Families dealing with addiction often say the same thing, we just want peace. The strange part is that when peace finally shows up, many of those families do not know what to do with it. They become restless. They start scanning for the next problem. They poke at old wounds. They trigger fights over small …
Relapse Starts in the Mind Families often treat relapse as the moment someone drinks or uses again. Clinically and practically, the relapse started earlier, when thinking shifted. It started when the person began bargaining with themselves, just one night, just to take the edge off, just to sleep, just to feel normal, just to be …
South Africa is a place of contrast. Beauty and brutality coexist in the same streets. Opportunity and desperation sit side by side. Families build futures in environments shaped by uncertainty and stress. Under these conditions addiction does not appear as a mystery. It appears as a response to a life that feels overwhelming. When a …
