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Give freely of what you find and join us. We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the road to Road of Happy Destiny.May God...

Don’t let the past steal your present. Terri Guillemets September has been dedicated as National Recovery Month with all its great goals to help those caught in the grips of the disease of addiction. This year’s theme has been...

Eggshells. Ever feel like you are walking on them? During the years my family grappled with addiction issues I felt like 1000’s of broken eggshells entirely composed where I walked with my family.  And to be perfectly honest: where...

“The epic story of tomorrow can’t be written if it ends today.” Unknown A silver lining to the pandemic is that people have become increasingly comfortable with talking about mental health issues. As with other mental health challenges, suicide...

Those who have died of overdose are not nameless, faceless statistics of the epidemic of the disease of substance use disorder.  They are people whose lives ended with heartbreak. They were someone’s son, daughter, sister, brother, grandchild, father, mother,...

Hurricane Henri’s roar through New England was a bit of a bumpy ride.  It could have been a lot worse. The takeaway from the storm is the Girl Scout motto: Be Prepared. In the days before Henri hit my husband...

Regret. A completely useless emotion. But it can be a real contender to knock out our peace of mind in the family systems illness of addiction. Regret can drive our thoughts like a hamster wheel with all the would haves...

One of the greatest gifts my mother ever gave to me was her 12-Step daily devotional book that she read every morning for 40 years. My mother got the book in August 1975 when she began a 12-Step way...

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. Babe Ruth There was a point in our family’s ongoing struggle with the systems illness of addiction that everything was going sideways. Our son had been to treatment and...

Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill Winston Churchill knew what he was talking about. Throughout Britain’s darkest days under siege by Nazi Germany during World War II,...