"Sometimes in life you are lucky enough to meet people who blow your mind with their intelligence, kindness, inner beauty and general amazingness - and Annina is one of these people. You won't be disappointed!"

Danielle Woodcock (MSW, RSW)

 
#Repost @nytimes ・・・ Of the estimated 2.1 million Americans currently in the grip of #opioid addiction, many are women of childbearing age. Experts estimate that a baby with an opioid-withdrawal condition called neonatal abstinence syndrome is born in the U.S. every 15 minutes. Some of those babies are born to mothers who go into treatment when they’re pregnant. The standard of care for a pregnant women addicted to opioids is treatment with the opioid-replacement drug methadone, or a newer drug called buprenorphine. But a fetus adapted to them is still at risk for withdrawal after birth. While on assignment for @nytmag, @littlebrownmushroom took this photo of Elizabeth, 26, and her daughter. Elizabeth had been energized and secretive in the early years of her addiction. She was addicted to Percocet and ultimately began injecting heroin. She attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, but she relapsed on heroin 3 times. When she became pregnant, she was taking Percocet. She wanted to taper off the pills. But she couldn’t do it without going into withdrawal, so in her 7th month of pregnancy, she returned to #methadone. When the baby arrived in June, she began showing signs of withdrawal. “We started bawling our eyes out,” Elizabeth told @nytmag. What kind of life does she want for her daughter? “The opposite of mine.” Visit the link in our profile to read more.
My May online support group „Eating, So What?!“ will start tomorrow! It’s ideal for anyone struggling with their body image, intrusive thoughts around food and weight loss, dieting, binge eating, overexercising, or emotional eating. Registered Dietitian @joseesovinskyrd will co-facilitate our third session. You can find out more about it via: substanceusecounselling.com/online-support-group Hope to see you there!! 💗
#Repost from @jennifer_rollin who has recently published a new training on breaking free from anorexia (you can find it through the link in her bio!) 💗💗💗 ・・・ Bodies are meant to change over time, and that’s perfectly ok.* * Instead of blaming your body when something doesn’t fit-get some awesome new clothes to fit the body that you have RIGHT NOW.* * You were not put on this earth to spend all of your precious time trying to shrink yourself down. * You deserve to take up all of the space that you need in this world. 🙌🏻 * Image found via @bodyposipanda
Hello and welcome to all those who are new to my feed! 😜 I just quickly wanted to point out that I have a bunch of *free* materials available for you on my homepage (substanceusecounselling.com/free), including webinars, an email mini course on self-care, a workbook about substance use, and a newsletter that I send out about once a week. The next issue will be entitled: “What If Treatment Doesn’t Work?”. You can sign up for it via substanceusecounselling.com/newsletter 💌 Once a month, I mail out a separate newsletter edition for fellow professionals, too (same URL to sign up). 🤓 Do feel free to take a look around my homepage and grab as many freebies as you like! 💗
How does your drinking compare to that of other women in Canada? Personally, I’m part of the 58% to the right. (Sorry for the blurry pic, took a screenshot of an info graphic over @camhnews!)
Trying to fight an eating disorder or an addiction on your own is so, so much harder than when you have supports in place. And while I believe that ideally, we should all get 100% effective supports, even supports that are only 25% effective are better than none... Certainly at least until we find better ones. The sad truth is - there is no magic trick! No matter what treatment approach(es) you decide to go with, it will still be *you* who will do all the work. Whether it is regarding meals, quitting exercising or attending counseling sessions and meetings: regularity is key and no one can eat or go there for you. It’s got to be you, and you can do it. ✌️ Don’t give up if treatment isn’t immediately all that you had hoped for. It might take a little time to find your recovery groove, but it will be worth it. 🎧
#Repost @nytimes ・・・ In 2015, when @nycmayor Bill de Blasio and @nycfirstlady Chirlane McCray unveiled New York City’s plan to battle opioid-related deaths, they said that from that day on, New Yorkers would be able to get the overdose-reversing drug naloxone at participating pharmacies without a prescription. But 3 years later, @nytimes found that only about a third of the 720 pharmacies on the city’s list had it and would dispense it without a prescription. Beth Kennedy, who’s pictured here, started keeping naloxone on hand when her daughter was addicted to painkillers and heroin. When Beth recently visited her neighborhood pharmacy — a @riteaid in Rockaway Park, Queens, on the city’s list — a pharmacist told her that her insurance would not cover naloxone and that it would cost $150. Pharmacy workers later said it was “probably better” to have a prescription in the patient’s name if they were going to order it. @ryanchristopherjones photographed Beth hugging her daughter after a meeting at a drug-treatment program. After queries from @nytimes, @riteaid, @cvspharmacy and @walgreens confirmed that naloxone was available without a prescription at all locations in New York and said they were reviewing procedures with personnel at all NYC locations. Visit the link in our profile to read more.
This week, allowing yourself the possibility of options was a recurring theme with my clients. Whether in relation to food, jobs, partners, vacations - there is never just one right way to do things! Life is nuanced, and learning how to recognize options allows us to make one of many right choices, even when the most helpful choice turns out to be „maybe“. 😉