Second Chances Kerry Gladue

06/27/2025

Discover "Book Second Chances" by Kerry Gladue: A Journey of Healing and Hope

Are you searching for a path to recovery from addiction and the lasting impact of intergenerational trauma? Look no further than " Second Chances".

This powerful and inspiring work has resonated deeply across Canada, earning features in major media outlets and newspapers nationwide. More than just a book, "Book Second Chances" is a vital tool for healing, embraced by schools and institutions as a beacon of hope and a guide for navigating the complexities of trauma and addiction from someone who lived through it.

Kerry offers a unique perspective and a compassionate voice, sharing insights and strategies that foster resilience and promote a genuine path to recovery. Reader enjoys the way it is written often feeling like he is right there with them through their reading experience. Whether you're personally affected, supporting a loved one, or working in a helping profession, " Second Chances" provides invaluable wisdom, tools and encouragement.

Join the countless individuals and organizations who have found renewed hope and healing through Kerry’s' impactful work.

Find his book, “Second Chances" today and begin your journey towards a brighter tomorrow. All books are signed by Kerry specific to you or for someone you love.

“Kerry Gladue’s personal and family history is as raw, painful and gritty as it gets. From it he has found transformation and yes, redemption---and inspiring affirmation that we all deserve and can have second chances, and new chances, so long as we live.”

Gabor Mate M.D

Author, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

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06/15/2025

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05/29/2025

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05/21/2025

04/16/2025

It's a justifiable medical intervention, often met with little opposition, when individuals experiencing mental health crises that lead to self-harm or harm to others are admitted to psychiatric hospitals. This perspective is deeply informed by the experiences of countless parents who have tragically lost children, despite their desperate efforts to prevent such an outcome. As a frontline worker and addictions counselor with years of lived experience, I have personally witnessed the devastating transformations of individuals, once full of potential, who become incapable of making life-saving decisions due to their addiction crisis. I recall the profound grief of parents mourning children whose capacity for rational thought was tragically eroded and not a thing I could do or say would change that.

This is not a punitive measure but a necessary medical response. It is crucial to understand this distinction and engage in thorough research before forming opinions.
Consider the thousands of individuals experiencing homelessness and grappling with severe addiction, often unable to prioritize basic needs like shelter and food over their substance use needs. The common refrain, "They need to decide to help themselves," overlooks the reality that their capacity for such decisions is often severely compromised and in so many, incapable.

I speak from personal experience. I was once the individual scavenging for sustenance and injecting substances to numb the pain of a traumatic past. I also bore witness to the loss of my younger sister to similar circumstances at a young age. Without intervention in my own life, I would not be alive today, as my ability to recognize or respond to the imminence of death was absent.

My intention here is not to seek social connections or engage in debate, but to share my deeply held beliefs rooted in factual observations and the profound losses I have personally witnessed. Only those who have held a young person in their final moments, knowing that life has slipped away, or who have faced distraught families desperately seeking reassurance that they did everything possible, can truly speak to the complexities of individual decision-making in such heart wrenching conversations.

This is an opportunity for collective human compassion, a chance to extend ourselves for the singular gift of life. For those who are deceased, all rights cease to exist.

Because of a humanitarian response in my own life and many others I personally know today. These little ones won't have to scream and shed tears in my coffin, and that is the right of the little ones we brought into this world to not be left alone and abandoned where the intergenerational cycle continues.

Kerry Gladue CIAC

Chief Administrative Officer

8 Pillars Recovery Foundation

04/16/2025

Today our team members were invited to be part of the announcement for Albertas new "Compassionate Intervention Act." Here we sat in the Gallery of the 1st session of assembly and witnessed action being taken by our Government to save lives, and to help the ones that are just not capable to make any kind of decision, other then the one that's been slowly killing them. Now families can do this for them and get them to the place they want to get back to, but just can't get there on their own.
A life saving tool of compassion and intervention to help awaken our lost ones and bring them back into the light, and bring them home.