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Coach and counselor Belinda Morey writes about her Healing run from as a child in an alcoholic and dysfunctional family, through addiction, and finally to sobriety and independence.

May 20, 2026 Josh Bennett-Johnson, Author, LADC-II, and Owner of JBJ Counseling Tom O'Connor, Publisher I met Larry in 2009. He was my assigned treatment counselor when I arrived, and thank goodness they gave me to Larry, because the other counselor in the house where I was assigned was. Just, no. Larry was a middle-aged gay man, in recovery himself for 30+ years, and he had worked in the counselor's role for decades. In the end, it was prostate cancer that took him from u

In order to heal and recovery from the challenges of a dysfunctional family, one must build resilience. Author Tom O'Connor uses his lived experience as a child of an alcoholic to describe how running helped him build that resilience.

Author, editor, and publisher Tom O'Connor introduces his new blog, Running for Healing, now on his Discover Your Adult Child website.