The breaking point came one day when Lauren Wilson was arguing with her husband. His drinking had intensified, and one day they were bickering and fighting. “And I just noticed that he was kind of looking right through me,” Lauren told show host Ivona Bhahda, in Episode 11 of the First Responder Families ... Read More
Building Balance: Understanding Mental Health as a Lifelong Practice
So much of recovery from substance use and mental health disorders happens after inpatient treatment, as individuals strive to build healthy practices in the succeeding days, weeks, months, and years. This aftercare period is critical for the individual, but also for their close loved one(s), according to FHE Health’s ... Read More
From Caretaking to Empowerment: Redefining Codependency
The term “codependency” has been around for decades and become a bit of a buzzword in the world of behavioral health — particularly as it relates to families affected by addiction and substance abuse. But new findings in neuroscience and developmental neuroscience, the treatment of trauma, and human behavior have ... Read More
Finding Calm Through Movement: Yoga for First Responders
Long before she founded Yoga for First Responders, Olivia Mead was a student in New York City. Every day on the way to school she passed the Midtown fire station, where she’d exchange high fives with the firefighters there. Many of those same firefighters would die in the rubble of the Twin Towers. Yoga … for First ... Read More
