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About Magnolia Beginnings

Just when you think you have it all down it changes again or... “Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.” ― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

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If You Love Me made it to the Best Addiction Books of All Time I’m happy to announce that my book, “If You Love Me: A Mother’s Journey Through Her Daughter’s Opioid Addiction”, made it to BookAuthority’s Best Addiction Books of … Continue reading

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A Love Note To Mothers on Mother’s Day

Dear Mothers, When my youngest daughter was actively using heroin, the holidays were difficult. Mother’s Day was, by far, the prize winner. I spent the day dwelling on the possibility that I might never have a Mother’s Day with all … Continue reading

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I Am Never Tired.

Originally posted on Heroin Heroine:
I am never tired. I am consumed by the what-ifs. A 100 pound mother in boxing gloves with starry eyeteeth. You can not tell me to let it die. I will not let it die.…

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Music and Addiction

  Can They Help Recovering Addicts? Michelle Peterson, Founder of Recoverypride.org What is Music Therapy? Music is powerful. It can change a person’s mood and provoke the best and worst memories. The power of music is so potent that therapists … Continue reading

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The Cat Is Out Of The Bag- Part 1

Originally posted on The Addict In My Basement:
The cat is out of the bag. The. Cat. Is. Out. Of. The. Bag. I wasn’t saying anything to anyone, or posted publicly because, well, you know, superstitious. But, someone, Ms. Fancy…

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The Sad and Suffering

Originally posted on My Life In The Middle Ages:
“It says here that less than a year ago you tried to hang yourself?” I’m asking this of a young woman, not yet thirty, as part of her intake assessment to…

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Letting Go — Magnolia Beginnings

I resolve to take back the remnants of my life, and then it happens- in the shifting swiftness of everything, cyclone-like, pulling me into the center of the chaos without a chance to grasp on to myself- I plummet, head-first, … Continue reading

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Magnolia, Process, and a Flawed System

Originally posted on The Addict In My Basement:
? This is the story of one young man’s willingness to get help, and the three women with the determination to find him that help. Picture it: The year was 2017, the…

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MEGYN KELLY JUN 25 2017, 7:00 PM ETHow to Find a Good Drug Treatment Program and Avoid the Bad Onesby LISA RIORDAN SEVILLE, HANNAH RAPPLEYE and ANNA R. SCHECTER

There’s also a vibrant network of online groups have also cropped up, like those run by the nonprofit Magnolia New Beginnings. Founder Maureen Cavanagh said members in the closed groups are vetted, so once they’re inside, they can trust that … Continue reading

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Sitting with Grief and Hope

So many people in my circle will say in anger “They will never know how it feels until it happens to them!” We are talking about the loss of our loved ones to addiction, the struggle that we had fighting … Continue reading

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