Emotion is energy in motion. Moving energy through us, removing blocks can happen through ancient practices and traditions, but there are many ways. I used a very helpful practice called Intuitive Painting. My experience was with a facilitator who guided our group deeper into ourselves through the colors and shapes we chose to paint. I’m not a painter. It is not painting a picture, but painting feelings. Using fat brushes, thin brushes and my favorite, an old credit card to move paint around the page. The thick paper holds a lot of paint. The painter can layer and layer feelings
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Cry Baby I have spent years working with counselors to sort out mine and my families challenges. I never felt like I had any problems or needed this but I went anyway. Talk, talk talk, blah blah blah. One hour 250.00, week after week, month after month, year after year. What did I get from it, Nothing. Talk therapy for me didn’t work. It didn’t work for my family either. Continuing from my post last week, We are all recovering from something, I talked about the work required to heal ourselves from the inside out. Stagnant, (defined as having no
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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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Happy New Year? Hello!  This is the first blog post on my new website www.dearjack.love.  My hope for this effort is to have an honest conversation about love, loss, grief, addiction, recovery and healing.  I can only share my experience and like people, every experience is unique to the individual.  But, we are more the same then we are different.  Different shapes, colors, sizes, beliefs but at the end of the day we love, we grieve, we heal.  Perhaps it is managed in different ways but life includes suffering, it’s part of the package. I have been diligent about sending
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