Keep Your Resolve: Help From A Deep Bench of Recovery Professionals
It’s a fact that the month January invites us to make resolutions. But keeping them can be a whole different story. Studies have shown well-intentioned commitments start to unravel by the second Friday of January. Uh oh… As family members...
Read moreNANCY VERICKER AS A GUEST SPEAKER AT THE SCARSDALE WOMEN’S CLUB
Thank you to the Scarsdale Women’s Club for inviting me to share our family’s story of Hope in Recovery, as part of their Literature Club Day. The Women’s Club has a very dear place our family’s heart, and it...
Read moreGive Yourself Credit: Trying Counts!
An ongoing family addiction crisis can feel like you are constantly living on high alert in an emergency zone. Alarm bells are sounding all around you because substance use disorder is a disease that impacts an entire family system. ...
Read moreA New Year’s Resolution: Remember Who You Are
Chapter 23: THE PRODIGAL SON’S MOM AND DAD Excerpted from Unchained: Our Family’s Addiction Mess Is Our Message NANCY On New Year’s Day I ran into Evelyn, my first newspaper editor, at an event. She was bureau chief in an...
Read moreThe Gift of Hope at Christmas: Angels with Skin On
Throughout these last few weeks I’ve heard it said that it might be good, if we could just reschedule the holidays for some time around May 1st. An interesting idea. I guess we’d have to bring in a snowmaking...
Read moreIn the Midst of Jingle, Jingle, Jingle You Are Not Alone
This season of Peace on Earth can feel like one big, fat contradiction. A Joy to the World outlook doesn’t easily flow when we are all rowing fast and furiously to stay afloat in the rough waters of some very real challenges. And for...
Read moreTraveling Rules of the Holiday Road – Featured on MomPower.org
So happy to be part of this initative to help Moms facing the struggle of substance use disorder in their families. Many thanks to Sandy Swenson, founder of MomPower. Please check out Sandy’s new book, “Just Dandy: Living With...
Read moreWaiting With Hope
This is the start of the season of Advent in many faith traditions. It is a time of intentional waiting. The practice of lighting four candles placed in an evergreen wreath against the backdrop of a dark winter night underscores...
Read moreGratitude: Just Do It
You hear a lot about gratitude at this time of year. Sometimes gratitude is as easy to access as turning on a faucet of running water. Milestones, celebrations and achievements all make for grateful hearts. The fact is sometimes...
Read moreTraveling Rules of the Holiday Road
The holidays are coming up as fast as a V8 sports car speeding on a super-highway. Vrrooooom! And for families living in the midst of the challenges of the family systems illness of substance use disorder, this time of year makes...
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