Last week, Brandy Kingman had the pleasure of bringing back Ken Seeley from A&E’s hit show Intervention to participate in a Facebook Live video. In this engaging episode, Ken not only discusses the intervention process but also provides tips to assist families on how to get their loved ones into addiction treatment. B: In...
Read MoreWe recently sat with St. Christopher’s COO, Brandy Klingman, LMSW, BACS, and Zach Knippenberg, BSW, RAC, to discuss addiction and how it affects family members. The following is are excerpts from that conversation. What is addiction? Zach: There is a ton of stigma associated with the word addiction. You think of someone really down on...
Read MoreWe felt it was important to have a conversation about how difficult the treatment industry is to navigate. We’d like to address common concerns and help family members learn how to navigate it. We want families to connect with ethical treatment centers and to help them identify the good, bad and ugly in the...
Read MoreWe sat with St. Christopher’s COO, Brandy Klingman, LMSW, BACS, to get her opinion on this. Does someone need to hit bottom in order to recover? We don’t believe that people need to hit rock bottom anymore. The pivotal moment is when they want help. We are seeing that rock bottom is often times death,...
Read MoreHe woke up this morning with a clear mind, most of the time he had a hangover or felt sick. On days when he wasn’t sick, he always ran late and didn’t seem to care about much but today he was ready to face the day. He seemed thankful for another chance, one may even...
Read MoreWe sat with St. Christopher’s COO, Brandy Klingman, LMSW, BACS, to get her opinion on this. What is a healthy way to detach and set boundaries? I think it’s a good idea to detach in a way so that your life doesn’t depend on this other person. That your happiness, security, spiritual health, psychological health...
Read MoreWe sat with St. Christopher’s COO, Brandy Klingman, LMSW, BACS, to get her advice on this topic. Can a relationship or a marriage survive after years of addiction? I believe that most things can be healed when people want to heal them. I have been blessed as a therapist to be with people in...
Read MoreWe sat with St. Christopher’s COO, Brandy Klingman, LMSW, BACS, to get her advice on this topic. How do we cope with the pain of addiction each day and live with our loved one? The key is a lot of support. We know that sometimes addiction lives within secrecy and within division of people –...
Read MoreWe sat with St. Christopher’s COO, Brandy Klingman, LMSW, BACS, to ask the following questions about substance use disorder. How can we tell if our loved one has been using substances? I think there are few things. One is, we always have a gut instinct about things and sometimes trusting our gut is really...
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