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Fit In

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…


Feeble Hints for Fellow Strugglers

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…


Moments

Life is precious! It is something we all know, but for lots of different reasons we many times forget. Often a seemingly insignificant statement or event can solidify for us how precious, fleeting, and frail life can often be.  I Read more…


The Rock That Threatens to Crush You

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…


Finding Fullness on the Other Side of Failure

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…


One Little Fall

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…


Numbers Game

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…


One Little Step

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…


Whispers

When you have lost someone, you love deeply pain ebbs and flows. The past few weeks have been particularly painful. I am reminded of how much I miss my daughter. While talking through some of that I said to my Read more…


The Safest Place

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…