In the field of addiction, there is sometimes little attention paid to the impact of racial trauma. As a psychotherapist specializing in cultural issues and addictions, I’ve found this neglect often ...

Many of the people I work with appear high-functioning on the outside while privately struggling with trauma, addiction, anxiety, burnout, or emotional overwhelm. Often, these visible struggles are ...

The fourth step in Alcoholics Anonymous requires participants to take a “moral inventory” of the problems their substance use has caused in their lives before asking God to remove their “defects of ...

When my son was born, I made a promise to myself and to him: the cycle of trauma and addiction stops now. I was 12 years sober at the time. The path that got me there had been filled with abuse, shame ...