Category: We Hope This Helps

Lala’s Notes This is the second week of an 8 week series featuring notes I wrote to Lauren over the course of the last year of her life. You can read all about why I started doing this here: The Read more…

Lala’s Notes This is the first week of an 8 week series featuring notes I wrote to Lauren over the course of the last year of her life. You can read all about why I started doing this here: The Read more…

The most popular post of 2024 may reveal something that could cost you years of pain, and sadly some of your most meaningful relationships. Don’t let that happen! Mark Twain said “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you Read more…

Someone I love is addicted, now what?

Lately I have been reminded of storms. Storms are nice to see, from a distance. In some ways they can look beautiful, but, if you are in the middle of one maybe not so much! When I created the above Read more…

That’s a big ask, but that’s my hope for you! Its okay to hope for a brighter tomorrow! As every New Year begins all of us are looking forward with an eye toward “Brighter Days”. That’s not a bad thing! Read more…

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…