viaessence: Halle Berry shared a poignant Instagram post Sunday about her late dad to celebrate Father’s Day, highlighting the power of forgiveness to heal a strained relationship. The John Wick star shared a rare photo of her father, Jerome Jesse Berry, with whom she had been estranged since her childhood. Her parents divorced when she was only 4 […]
During Friday's edition on NewsOne Now, Jerrold Winter, Ph.D, Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of New York at Buffalo spoke with Roland Martin about pain management, opioid dependence and the true meaning of addition.
Intervention: Help a loved one overcome addiction An intervention can motivate someone to seek help for alcohol or drug abuse, compulsive eating, or other addictive behaviors. Discover when to hold one and how to make it successfulIt’s challenging to help a loved one struggling with any type of addiction. Sometimes a direct, heart-to-heart conversation can […]
Everyone needs to be loved. It’s God’s will for us to know and experience His unconditional love and have a personal relationship with Him (see John 3:16 and 1 John 4:16). He created us for acceptance, not rejection, and connection, not separation and abandonment. When we receive God’s love, we can become stable, mature, […]
We’ve seen spiritual life coach Iyanla Vanzant attempt to fix many of our favorite celebrities and this time she’s dealing with a specific topic that’s…
Televangelist Benny Hinn, who late last month announced that he was reconciling with former wife Suzanne Hinn has cleared up the reason for his divorce. It boiled down to addiction. Suzanne Hinn filed the papers in Orange County Superior Court on Feb. 1 2010, citing irreconcilable differences, after more than 30 years of marriage. The […]
You might not want to watch the upcoming PBS special “Soul Food Junkies” (or read this post) on an empty stomach. Airing in January as part of the network’s Independent Lens series, the film from director Byron Hurt serves up such satisfying-yet-not-so-heart friendly soul food staples as fried chicken, ribs, collard greens, mac and cheese, cornbread, peach […]
Mary J. Blige’s admission of being the victim of childhood molestation on her “Behind The Music” has triggered discussion of the connection between molestation and addiction. She survived. Many victims never come out of the downward spiral of addiction. Amy Winehouse’s Death Makes Us Think About Helping The Addicts In Our Lives Victims of rape […]
Mary J. Blige’s admission of being the victim of childhood molestation on her “Behind The Music” has triggered discussion of the connection between molestation and addiction. She survived. Many victims never come out of the downward spiral of addiction. Amy Winehouse’s Death Makes Us Think About Helping The Addicts In Our Lives Victims of rape […]
Shocking video of a 2 year old baby who is addicted to smokes. Parents say baby is healthy and gets mad when they try to take his cigarettes aways!
Shocking video of a 2 year old baby who is addicted to smokes. Parents say baby is healthy and gets mad when they try to take his cigarettes aways!
