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Sandy Rivers
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Join date: Dec 30, 2025
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Sandra Rivers is the founder of Authentic Trainings LLC. She draws on her 30+ years of experience in Substance Use Disorder and trauma to create practical, compassionate, and relatable training content for your organization. As a clinician, she noticed that evidence-based practices grounded in pragmatic, person-centered approaches yielded the best client outcomes. She further noted that these same skills led to lower burnout rates among her colleagues.
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Jul 25, 2026 ∙ 6 min
Can Moral Injury Exist in SUD Family Recovery?
Sandy Rivers explores moral injury in recovery: the pain of violating one's values, being harmed by others, and facing impossible choices. She shows how hearing moral grievances without judgment can open a path toward responsibility, acceptance, reconciliation, and change.
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Jul 17, 2026 ∙ 5 min
The Mothers We Blame: Substance Use Disorder, Motherhood, and the Double Standard
Sandy Rivers examines the double standard faced by mothers with substance use disorder. Drawing from family history, clinical experience, and her daughter's recovery, she shows how shame blocks treatment and why women recover better with dignity, allies, relationships, and community.
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Jul 9, 2026 ∙ 5 min
Chronic Stress and Long-Term Health in Children of Substance Use Disorder
Sandy Rivers, MA, CASAC-M, RCP, shares how SUD in the home can force children into adult roles, chronic stress, hypervigilance, health problems, and isolation. Her granddaughter’s story shows why children need practical, relationship-based support long before adulthood.
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