New Guest Post at Pat Moore Foundation

I have a new post up Pat Moore's site:  "The Five Steps of Parenting an Addict".  If you read it, please leave a comment on their site.  Its about how the stages of parenting an Addict are similar to the classic Five Steps Of Grief:

Denial
Anger
Bargaining (I changed it to "Fixing")
Depression
Acceptance

Thanks everyone.  I've been reading your blogs and sometimes just want to sit and cry because there's so much pain associated with this "journey".  It professional terms:  it sucks, a lot.

Peace, Hope and Love, Barbara

New Guest Post at Pat Moore Foundation

Part Two of my last post is now up, you can read it here:  The Disease Aspect of Addiction and Alcoholism.


If you read it, please leave a comment on their site to let them know.  You can comment anonymously if you prefer.

Guest Post on Pat Moore Foundation

I have another guest post up at The Pat Moore Foundation.  This one is called "The Disease Aspect of Addiction and Alcoholism, Part One."  If you check it out, please leave comments over there.

In personal news:  Had my first day of on the new job today.  I like it, once I learn "who's who" I think I'll be able to do a good job.  I work M/W/F so have tomorrow off to catch up on all your blogs ... I hate getting behind!

Peace, Hope and Love, Barbara

Guest Blogger

I was honored to write a guest post for one of the most prominent and successful drug treatment centers in Southern California, The Pat Moore Foundation.

You can check out their website here and here is a link to the article I wrote.

They said some nice things about me which I appreciate.

Meanwhile, I am not doing well at all today so I hope the article I wrote doesn't make it sound like I have "arrived" and have it all figured out or that it gets easy as time goes by.  As we all know, it doesn't.  It does get easier as we learn how to deal with it, but it never gets easy.

Big day in court tomorrow.  This time we will have some sort of closure one way or the other.  I am nervous.  I'll let you know what happens.

Peace, Hope and Love, Barbara