As I was riding my bike along the Natchez Trace Parkway between Florence, AL and Tupelo, MS, I found myself thinking about my son. He is going to be thirty in a few months. He has been battling his heroin addiction for around ten years. As I am currently on the road with the Cycling […]
In last week’s blog, I reflected on the pressure parents put on themselves to maintain the perception everything is perfect in their home by referencing the fictitious television family, Ozzie and Harriet, as some faux standard of the perfect family dynamic. Today, every family is struggling with something. The real pressure is based on the […]
One only need to look at any of the trending barometers to know the perfect family is a television fantasy. Examine the increasing rates of divorce, unemployment and job displacement, bankruptcies, all forms of addiction, suicide, infidelity, mental health and prescription drug usage. Does anyone honestly believe every family doesn’t have something going on inside […]
http://traffic.libsyn.com/theaddictionconversation/Looking_forward_010217.mp3 “No matter how dark the present appears, I choose to live for the promise of the future…” This was the first quote I celebrated as I completed my first 100Pedals bike ride on January 1, 2011. It has been six years since I made the decision that my life, despite the chaos of my […]
http://traffic.libsyn.com/theaddictionconversation/Managing_what_you_control.mp3 Nothing disrupts or interrupts peace or joy more than adversity. Life would be so much simpler and easier if we just didn’t have to deal with conflict. In the world of a parent of child with substance abuse issues, the disruptions can often become overwhelming. The other day I was coaching a parent about […]
