Wide Wonder

09/07/2025

Family WellthCare Coaching Services" presents a critical analysis of Mel Robbins' "Let Them" theory, particularly concerning its application within family dynamics, especially those involving trauma or addiction.

Family WellthCare Coaching Services" presents a critical analysis of Mel Robbins' "Let Them" theory, particularly concerning its application within family dy...

09/07/2025

🚨 West Virginia just showed us how NOT to spend opioid settlement funds.

Of the millions meant to repair the harm of the opioid crisis… here’s where it actually went:
52% → Law enforcement (cruisers, drones, ammo, even a shooting range) 🚓🔫
9% → EMS / first responders 🚑
10% → Quick Response Teams
7% → Jail bills ⛓️
…and only 6% → Treatment & recovery. 🧠💔

Let that sink in: more bullets than beds. More jail bills than healing.

This money was supposed to be a once-in-a-generation chance to build recovery infrastructure, fund prevention, and actually support families.

Instead, we doubled down on criminalization, the very system that helped fuel the crisis.

Addiction is not a law enforcement problem. It’s a human problem.

It demands compassion, connection, and care, not cruisers and cages.

West Virginia deserves better. Every community does.

More than half of the opioid settlement dollars spent by localities across West Virginia last fiscal year went to law enforcement.

08/19/2025

After 15+ years working with families in crisis, I can tell you exactly why treatment outcomes plateau:

we're drowning families in knowledge while starving them of wisdom.

Modern parents have access to more child development research, parenting strategies, and expert advice than any generation in history. Yet families are more anxious, disconnected, and overwhelmed than ever.

The problem isn't lack of information, it's the absence of wisdom to transform that information into meaningful relationships.

🧠 Here's what I see repeatedly:
- Parents with advanced degrees who can't connect with their teenagers
- Families implementing "evidence-based" strategies but missing emotional attunement
- Clinicians teaching techniques while family systems remain unchanged
Treatment centers focusing on individual pathology while ignoring relational dynamics

📈 The missing piece? Emotional capital.

In my latest article, I break down why knowledge without wisdom creates what I call "sophisticated confusion", and how the Family WellthCare™ approach transforms information overload into authentic family connection.

🎯 Key insights:
→ Why expert dependency prevents families from developing internal wisdom
→ How to move from strategy addiction to relational attunement
→ The difference between behavior modification and emotional capital building
→ Why families are the "first community" that changes everything

The families that truly heal aren't the smartest ones, they're the wisest ones.

They understand that sustainable change happens through relationship, not just technique.

For clinicians and treatment providers: This is why your outcomes improve when you integrate family systems work that builds emotional capital, not just individual interventions.

For families: This is why focusing on your family as the first community creates ripple effects that literally change the world.

Read the full framework: https://www.familyaddictionrecovery.net/blog/the-family-wellthcaretm-guide-to-wisdom-based-parenting-beyond-knowledge-to-connection
Ready to move beyond knowledge to wisdom in your practice or family? Let's connect. I help both clinicians and families build the emotional attunement that creates lasting transformation.

Discover why parenting knowledge isn't enough and how Family WellthCare™ builds wisdom that creates emotional capital. Learn the difference between information and transformation, move beyond expert dependency, and develop the emotional attunement that tu

08/15/2025

Addiction isn’t a deviation from humanity, it’s a concentrated expression of it.

A mirror that doesn't distort, but magnifies.

And in that reflection, both terrifying and sacred, we are offered the invitation to see ourselves, not as broken or diseased, but as incomplete, in process, in relationship to what we've yet to integrate.
In my work with families, I often say: the problem isn't that your loved one is addicted.

The deeper challenge is that we’ve forgotten how to hold each other through the discomfort of becoming.

Addiction, then, becomes both signal and teacher, revealing where our systems (internal and relational) are out of sync with truth, trust, and connection.

Revolutionizing family recovery. Coaching parents to lead change, build emotional capital, and transform their family system—not just manage a crisis.

08/04/2025

I didn’t know that women struggle with a higher rate of depression and anxiety during menopause. Looking back, it seems obvious, but no one told me.

When I went through hormone changes, my doctor said, “There’s nothing to be done.”
“What do you mean?” I begged.
“It’s just a natural part of life,” she replied.

I was 44, at the height of my career, and yet by 11 a.m. every day I was exhausted, my anxiety climbing higher.

Two OBGYNs and a P*P later, all warning me that HRT carried huge risks, I finally had to dig for myself. What I discovered shocked me: the Women’s Health Initiative study most doctors were relying on was not only inconclusive — it was detrimental to midlife women’s wellbeing.

Here’s what we now know about why so many women experience depression and anxiety at midlife:
• Hormonal shifts
• Sleep disruption
• Body image changes
• The cultural silence around menopause

The good news: With compassionate support and open dialogue, women don’t have to walk through this alone.

This conversation feels a lot like my early work in eating disorder recovery: breaking stigma, speaking truth, and giving women back their voices.

If you, or someone you know, offers legitimate support for midlife women, I’d love to hear from you. Let’s build a stronger conversation together.

07/07/2025

06/20/2025

👀 Most families don’t reach out for help because they’re in denial…

They hesitate because of something deeper—and quieter: 🌀 Resistance.

Not the loud kind. The invisible kind:
✨ “We should be able to handle this.”
✨ “Other families don’t seem to need help.”
✨ “I don’t want to spend on myself.”

Inspired by a brilliant message from the AI world (yes, really), I wrote this blog for every parent who's felt stuck, ashamed, or afraid to ask for support.

🎯 The truth? The best in the world have coaches.
Why shouldn’t families?

In this post, I share why waiting for a crisis isn’t a strategy—and why getting support is one of the most powerful, legacy-building moves a parent can make.

💡This isn’t about fixing. It’s about freeing your family from cycles that keep you in survival mode.

🔗 Read the full blog here: https://www.familyaddictionrecovery.net/blog/june-20th-2025

Even the strongest families hesitate to ask for help. Here’s why—and how choosing support is the smartest move you’ll ever make.

06/13/2025

You’re not broken.
You’re patterned.
And patterns can change—through safety, repetition, and choice.

This is the work of self-leadership, not self-fixing.

06/07/2025

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05/16/2025

Quick, powerful insights you can listen to anytime—no jargon, just real talk for real families.

​Looking for simple, clear ways to understand complex emotional dynamics?
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These short audio lessons give you a fast, digestible overviewof some of the most important principles behind Family WellthCare™ Coaching.

🎧 Think of it as your family’s emotional strategy brief—served podcast-style.
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Each episode breaks down a core concept and helps you connect it to your own family experience. Whether you're driving, walking, or hiding in the laundry room, you can learn something that helps right now.

Listen in on coaching insights and real conversations that challenge the old models. The Family WellthCare™ Audio Library helps you think—and lead—differently.

05/07/2025

"To my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a time when Donald Trump is gone. But your dishonor will remain.”

- Liz Cheney