by Laura | Apr 15, 2016 | Blog
A couple of days ago, Chase, my son, shared his story. In his story, he stated that suicide was an addiction. I wasn’t quite sure if that was true. I could see how it might be physically addicting like other emotional thoughts may be addicting. (Check out the...
by Laura | Mar 20, 2016 | Blog
Whenever I express my grief to a particular friend, she says the same thing to me, “That’s not fair. I’m so sorry.” What does that even mean? Life isn’t fair? I’ve chewed on that statement for some time now trying to understand...
by Laura | Mar 7, 2016 | Blog
*** WARNING *** Children, ages spanning elementary to collage, consider experimental drugs as absolutely acceptable. The problem? The game has changed. When I was growing up, THC levels in marijuana, weed, grass, devils lettuce, was about 5% to 15%. Now? It’s a...
by Laura | Mar 6, 2016 | Blog
I know the pain will never leave my soul. It’s just taken a seat in the back where it quietly waits to be acknowledged from time to time. It deserves a permanent spot just not on center stage. Yet, some moments, the spotlight shines directly on it and everything...
by Laura | Mar 2, 2016 | Blog
When Hannah had her accident, there was no real science about concussions and there certainly wasn’t any solutions based on evidence. You had your major TBI’s where therapy hopefully helped with talking, walking, etc, but nothing for the every day...
