By Kristi M. My name is Kristi and I am a very grateful recovering addict. It wasn’t always this way, though. I was born to parents who loved me but couldn’t love each other. They divorced when I was two, and my dad got custody. When I was seven my mom regained custody, and I moved back in with her and my new step-father. At age 10 I began skipping school. My behavior didn’t improve so I was put in a behavioral program for children. I did well there and after five weeks I returned … [Read more...]
Wilbur Mills Center helps dads take responsibility
By David Palmer There are 24 million children in the United States — that’s one out of three — who live without their biological father. It is a problem with serious consequences. Children who live absent their biological fathers are at least two or three times more likely to be poor, to use drugs and to experience educational, health, emotional and behavior problems. Absentee fathers have been criticized for shirking their parental responsibilities and in many cases deservedly so. At the … [Read more...]
Choose Not To Fear
Choose not to fear By Ruth M. My Higher Power (MHP) likes to keep me busy with challenges. I have learned through the program that it’s not so healthy to create my own chaos, because the challenges MHP provides are quite enough thank you very much. I have heard over and over again, “God won’t give you more than you can handle”… blah, blah, blah. Are these people nuts? Have these people seen my credit card bill? Have they walked in my shoes and lived with my ADS? Have they met my spouse of 30 … [Read more...]
Complacency and the anatomy of a slip
By John C. In 1974, I was a young physician struggling with alcohol, baffled by my inability to live with it — or without it. One of my patients paid a house call on me — her hung-over doctor — and introduced me to the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous. I was so thrilled to find a way out of my struggle that I seized upon the AA program without reservations. My life soon changed completely, and became manageable for the first time in years. As I recovered, I regained the trust of my … [Read more...]
Today ‘Chef Jeff’ Henderson wants to change lives
By David Palmer ‘Chef Jeff’ Henderson is a former crack cocaine dealer who became a millionaire selling drugs on the streets of Los Angeles at age 19 and went to prison on a drug charge at 24 for 11 years. Today, Henderson, 45, is an award-winning chef, television personality (the Chef Jeff Project on the Food Channel in 2008), motivational speaker, and, with two books in circulation, a best selling author. He tells his fascinating story of redemption in “Cooked. My Journey from the Streets to … [Read more...]
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