Shaping Families

Living in Recovery

Approximately one in 10 people in the U.S. over the age of 12 struggles with substance abuse. It’s a problem and a disease that has affected almost every family in one way or another. What makes it so much more difficult is that recovery is not easy and for some is never achieved.

But Christopher Kennedy Lawford, who struggled with a drug addiction for many years, has experienced that recovery can happen. “I had been beaten down to a point where I was open enough and surrendered enough to allow grace to come into my life...

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Rebecca Thatcher Murcia

My husband, Saul, did not expect miracles from God and was tranquil with the knowledge that God was with him. “God suffers with me, takes care of me and blesses me every day,” he wrote after a particularly rough day of chemotherapy.

Moments of Clarity: Voices from the Front Lines of Addiction and Recovery, Christopher Kennedy Lawford

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We Love our Drugs!

Recently Odyssey Networks asked me if I would produce a 30-second public service announcement for Recoverymonth.gov. Odyssey Networks has made recovery from addictions a priority and they had offered to create a spot for Recovery Month, associated with the federal government’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

September is National Alcohol & Drug Addiction Recovery Month. Shaping Families is continuing on that topic with two parents who have spent many painful years walking alongside their daughter’s many addictions, recoveries, and relapses.

Bacon Cheese Pasta

In this weeks’ My Turn segment, Rebecca Thatcher Murcia talks about the community that surrounded her when her husband Saúl died. Telling this story reminded her of the bacon cheese pasta that won her heart when they first met and that he taught her to make during the last few months of his life.

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