Articles I’ve Written
Trickle Down Effect of Comprehensive Addiction Treatment The Delaware News Journal
United By Addiction The Huffington Post
We Need to Change How we Treat Addiction The Hill
The Stigma of Addiction My Recovery Helper
Coping: A Mother's Point of View The Fix
Double Standard StigmaBreaking the Cycles
Addiction AftershocksMy Recovery Helper
My Son is Dead: Changing the Way We Treat AddictionReal Leaders
My Journey Through Matt's AddictionMy Recovery Helper
Enabling or Loving Too MuchMy Recovery Helper
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grief and how it affects your life
grief and time
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Categories
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- Before and after a trauma or loss
- beware of Boca Raton sober homes
- Boca Raton
- broken heart syndrome
- Broken system for treating addiction
- brother's love
- child loss
- Christmas without my youngest son
- collateral beauty
- compassionate friends
- complicated grief
- Cucumbers becoming pickles
- death of addict
- deception
- denial after son's death
- denial during grief
- denial in order to survive loss
- Depression
- dirty little secrets
- Disbelief during grief
- dog supporting grieving mom
- Drug Addiction
- drug withdraw
- enabling
- faith after loss
- Father’s Day grief
- finding faith after loss
- Finding joy in nature
- finding peace while grieving
- Gods gift
- grief
- grief and sleepless nights
- grief and your brain
- grief feels like aftershocks
- Grief hitting as waves
- grief knows no timeframe
- grief on anniversary of sons death
- grief on Mother's Day
- grief over cancer diagnosis
- grief over sons death
- grief sucks
- grief support
- grief support dog
- grief worsens when battling cancer
- grieving child
- grieving during the holidays
- grieving health
- grieving healthy you,
- grieving life as it used to be
- grieving loss of dog
- grieving loss of son
- grieving mom fights cancer
- grieving mother battling cancer
- grieving mother becomes advocate
- grieving mother on Mother's Day
- grieving mothers journey to self forgiveness
- grieving self
- Grieving son on Mother's Day
- grieving the New Year
- healing during loss
- heart attack
- Heaven
- holidays without a son
- how grief changes your life
- Insurance Industry stigma against addiction
- Joy in my garden
- justice for my son
- lessons learned from grief
- lies addicts tell
- life after child loss
- life after death of addicted son
- life after losses
- Losing Bella is heartbreaking
- losing mother suddenly
- loss
- loss of dreams
- loss of mother
- memorial quilt
- memories of beach house
- mental health
- mental hospital
- missing son on Christmas
- missing son on his birthday
- missing son on Mothers Day
- mistreatment of addiction
- mother & son
- mother becomes addiction advocatr
- mother sues sober home
- mother surviving after sons death
- Mother's Day grief
- mothers anger after loss of son
- mothers broken heart
- mothers grief
- mothers grief on Father's Day
- mothers grief on holidays
- mothers heart break
- nothing normal after loss of child
- now grieving myself
- Opiates
- Opiates
- overdose death
- overprescribing physicians
- parents who lost a child remain nameless
- pill mill doctors
- Rainbow bridge
- Rally for addiction
- Rehab
- rehab and detox
- relationships
- saving an addict
- saving my son
- saving your sanity
- secrets and lies
- seeking forgiveness
- self forgiveness
- shared grief
- sober living
- son loss
- son's funeral
- sons birthday in heaven
- sons memorial garden
- Son’s birthday
- stages of grief
- Story of Mary and Jesus
- stress after son'd death
- stress on marriage
- struggling after child loss
- struggling with faith after child loss
- surviving child loss
- surviving loss
- surviving Mother's Day after loss of child
- Surviving the first year of loss
- surviving the holidays after loss
- Telling the truth about son's addiction
- The elephant in the room
- the mother of an addict trying to survive
- time does nothing to lessen grief
- tough love
- trauma and cancer
- trauma changes you
- trauma patient
- Uncategorized
- using denial to survive loss
- visiting sons garden
- visiting the past
- Waves as grief
- wedding planning
- working with addiction
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