Developing my website, I decided to have a resource section to provide the interested with information I found and continue to find in my search for helpful tools. The whole website is designed to be a resource actually. But what I realized was, the books, articles and websites for recovery are similar if not the same as healing. Recovery and healing are the same and it starts from the inside.   We are all recovering from something. In my case, I’m recovering from grief, which I see no end in sight. In Jack’s case, he was recovering from addiction. I
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I can’t stay quiet I do not know how often one writes a blog, and I don’t want to be annoying, but people/kids are dying everyday, so I can’t stay quiet. I have been contacted by mothers who have addicted kids (young adults) and mothers who have lost children due to the disease and opioid overdose. Having been on both sides of this tragic situation, I can’t stay quiet. This is life or death. I wish I could do more. I just listen and hold space as these stories pour in. I am having coffee tomorrow with a woman who lost
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Team Jack, let’s do this! “Alone we are a drop, together we are an ocean”   64,000 Americans died of opioid overdose in 2016. Following posting my new website www.dearjack.love yesterday I had a huge outreach of support and love. But the alarming thing is, friends from near and far reached out with personal messages, texts and calls to share their experience with opioid addiction in their lives. Desperate mothers and friends trying to find solutions, feeling alone in their battle.   The most important thing I learned is that no two people are the same. The one treatment for
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