A Mother's Journey with her Daughters Addiction
A Mother's Journey with her Daughters Addiction
I see the comment so often when it comes to addiction. “Where were the parents?”. That REALLY infuriates me. It adds to the stigma that is already present and a big reason why so many families keep the struggle to themselves. We feel judged, people cast downward glances, unsure of what to say. Where was I? When you were born, …
I have never fought so hard to write about something in my entire life. I want to say the words so badly and it sounds perfect in my head but actually putting it out into the world is terrifying. The girl that finally got her life together fell back down and fell down hard. I relapsed. It wasn’t …
Montana Rose. Beautiful, mysterious, brilliant and dreamy. The name itself is different. It starts off eclectic and strange and ends romantic and soft. Geographically, Montana is a place far away from our moderate suburb of Philadelphia. The best way to describe Montana Rose was that she was easy to fall in love with. I fell so fiercely in love with her …
It’s easy for us to lose sight of ourselves and our marriage when our children struggle with addiction. Our sole focus becomes saving them, and others, inadvertently, can fall to the wayside. My own marriage was crumbling at one point, everything became toxic and unhealthy. I mean LITERALLY everything. The blame game was in full force for a long time. …
Are you struggling on how to cope with your loved ones addiction? Has your family dynamic been affected? Unsure of what to do next, while you’re loved one is in treatment? What steps do you take if they are currently in active addiction? So much of our focus has been on saving our loved ones who struggle…now it’s time to …
As I’m sitting here on a flight right now to Denver to speak at an event, I’m feeling an enormous mix of emotions. You see, I haven’t written in a while and I miss it so much. This is my heart, where I can personally find some healing by writing, connect with others in spirit and hopefully, help another person …
I had the honor of speaking with a beautiful woman named Tracy, who tragically lost her son to this disease. She is warm hearted, courageous and incredibly brave to share…here is her story. On May 9th 1989 at 3:01 pm Zachary Scott Schellenberg entered the world a perfect 5lbs 15 1/2 oz. Zachary was not born with warning label or sign that …
Ok, I know what you’re thinking….Oh LAWD, another article on enabling! And well, yes, I guess it is….but I’m not going to tell you what to do, I’m certainly not a professional in the medical field, but I was definitely an EXPERT at enabling! Oh yes. I fully admit it, hands down, I KILLED It at enabling. It took me …
For so long, I never understood how my mom stuck by my side. After all of the harm I’ve done, the lies I’ve told, things I’ve stolen…how did she still love and support me? Once I got sober, I slowly began to understand. April 2016, I was about 13 months sober and I received a call from my mom. A …