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…


Hurdles On The Journey To Recovery

I recently watched a trailer for a new movie called “Body Brokers”. Other than seeing the trailer I know nothing about the movie except that it is heartbreaking and appalling. It is based on true events, whatever that means, and Read more…


Hang On

I have mentioned before that this year has been the hardest of the 3 years, 6 months, 25 days since I lost my daughter to a carfentanyl laced heroin overdose. Many times I catch myself whispering the words “I miss Read more…


Broken Relationship

Within the name of this weeks post is perhaps the single most important word in the fight to influence your loved one toward overcoming a severe addiction or navigate a chronic mental health issue, “relationship”. Whenever I think of the Read more…


Hollowness

Many times as I journey an unknown course navigating the loss of my daughter I often lock on to a word that describes that particular season of emotion. Lately, as 2020 has whined down and 2021 has begun that word Read more…


Unexpected

reaching for one more breath


Consumed

When someone is fighting an addiction everyone around them becomes drawn into the chaos, but we can do some thing to help …