Parents Supporting Parents

03/23/2026

You probably think you're drinking or getting high because you enjoy it
But really, it's because you need it to do a job for you...
to make you feel better,
to help you cope
to avoid your grief,
and insecurities
your regrets
and guilt
your resentment
and anxiety
And it works.
At least it does in the beginning
but then...
It stops being your friend
and becomes your boss
making increasingly absurd demands
on your time,
your relationships
and your finances.
Eventually, it stops pretending
and leaves you passed out on the bathroom floor
Destroying your
values
morals
integrity
and worth
Then it kills your ability to enjoy anything without it
You become a shaking, empty husk of who you once were
stuck in a repetitive pathological loop of
wanting
needing
craving...
But promising, just one, no more, this time will be different
That may be the most challenging aspect of all
Alcohol minimizes its damage by focusing on the good times
It sees no truth
Speaks no truth
Hears no truth
It pushes away everyone who loves you
and lies in the saddest voice of all...
Your Own.

03/23/2026

COMMUNITY SUPPORT NEEDED

💜 PARENTS SUPPORTING PARENTS 💜
5th Annual Mother’s Day Auction for Sober Living Scholarships

If you have experienced the heartbreaking loss of a child, brother, sister or a family member to substance use disorder, please know you are not alone.

Join us in honoring their memory while helping others find hope and recovery.

🗓 April 26 – May 10, 2026

This meaningful event raises funds for sober living scholarships, giving individuals in recovery a real chance at a new beginning.
Last year, our community helped provide 496 scholarships — changing lives and bringing healing to families.

You can help by:
✔ Donating auction items
✔ Volunteering
✔ Sharing your story

For more information, please contact:
Linda Cubellis
508-846-5731
capecodpsp@gmail.com

💜 Together we remember. Together we heal. Together we make a difference.

03/22/2026

She still remembered the weight of him as an infant, how he felt in the crook of her arm. Back then, love felt like protection--like if she held him tight enough, nothing bad could ever reach him. Years later, she would learn that love could not block a needle, ease a craving, or untangle whatever storm had taken root inside him.

At first, it didn't look like addiction. It looked like restlessness, like rebellious behavior, like a phase. She told herself stories, he was finding himself, and he would outgrow it.

The night she found him passed out on the bathroom floor, something inside her shifted permanently. Fear, sharp and electric, replaced the softer worries she carried before. She became both his guardian and his witness, standing at the edge of life she could neither change nor control.

People told her to be strong.

But addiction is not a weight to be lifted. It's a slow erosion, shaped by forces too complex to name clearly. Knowing that it was a disease didn't make it easier--it just made the guilt harder to place.

There were good days. Days when he laughed again, when his voice sounded like the boy she used to know.

And there were the other days--the ones that stretched long and heavy, where every phone call made her heart race, where every siren felt personal.

Still, she loved.

She loved through slammed doors and broken promises. Through apologies that sounded sincere and relapse that followed anyway. Through the exhausting cycle of hope and disappointment that defined loving someone in the grip of addiction.

Because underneath everything--the fear, the anger, the grief--there was something that never changed.

He was still her child, and she loved him.

And she would never stop loving him or praying for the day when she would hear him say three life-changing words. "I need help."

03/22/2026

How true!

When your child struggles with addiction, you live in a constant state of almost.

Almost sleeping
Almost breathing
Almost believing this time will be different

You study their eyes, searching for the child you carried, the one who once reached for your hand without shame or secrets. Sometimes you see them — a crooked smile, a soft "I love you, Mom" — and your heart breaks all over again because you know the drugs are probably speaking and they want something from you.

Addiction doesn't just take your child. It takes your peace. It takes your holidays. It takes your hopes and dreams. It takes the sound of a ringing phone and turns it into terror. Every unknown number could be the call that splits your world in two.

