In the Grip
A child’s addiction. A family’s journey.
My hope is that telling this part of our story will open a conversation with someone who needs it. My words here are real, written through pain but told so we can start to unshackle ourselves from the stigma of addiction.
The most important thing to know is you're not on this path alone. There are thousands of people exactly where you are and if we put our voices together we can help each other through.
#miracle
On one of the first afternoons I drove home from the hospital, I was in a daze at the wheel trying to process everything, which was still so difficult. I was at a red light and looked out my window to see an incredible rainbow bright in the dark-ish spring sky. It felt like a colorful hug from above and it was the first time I sensed a tinge of solid hope that things might turn out ok. There was nothing logical to indicate that things could possibly turn out ok, but I knew it was a sign that I wasn't alone, and neither was John.