COVID-19 Resources for You Our Sober St. Patrick’s Day Family
 Compiled by:
Patricia A O’Gorman, PhD
Psychologist. Member of the Board of Trustees of SSPD, former Director of the Division of Prevention for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Co-founder of the National Association for Children of Addiction, author of 10 books including: Self-Parenting in the Age of Covid 19: 12 Steps to Boost Your Resilience, (ebook summer 2020)

• Inspirational individual /family: The Great Realization
• Informational: Sheltering at Home With An Addicted Parent
• Understanding the stress you are under: Read Covid-19 Stress Taking Toll on Parent-Child, April 13th, The Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Learning Network.

Preventative measures in response to Covid-19, and the stress it is bringing to families, is having significant impact. And for those families struggling with parental addiction, or those healing from its impact on the family, there are multiple techniques for all parents, but are especially helpful to those living with the added chaos and emotional upheaval when parental addiction is also present.  One way is to create a healthy diet of centering, mindfulness, and exercise for the kids & teens.

Fun Kids/family: 

• ​From Sesamestreet.org/caring Meditation for kids, and parents
•  Belly breathing for kids and parents  
•  8 Tips for Fostering Children’s Self-Regulation and Promoting Creativity

Self-Parenting / Growing your resilience in the face of this challenge:
​12 Steps to Self-Parenting in the Age of Covid 19:

1. ​Step 1 Admitted Our Powerlessness to Change Our Past Self-Parenting in the Age of COVID-19
2. Step 2 Find Comfort in Realizing We Are Never Really Alone Self-Parenting in the Age of COVID-19
3. Step 3 Reaching Out Self-Parenting in the Age of COVID-19
4. Step 4 Accepting How We Learned to Protect Ourselves Self-Parenting in the Age of COVID-19
5. Step 5 Letting Go of Shame:  Self-Parenting in the Age of COVID-19
6.  Step 6 Becoming Perfectly Imperfect: Self-Parenting in the Age of COVID-19
7.  Step 7 Not Taking COVID 19 Personally: A lesson in Humility,  Self-Parenting in the Age of COVID-19
8.  Step 8 Mind Racing and Getting Nowhere: Self-Parenting in the Age of COVID-19
9.  View blog on website www.patriciaogorman.com for additional steps.

Books:

• O’Gorman, P, Diaz, P Healing Trauma Through Self-Parenting​ 
• Oliver-Diaz P, O’Gorman, P 12 Steps to Self-Parenting for Adult Children

Organizations:

• Al-Anon Family Groups
• National Association for  Children of Addiction
• Celebrating Families