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Decisions in Recovery

In “Fabled Truths and Family Lies,” published in the Meadowlark Summer 2010 newsletter, I wrote about a client’s experience with childhood sexual and emotional abuse, her skewed self-doubt, and her perceptions surrounding that abuse in her family of origin. Specifically, I addressed the challenges that arose for Leah as… Read More

The History of Addiction

By Claudia Black, Ph.D., MSW Note: This article was originally published in the Spring 2006 edition of Cutting Edge, the online newsletter of The Meadows. Like every aspect of mankind, addiction has its history. Long before anyone understood the core problems of addiction, people became hooked on substances. The… Read More