Category: We Hope This Helps

Something we often forget. Addiction and mental health are no respecters of age, wealth, skin color or geography, they will impact and influence any of us at any time. Love is the same, only its impact is highly positive! This Read more…

Some of you may remember the rest of the song “You’ve Got to Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive”. Originally recorded by Jonny Mercer in the 40’s, then made famous by Bing Crosby and many other well-known artists. The Aretha Franklin version is pretty Read more…

Add to that the myriads of issues that hammer us in living life and that just about covers everybody. Connection and community matter to the human being! This week has been a challenge to say the least. A few surprises, Read more…

Addiction is very complicated Hopefully, we have moved past the simplistic idea that addiction is just a choice, it is, but it is so much more than that. At some point, it rewires the brain in ways that show up Read more…

Mark Twain said “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. “ There is a story made famous by Stephen Covey in his epic book “Seven Habits Read more…

A Perfect Day Well, it sure wasn’t yesterday. Have you ever had one? That question may cause you to pause, your mind frantically processing millions of bits of data that hold memories of moments, events, people, problems, victories and much Read more…

In the last post I made was on the Anniversary of Laurens passing. In it I showed and mentioned a treasured image of LaLa scooting around our kitchen, dining room and living room on a little care we had purchased Read more…

A WEEK OF EMOTIONAL UPS AND DOWNS This week was my twins, Evan and Lauren’s (LaLa) Birthday. It was by far the greatest day of by life. Seeing them born and holding them in my arms was life changing! Today Read more…

LOOING FOR THE PAIN In a post where LaLa announced to the world that she was addicted to heroin and working at getting well. You can read the complete post in “A Moment of Great Pride” , she said, “while Read more…

The more we can delay or prevent a person’s use of drugs or alcohol the higher the chances that they will not becomes addicted. A huge problem today is that kids start very young. Starting drug use early dramatically impairs Read more…