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HOPE IS FRAGILE; FEAR IS POWERFUL by Libby Cataldi
A mother wrote to me: I’m giving up on prayer, I’m afraid. Recovery was going well, I thought. My son was making meetings, new job he likes, nice girlfriend. I was beginning to trust and hope. In the last week, money taken from … Continue reading
Thank you @bookauthority
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
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
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.…
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
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…
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…
Chasing the Butterfly
From Each Day A New Beginning, July 19: ‘At fifteen, life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.’—Maya Angelou “We had to surrender to a power greater … Continue reading
THE CONFOUNDING NATURE OF ADDICTION
Dr. MacAfee told me, When families are in the throes of struggling with addiction, they do what they know best: They help and support the addict. Families, however, do not anticipate that the nature of addiction is one of exploitation, … Continue reading
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