hawking, survivors
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