About the Author

For over twenty years, Carole Bennett, MA, has been personally enmeshed in the world of addiction and recovery with her own family s alcohol and drug dependency issues. Professionally, her Masters of Clinical Psychology has afforded her work as a treatment counselor for The Salvation Army and the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. Carole is a staff blogger on addiction and recovery for The Huffington Post, has written numerous articles for recovery newspapers and the magazine Al-Anon Faces Alcoholism, and was profiled for KCBS in conjunction with the television movie about Lois Wilson, the co-founder of Al-Anon. Carole s practice in Santa Barbara, California, stretches globally, as she provides personal, in-depth counseling by phone as well as in person.