Pause...

Dear readers!
Im sorry to inform you that due to time limitations, I will now pause this blog for some time.
But until we meet again; look through all the 175 posts that are already written. I guarantee that you will find much interesting stuff here!

All the best!
/Carina

Food for thought

Movie Suggestion: "What Maisie Knew"

Wherever you're located in the world, whether it's summer or winter, it always feels good to cuddle up with a great movie and maybe a bowl of pop corn. I would like to dedicate some posts in this blog talking about good movies worth watching, maybe on a cold or rainy day. The movies will focus on addiction and problems in the family, and some of them may be sad, but they may also give us hope and a feeling of comfort and unity with other people's situations.

What Maisie Knew is a powerful, honest and unique film about divorce, seen from the eyes of the 6-year-old Maisie. After the separation between Maisie's mother Susanna and father Beale (played by Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan), the parents selfishly put their own needs in front of their daughter's in order to gain what they want. Susanna is an aging, touring rock star with alcohol- and drug problems, and Beale's a busy, traveling art dealer. In the same time as they fight for the custody of Maisie, they struggle to gain fame, fortune, money or love.

However, the movie's main focus doesn't lay on the parents, but on the little girl left behind, the girl who's stuck in the middle, always fought about or left alone at school with no one to pick her up. It's about how a destructive family can be seen from the eyes of the person always left in the middle, the person who's most of the time is forgotten or neglected: the child.

Inspiring book for relatives!

Once again I would like to recommend one of my favorite books on the subject. Written by authors Robert J. Meyers and Brenda L. Wolf, the book Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading and Threatening focuses on helping relatives to people with an alcohol- or drug addiction. The goal is to improve the relatives current life situation and to guide their loved ones into treatment. 

This is an inspiring and encouraging book which builds on the successful and evidence-based treatment program CRAFT (Community Reinforcement and Family Training), founded by Robert J.Meyers.

Robert J.Meyers is a Research Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of New Mexico's Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addiction. He has dedicated many years developing ways to help relatives to people suffering from alcohol- or drug abuse.  Meyers has traveled world wide in order to help people suffering from the consequences of addiction. 

Read more about CRAFT and Robert J.Meyers here.

I highly recommend Getting Your Loved one Sober to all the relatives who feel as they can't find a way to help themselves or their loved ones!

Buy or read more about Get Your Loved One Sober here. 

Take care!