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As a suicide survivor, and an adult child of an alcoholic, I know how to survive. I self-taught myself how to weather the storms early on in my life because of our frequent moves. By the time I was in seventh grade,we’d moved from Nebraska to South Dakota, from South Dakota to Colorado and then…

More than once, someone has asked me, “How did you forgive yourself for your father’s suicide?” My short answer is that my battle was not so much with letting myself off the hook. I was only thirteen at the time of his death. I wondered, for a brief amount of time, if I’d done something…

When it comes to making decisions, I am not one who hesitates or wastes any time hemming and hawing. I am not known as an indecisive woman or as one who changes her mind.  Once a decision is made, I stick to it.  Perhaps my ability to condense choices down to either A or B…

My father was an alcoholic and when I was thirteen, he ended his life. According to the experts, I fall under two categories; I am an adult child of an alcoholic as well as an adult child of family dysfunction. I’ve read the list of psychological behaviors listed for both adult children of alcoholics and…