Our daughter’s phone privileges now restored
Lets her call her Mom and bf’s mom, too.
How’s the bf and what’s he now up to?
Locked up but drug-free, inactive, and bored.
Sarah’s quite upset by newsclips he had read
And now he’s mad for what’s been said
In posted on-line comments, though ill-conceived.
Apparently the message was poorly received!
So much for the ditties!
Sarah, after rejecting the idea, was able to put aside her first instinct to abandon the Ranch, agreed with her counselor's recommendation to stay another 28 days. Apparently her housemates may have been supportive. Maybe someone's advice that a person in recovery should not be in a "relationship" for at least 12 months. Whatever the reason, we are greatly relieved.
Paraphrasing the first few of the 12 steps
- Need to admit powerlessness over drugs
- Believe that only God can restore us to being clean
- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to God’s care
These are the critical first stages to recovery and healing the physical, mental, and spiritual dimensions of this ugly, complex, and destructive addiction Sarah is confronting. Oh so difficult!
Put yourself in Sarah’s predicament. You’re at 9.9 out of 10 on the life to death scale, blinded by the magnetism of the devil drugs. Your habits and friends, healthy or not, have been temporarily ripped away by authority figures. Slammed into detox and then nearly forced into “recovery” mostly against your will.
You’re being told to focus on yourself, work on your recovery, change habits, change people, change places! Against your will! Fight it or out-fox it! Against this backdrop you must summon extraordinary strength and courage needed to find the will to fight the disease. These extraordinary demands are required of the addict who is already physically, mentally, and spiritually confused.
And that’s what’s facing our beloved daughter. Rejoice in the small step to stay!
Be strong!
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Talked to Sarah today for a few minutes ... it was nice. She sounded pretty good. The Ranch sounds pretty hippy-dippy, which is a good thing. People coming off of mind-altering substances need drug-free mind expansion such as meditation and internal visualization. I know it helped me with self-awareness.
I read Sarah the comments from the referenced article to try to help her understand the whole context, as well as PQ's mea culpa. Some people are probably lucky that such comments are the only way frustrations have been vented thus far.
I had a client plead guilty to drug possession charges today (reduced from possession with intent to distribute). He got 5 years with 3 suspended, meaning 2 to serve and the 3 are possible if probation isn't completed successfully. Another got less time on an "attempted possession" charge (I can explain later). Another client doesn't think he should get 9 years with 5 years suspended as a way to resolve 3 different pending drug cases - one charge in one case has a mandatory minimum of five years to serve. "It's too much time for someone who's just a junky." If convicted of all charges he is likely to have to serve close to 10 years and will likely have upwards of 10 years hanging over him too.
There are some real world consequences here. One of them being death.
Ride a painted pony, let the spinning wheel spin.
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