September 18, 2020
They all start here! Eager to learn and grow, filled with joy, curiosity, delight, adventure, openness, trusting, happiness, and wonder. As often happens – always happens – the storm clouds of life come, and based on temperament, life experience, personality, Read more…
September 11, 2020
Today’s title is an important question. There are many answers to it, most of which are true, they also can be helpful for us in discovering how we can understand, and help our loved one. I would like to talk Read more…
September 4, 2020
This past week was a challenging week for my wife and I. It was a time when we both missed Lauren quite a bit. That happens! As each year passes the wound of your loss begins to heal but the Read more…
August 28, 2020
I remember when I was a small child in the 60’s a toy was introduced called “Slip’ n Slide”. You can see by the image to the right that it was a lot of fun. I loved it, when we Read more…
August 21, 2020
The American Medical Association recently said: “The AMA is greatly concerned by an increasing number of reports from national, state and local media suggesting increases in opioid-related mortality—particularly from illicitly manufactured fentanyl and fentanyl analogs. More than 40 states have Read more…
August 14, 2020
The featured image this week is from my favorite photographer, Brooke Shaden. I find her work thought provoking, challenging and often inspiring. Her work also helps me process the greatest challenge I have, and hope I ever will, face, the Read more…
August 7, 2020
Last week an old friend of mine asked an especially important question. She asked: “How do you continue to love the addict while, at the same time, setting boundaries so that you don’t end up enabling them or being destroyed Read more…
July 31, 2020
I received a few very encouraging notes this week from different people. I was grateful, they arrived at just the right moment. One of them highlighted a truth regarding the philosophy of We Chose Love. It is not easily received Read more…
July 24, 2020
“The opposite of addiction isn’t sobriety. It’s connection. It’s all I can offer. It’s all that will help him in the end. If you are alone, you cannot escape addiction. If you are loved, you have a chance. For a Read more…
July 10, 2020
This past weekend I heard three heartbreaking stories of three people I do not know. Two of them reached notable accomplishments in the world of social media on a platform called “twitch”. Twitch is a social media platform that gained Read more…
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