Month: November 2025

Addiction Rarely Starts With a Substance People love to believe addiction begins the moment someone takes their first drink, smokes their first joint, places their first bet, or tries their first pill. But addiction almost never starts with the substance. It starts long before that, inside families, inside childhood memories, inside emotional patterns people don’t […]

The Home Kids Grow Up In When people talk about addiction, they usually focus on the person using, their behaviour, their denial, their treatment options, their chaos. But inside the home, the people most deeply affected are often the quietest,  the children. Kids living with an addicted parent experience emotional climates that adults would struggle […]

When Addiction Rewrites the Truth Gaslighting is one of the most damaging behaviours that show up in addicted households, not because people deliberately set out to manipulate their families, but because addiction demands secrecy, denial, distortion, and emotional control to survive. Addiction cannot thrive in honesty, so it bends reality. It bends conversations. It bends […]