Relationships often end with a whimper, not a bang. It’s the small, seemingly insignificant efforts that build connection and earn trust. We tend to focus on the big things like faithfulness and honesty. Those things are important. …

Research by Lipari and Van Horn (2014) concluded that roughly eighty percent of those with a substance use disorder (SUD) cite alcohol as the substance. It makes sense then that most people associate sobriety with not drinking. For the sake of this article, I’ll keep my focus there. I have…

According to Internet Live Stats (Internet Live Stats, n.d.), roughly 7.5 billion blog posts are written per day. In four months that amounts to a trillion blog posts. Those numbers discouraged me. I thought that more qualified people had already written everything I’m writing now. I doubted I could bring…

Here are the top-5, ‘must-have’ resume sections, according to Michael Tomaszewski, Career Expert at Zety (Tomaszewski, 2021): Personal Information: 99.85% of resumes. Work Experience: 98.33% Education: 97.25% Skills: 89.81% Summary or Objective: 88.75% Where would addiction recovery fall? Under personal information? Or is it a skill? The point of resumes…

Positivity is a hard skill to master. It requires working to bolster it and build muscle behind it. It means choosing it over and over until it becomes reflexive. Rarely are our paths smooth or straight. We’re faced with setbacks that challenge and discourage us. Progress isn’t always linear. Sometimes…

According to the National Institutes of Health, ten percent of Americans have struggled with substance abuse at some point in their lives (NIH, 2015). That’s over 30 million people. I’m one of them. My own journey to openly discuss matters like addiction and therapy was a bumpy one. But I…

According to the National Institutes of Health, ten percent of Americans have struggled with substance abuse at some point in their lives (NIH, 2015). That’s over 30 million people. I’m one of them. I’ve written this post to promote normalizing discussions around substance abuse and addiction in the workplace. Why…