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Support from other parents in recovery can enhance your parenting skills, answer questions about parenting that come up in the context of recovery and help alleviate the strain your family may experience in the transitions from active addiction to recovery and through the stages of long-term recovery.
- Practice Self-Compassion and Forgiveness
- Attend Your Mental Health Appointments
- Involve Your Children in Recovery Activities
- Respond Proactively to Relapse Triggers
In the midst of addiction, people frequently make choices they regret later. This can include active decisions like spending all their money on substances, or passive decisions like not preparing food regularly. Choices extend past the individual though. Addiction is afamily disease. A mother’s substance use disorder symptoms profoundly impact thei...
As a caretaker, there’s a natural urge to put the care receiver before everything else. Society reinforces this, lifting the self-sacrificing image as the pinnacle of good parenting. It’s contrary to the truth though. The cliche metaphor is right; you can’t pour from an empty cup. You’re less equipped to parent your children when you ignore self-ca...
Recovery and motherhood don’t need to be mutually exclusive. Mothers shouldn’t make children responsible for their sobriety, but they don’t need to hide their illness either. They can discuss addiction in a way that is appropriate to their child’s age level. After this, families can practice holistic activities together. Moms can explain the benefi...
Moms in recovery need to remember that they aren’t powerless. A person new to recovery may still have communication with friends who use substances. They can proactively set boundaries by requesting that substances not be used or discussed around them. They can help plan sober “mom’s night out” evenings. When their child is invited to a birthday pa...
Family Questions is a fun activity that’s great for breaking the ice in family therapy. Each family member will answer a question about themselves, and then guess how other family members will answer.
1. Write each of your family member’s names on the answer sheet, above the columns. 2. When asked a question, write your own answer, as well as your best guess for each family member's answer. Activity Questions. 1. What is everyone's favorite movie or television series? 2. Who is a morning or night person? 3. Who is messy and who is neat? 4.
Introducing Tougher Together - a weekly online support group for moms on a recovery journey, led by recovery coaches who are also moms in recovery. Join us to meet other moms like you, share your triumphs and challenges in both motherhood and recovery.
I am a terrible person, and I’m a terrible mother. As one of the Therapeutic Child Care Coordinators at Right Side Up, these are the clients I work with—mothers in recovery who have internalized unfair and untrue biases about themselves and their illness.
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Mothering from the Inside Out is a parenting intervention developed specifically for mothers who are in recovery from addiction or who have experienced other adversities. Find out about our research questions, methods, and results of our decades of research.
