THE BATTLE FOR SELF-CARE
During the years my son’s choices were dominated by substance use disorder every day felt like a battlefield right in the middle of my home. Uncertainty, anxiety, depression, anger and sadness were pretty much a constant in the daily...
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Your Story Is Not A Waste – Thursday Thought
Your story is not a waste. Every family faced with the disease of substance abuse disorder has a story to tell about their experience. And that story is wholly valuable. The stigma and shame associated with the disease can...
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Your Story Is Not A Waste
Your story is not a waste. Not one word of it. It is a springboard of recovery wisdom for yourself and for others. All of us have a story to share about our struggle with the family systems disease...
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The Butterfly Effect: Guidance for Families – Thursday Thought
The theory of the Butterfly Effect provides guidance for families struggling with an addiction crisis. The Butterfly Effect says that tiny changes in a complex system can eventually spin out to generate big, long- range changes with the question: Can the flapping of...
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The Butterfly Effect: Guidance for Families
When your family is tied to the turbulence of addiction crisis you know one thing for damn sure: something has got to change. There were no overnight cures for my family when our son was in the midst of an addiction...
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January 1st – A Date with Destiny – Thursday Thought
With the start of a new year and a new decade we can feel renewed in our desire to seek recovery solutions for our family – as addiction is a disease that impacts an entire family system. The work...
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January 1st – A Date with Destiny
January 1st carries a powerful reset button in our collective consciousness as the date to begin to do life better. Everyone has resolutions to make … and keep. Lose the weight. Dump that boyfriend/girlfriend. Cut up those credit cards. Join the gym. January 1st always carried a date with destiny for me during the years our son...
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Christmas Greetings
Every wish and prayer for peace and happiness this Christmas season and every day! Contact Nancy For information and guidance for help and resources for you or your loved one please email: info@nancyvericker.com Nancy is co-author of Unchained: Our...
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The Gift of the Thin Places – Thursday Thought
Many families struggling with an addiction crisis find the holiday season, with its expectation of homecomings and happiness, to be very painful. We need to know that even in the midst of our challenge, divinely inspired happenings can randomly...
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The Gift of the Thin Places
The Gift of the Thin Places During the Christmas seasons when my son was in radioactive active addiction, I just wanted the calendar to read: JANUARY 2ND. The whole world seemed to be in a “heaven and nature sing” kind...
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