Tag: Eudora Kansas therapist
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When Addicted Parents Come Back
As a Child Protective Services social worker, I encountered drug addicts whose behavior was so troubling it was hard to fathom they could ever be capable of helping their children whose childhoods they had seemingly destroyed. When a mother is driving her child around in the backseat of a car with an active meth lab…
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Grieving Different Losses
One of my best friends died by suicide in 2006 at the age of twenty-nine. Ten years later, my mom died of ovarian cancer at the age of seventy-three. They both battled their respective illnesses—my friend’s an illness of the mind and my mother’s an illness of the body–before their deaths. Neither of them emerged…