You learn how to sit in a parking lot and cry before work. You learn how to lie when people ask, "How are your children?" You learn that love is not always strong enough to save someone--and that is the most helpless feeling a parent will ever know.

Guilt claws at you in the dark.
What did I miss?
What did I do wrong?
Could I have loved harder, watched closer, prayed louder?

You swing between anger and fierce protectiveness. Between wanting to shake them and wanting to wrap them in your arms and never let go. You set boundaries that break your own heart. You say no when every fibre of your being wants to say yes. You learn that sometimes loving your child means letting them feel the consequences that might save their life.

And still--you love them.

You love them when they lie.
You love them when they relapse.
You love them when they disappear.
You love them when they come home, thin and ashamed, promising again.

Lovig a child with addiction is a quiet, relentless grief. It's grieving someone who is still alive. It's holding hope in one hand and fear in the other.

But there's the truth no one tells you, you are stronger than you think. Not because you don't break--you will--but because you keep loving anyway. You keep showing up. You keep praying. You keep believing that recovery is possible even when their actions say otherwise.

Please know...

You didn't cause it.
You can't fix it.
You can't undo it.

There is hope.

And if no one has told you lately--this is not your shame to carry.

It's love that defines you. Not their addiction.

03/20/2026

🌸💜 WE NEED YOU! 💜🌸

Parents Supporting Parents is looking for volunteers from EVERY town on Cape Cod — including Plymouth & Wareham — to help make our 5th Annual Mother’s Day Auction the biggest and most impactful yet!

In 2025 alone, PSP awarded 496 sober living scholarships thanks to the generosity of our incredible community. Every dollar raised helps individuals find the stable housing they need to begin recovery and rebuild their lives.

It’s a small time commitment with a life-changing impact.
Each scholarship is given in loving memory of the angels we’ve lost. 💜

📧 capecodpsp@gmail.com
📞 Call Linda: 508-846-5731

✨ Join us. Volunteer. Make a difference.

03/19/2026

We need YOU for our 5th Annual Mother's Day Auction! ‼️📣

Parents Supporting Parents is looking for volunteers from every town on Cape Cod — including Plymouth and Wareham — to help make this year's auction our biggest yet.

In 2025, PSP awarded 496 sober living scholarshipsthanks to the generosity of our community. Every dollar raised goes directly to helping individuals on Cape Cod find the stable housing they need to recover. 💜

It's a small time commitment for an enormous impact — and every scholarship is awarded in memory of the angels we've lost.

📧 mailto:capecodpsp@gmail.com 📞 Call Linda: 508-846-5731

03/17/2026

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03/17/2026

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Help us help others in our 5th Annual Mother's Day Auction! We need volunteers for every town on the Cape including Plymouth and Wareham! In 2025 PSP awarded 495 scholarships between what we raised in the auction and grants from the opioid settlement grants. Please help us have another successful auction! It is a very small-time commitment for a very important cause! All scholarships are in memory of the many angels we have lost! Contact us at capecodpsp@gmail.com or call Linda at 508-846-5731.

02/23/2026

No weekly support meeting tomorrow 2/23 due to the snow storm. Please stay safe everyone! ❄️

02/21/2026

Join us for Tides of Change 🌊

A community event focused on mental health & substance use awareness.

📍 Sandwich Center for Active Living
📅 Saturday, Feb 21, 2026
⏰ 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM

🎤 Keynote by Nathan Harmon
🤝 Community Resource Fair
🏀 Open Gym
☕ Coffee & lunch provided

Come connect, learn, and be inspired!

02/09/2026

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*ZOOM ONLY this week*

Substance use impacts the whole family. While the loved ones of the individual struggling may not suffer from addiction themselves they are an important part of the recovery of the individual who struggles. Come and get the education and support you need from others who have walked in your shoes. We hope you can join us!

Join us Monday, 2/9 on zoom for our Weekly Support Meeting.

Email CapeCodPSP@gmail.com for thr zoom link.