Some connections between trauma and addiction

By |2023-02-28T14:04:20+00:00February 28th, 2023|addiction and mental health parents, Being a mother of a young adult who struggles with borderline and substance abuse, Mental health, Non-Violent Communication (NVC)|

One of the main reason I never wanted to use drugs and get lost in alcoholism to support the amount of suffering my childhood trauma has left me with when I walked away from an abusive home at age 15 is the hurt that I witnessed that my closed ones went through when a member [...]

The mother of a 19 years old struggling with mental illness and addiction. Her thoughts today

By |2022-03-18T13:04:00+00:00March 17th, 2022|addiction and mental health parents, Awakening, Being a mother of a young adult who struggles with borderline and substance abuse, Border Line Personality Disorder (BPD), Mental health, Non-Violent Communication (NVC)|

To her husband. The one and only thing I need from you today you can not give it to me. An unconditional offering within you that can support us that can support me while I can gently and lovingly guide my daughter into a safe space for her to undergo her recovery. A safe space [...]

Safe# Back on heroin for your 20th

By |2022-03-11T17:38:33+00:00March 11th, 2022|Being a mother of a young adult who struggles with borderline and substance abuse, Border Line Personality Disorder (BPD), Mental health, My daughter, Non-Violent Communication (NVC)|

To start with. Have I ever felt safe? Describing a situation a moment when I felt so safe I knew that nothing could move me away from that place in my mind. That beautiful fresh and sunny morning, at 4 am. One of those unique moment when being light so early didn’t matter. West London, [...]

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