September - 2016

Overcoming Early Life Trauma, Three Decades of Substance-Use-Disorder of Family Members, and Creating a New and Fulfilling Life - Unknown Artist

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Please find insight, inspiration and compassion for yourself and loved one as you listen to my family story, my personal journey as a family member who went through 3 decades of struggling with Substance-Use-Disorder, having two of three daughters addicted to heroin and other drugs, lost my brother to IV drug use, was married and divorced to men who suffered from addiction and now find so much joy in recovery and helping other parents and family members become their loved ones best chance at recovery and find their joy again!

It's not easy being a heroin addict

This is from a blog and I found it so interesting... Hope you find it so as well. It’s Not Easy Being A Heroin Addict https://peglud.wordpress.com Posted on November 22, 2009. Filed under: addiction | Tags: abscesses, addiction, heroin . . . but it seems to be something at which my daughter is succeeding. She’s ‘making it’ in the drug world. You have to cut yourself off from family and friends and any ‘help’ or support; you have to learn how to use needles, find veins, inje

Let Love Be Your Strength

"When Life gets tough, let love be your strength, your sword, your wings." ~ Andrea Arlington The Thing Is "To love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of gr