June 4, 2021
This week I was reminded and deeply saddened by the struggles and pain many young people face today. Our children are being eaten alive by addiction, mental health, and fighting the difficulties of coping with life in a world that Read more…
May 21, 2021
The image below is a stairway in my house. It’s the stairway I came charging up to take the last few steps toward an altered world. The image that catapulted me into that world was my daughters lifeless body in Read more…
May 15, 2021
This past week I needed a follow-up to some surgery I had done. It required a one-day in and out visit to the hospital, everything went very well. In the past couple of years, I have had several visits to Read more…
May 7, 2021
There is an old story of a man who got married and often spoke on the topic “How to Raise Children”. The only problem was he and his wife had no children at the time. After having a few children Read more…
April 23, 2021
What is the rock hanging over your head that threatens to crush you? I think if most of us are honest we all can name one rock, maybe many. This is especially relevant in the life of someone fighting an Read more…
April 9, 2021
By far the most heartbreaking thing for me in trying to help my daughter overcome her anxiety, anorexia, and addiction was the mental anguish I know it caused her. In one statement, it all beat her down. One of the Read more…
March 26, 2021
Recently my elderly mom took a little fall. That one mishap triggered a whole series of events, people, surgeries, long stays at rehabilitation, and events due to the surgery itself. For those of us around her that love her, it Read more…
March 19, 2021
It seems that more times than not many of the posts here on We Chose Love focus on addiction. The reality is that there are often many reasons addiction can happen, a common one is mental health issues. Research demonstrates Read more…
March 5, 2021
This is one of my favorite images of our family. For me, it depicts the family I believed and longed for us to be. Not perfectly because nothing in this world is perfect, including people. But, I think I am Read more…
February 14, 2021
I am deeply saddened by the news that Laura Berman and Samuel Chapman lost their son on Sunday, February 7th, 2021 to a fentanyl-laced “Xanax” overdose. What that means is that that pill was probably manufactured in some basement somewhere Read more…
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