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If you smoked or drank during a pregnancy and have spent years holding yourself responsible for how your child turned out, you are allowed to put some of that down.
The picture is genuinely tangled. The same traits run in families, so a parent is both more likely to pass something on and more likely to have been…
If telling your doctor or midwife what you are using feels impossible, you can ask someone you already trust to pass it on for you, with your permission and in your words.
People often stay quiet with the very clinician who could help, because saying it out loud feels heavier than the problem does. Handing the message…
Most people can tell you exactly why the thing is a bad idea. The trouble arrives later, when feeling is running high and all that reasoning is nowhere to be found.
So treat it as a doing problem rather than a knowing problem. Decisions made calmly and in advance travel into hard moments much better than…
Repetition is what makes anything stick, and it does not check whether the thing is good for you. That is most of what addiction is.
It is the same machinery that lets somebody pick up a language or a trade, running in the part of the brain built for wanting rather than the part…
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