The Truth about PTSD: It Gets Better!
Many people experience a traumatic incident in their lives, yet most people do not develop PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder). Why is it that one person develops PTSD in response to a trauma, while another experiencing a very similar event does not? And how might having untreated PTSD be affecting your life? Most people who experience […]
The Importance of Parental Alignment: Getting Together to Help Your Child
Whatever the constellation of parental figures involved – two-parent couples, divorced parents, step-parents, single parents, extended family – nothing is more important and perhaps nothing is harder to achieve than cooperation. Your ability to influence your child’s behaviors depends on consistency between the adults involved. Imagine trying to work for two bosses who don’t agree […]
Thinking About Sex
When you are trying to change your relationship with substances, one important piece is to think through the ways your relationship with substances is entwined with your relationship to sex. Why? Because for many people, making changes in substance use patterns (either reducing or abstaining) has a direct effect on their sex life and intimate […]
Parents Helping Parents – A Road Less Travelled
As a clinician working with the families who have a child using substances, I get a lot of questions about a lot of things…“should we send her away”? “what is the MATTER with him”? “what did we do wrong”?. The most painful one, which is often unspoken, is…”Do you really get how brutally scary and […]
Thank You!
All of CMC would like to Thank You. If you are one of our clients, we want to Thank You for being brave enough to take on making a change in your life and letting us try to be helpful to you in the time that we are together. If you are a parent, grandparent, […]
