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A Recovering Alcoholic Feared Her Daughter Might Repeat Her Mistakes

The knot in my stomach grew tighter. I was dropping off my teenage daughter, Maggie, at her friend’s…

A Reason for Hope: Stories of Recovery

April 1, 1978. The desert sun blazed through the living-room windows of my parents’ house in Rancho Mirage,…

A Pastor’s Wife on Loving Her Husband Through His Recovery

My name is Deborah Beddoe, and my husband Dave and I have been married for 27 years. And…

An Incarcerated Man’s Answered Prayer to End His Drug Addiction

“Enjoy your week alone, convict.” Those were the last words I heard before the prison guard slammed shut…

An Expert Tells Us How to Beat the Post-Holiday Blues During a Pandemic

The holidays are often thought of as the “most wonderful time of the year” but that’s not always…

An Excerpt from Vin Baker’s ‘God and Starbucks’

I can see it on their faces sometimes. They walk into the store, heavy lidded, distracted by thoughts…

Andrew Zimmern: The Road to Recovery

I sat down on the bed next to Jimmy, this small room at the veterans residential care facility…

An Addict Embraces God’s Forgiveness

Every time I looked at the purplish snowcapped mountains or heard the rush of the waterfall near my…

A Mother’s Answered Prayer for Her Son’s Recovery

Two guys walked up to us in the strip mall parking lot just as my husband and I…

A Mother Learns to Turn Her Son’s Addiction Over to God

Nighttime phone calls are never good news when you’re the mother of a drug addict. My phone rang…

A Miraculous Release from Alcohol Addiction

“There are only two ways to live,” Albert Einstein said. “One is as though nothing is a miracle.…

A Miracle Healed Roberta Messner of Pain and Addiction

I sat beside my mother’s hospital bed. She lay dying of cancer. I didn’t know whether she could…

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