One of the most powerful outcomes in my 100Pedals journey was the amazing transformation that has occurred in my life as began to reclaim and take back my life while separating myself from my son’s addiction riddled life. For eighteen months, I went through the process many parents dealing with addiction in the family go […]
At one point, going for a ride on my bicycle was simply an act of exercise. It was something I did because physiologically my body wouldn’t allow me to run and all my years, and laps, of competitive swimming made the pool a psychological hell. Riding a bike was my way way of going for […]
It was around this time three years ago that I was in the middle of my 100Day Challenge. That challenge — ride my bike for an hour a day for one hundred consecutive days — was created to help me find strength and clarity in the face of my son’s addiction driven life. I experienced, […]
Traffic signals can be analogous for to our life’s behaviors. The typical traffic light has three colors – green, yellow, red. Three behavioral responses are often associated with those colors — go, caution, stop. With the exception of the yellow light – which elicits a variety of reactive behaviors — we all know the road […]
When the conversation about drugs and addiction comes up, there are some folks out there who really do their best to maintain its dark, judgmental stigma. Their stance that “drugs are a choice” and those who chose to use deserve the consequences of choice. I bet these are the same folks who would love another […]
