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Hope For Drug Addiction

"I didn't feel like I had any support anywhere. No one ever really asked, 'how are you?' or 'what's going on?'... I did pretty much anything I could to get high and to be numb."

All new this week! Have you ever felt emotional pain so intense that you would do anything to make it go away? Have you felt the burden of watching a loved one self-destruct and feeling powerless to help them?

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My Turn

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Frog Hollow

read by Sam Heatwole

Kids in elementary school are impressionable; at least I seemed to be. January is an impressionable experience in rural Manitoba, arguably the coldest province in Canada. The windows of our one-room school were framed in sculptured ice; the condensed breath of 13 steaming kids froze from the bottom up on the window panes. Even though the janitor sealed visible cracks with strips of heavy woolen felt, winds from the Arctic with nothing to stop them but a few thin poplar groves whipped around our little school building and shook its seams loose.

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What Good is Faith?

What happens to an individual when drugs take over their entire life? What's the likelihood of ever getting clean again?

While making the television program, Finding Hope in Recovery: Families Living with Addiction, I encountered a lot of really good people completely consumed by their addictions. I saw how families came apart at the seams when a member became addicted. Substance abuse in any form is not a pretty sight.

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Next Week

In the United States alone more than 17 million people are going hungry tonight (USDA, 2008). And as food prices continue to climb, it's estimated that one out of every six people are living in hunger (FAO, 2009). So, what's being done? Next week's episode of Shaping Families features former U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole who has made it her personal mission, driven by her faith, to end hunger. Find out how you and your family can get involved.

Favorite Family Recipes

Potato/Corn Chowder

There's nothing like sitting around the table as a family eating bowls of hot soup on a cold winter's night. Whether you're in rural Manitoba where our Frog Hollow story comes from today or most places in the U.S. in January of 2010, you know what it means to be cold. Warm up with this recipe for Potato/Corn Chowder. It comes from the kitchen of Wayne, Shaping Famlies audio engineer who got it from his mom.

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