In the field of addiction, there is sometimes little attention paid to the impact of racial trauma. As a psychotherapist specializing in cultural issues and addictions, I’ve found this neglect often ...

Many of the people I work with appear high-functioning on the outside while privately struggling with trauma, addiction, anxiety, burnout, or emotional overwhelm. Often, these visible struggles are ...

The fourth step in Alcoholics Anonymous requires participants to take a “moral inventory” of the problems their substance use has caused in their lives before asking God to remove their “defects of ...

When my son was born, I made a promise to myself and to him: the cycle of trauma and addiction stops now. I was 12 years sober at the time. The path that got me there had been filled with abuse, shame ...

U.S. Marine Cpl. Dakota Meyer, who once rescued three dozen people during a battle in the war-torn mountains of Afghanistan, was still in his 20s when the trauma came for him. Alcoholism, flashbacks, ...

In September 1983, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fell ill on a flight to Rapid City, South Dakota. The pilot radioed ahead for medics. By dint of his famous name, Kennedy, then 29 and fresh out of law school, ...

Albuquerque is adding 20 young people to a city income program that pays $750 a month and connects them with trauma and ...

Beyond the glittering high-rises of Surfers Paradise and the manicured lawns of the Broadwater Parklands lies a parallel ...