Category Archives: Teens
Forever
This was written after sitting with a mother,
as she tried to explain how she feels living through another day
of her daughter’s addiction, and was first shared in December 2007.
I am posting it again, because there have been several people
that have recently shared stories of addiction that they are facing in their families.
This is an issue [...]
There are no replicas~
“Live up to YOUR potential, instead of imitating someone else’s.”
Martha Burgess
She wanted her daughter to be her own person.
She wanted her daughter to listen to her own voice, not the incessant clamoring of mass media, to determine her path.
She begged her daughter to believe that she is amazing and deserves respect and love from all [...]


