My experience is that the last person an adult child will listen to is a parent when in the throws of the addiction. It seems as though it takes a real difficult experience with the disease, before people are willing to give it up. When I wrote them I was speaking from the heart, never dreaming that they would actually affect so many people. I got a lot of inspiration from my meditative practice, so I often feel grateful that I have be a small part of the solution. Recovery is about being more in truth than lies and in truth choosing to love self and others.
Truth always precedes love.
This is really difficult for us humans. It helps if you are walking the spiritual path. Pia, I just can't resist it. People will not stop raving about you so, I have to let you see two more comments. It's such a relief to know why I act the way I do.