Drops of Inner Peace

01/04/2026

Join me every Sunday here on my page for gentle tools to help you find peace in the chaos of loving someone through addiction.

This is your space to pause, reset, and choose peace, no matter what’s happening around you.

Follow along each week & save these posts so you can return to them whenever the chaos feels heavy.

💫Your strength is not defined by how much you endure.

It’s defined by how gently you return to yourself when you’re exhausted.

You’re human.
You’re allowed to break, cry, rest, reset and begin again.

💬 Journal Prompt:
Where in my life am I pretending to be strong when I actually need support?

💎 Crystal & Oil:
• Moonstone — emotional softness
• Chamomile — nervous system relief

🕯 Mini Ritual:
Place moonstone under your pillow tonight.
Before bed, whisper:
“I release today. I welcome rest.”

✨ Affirmation:
“I am allowed to rest. Strength grows in softness.”

01/02/2026

Loving someone who’s losing themselves to addiction can feel like you’re fighting a war you were never meant to fight alone. You try to save them. You try to hold everything together. You pour from an empty cup until you can’t feel your own heartbeat anymore.

But here’s the truth no one tells you… protecting your peace, setting boundaries, and choosing your own healing is not giving up on them. It’s choosing not to lose yourself in their battle.

You are allowed to breathe again.
You are allowed to choose calm.
You are allowed to take your life back.

If this touched something in you, know you’re not alone 🧡Save this for the days when your heart feels heavy.

12/31/2025

Every year on New Year’s Eve, for the last 5 years, I create a collage of my favorite memories to remind myself of something important: even in hard seasons, life still gives us joy, beauty, and moments that take our breath away. ✨

This year was full of growth, healing, adventures, family memories, milestones, creativity, courage, and love. From turning 50, retreats, sound healing, frozen waterfalls, game nights at the cabin, Mackinac trips, holidays together, and building my course for mothers of addicts, my heart is so grateful for it all.

Someone once told me to “find the joy in life,” and that’s been my intention ever since. When things feel heavy, we don’t always remember how much good life holds… until we look back and see how much beauty we actually lived.

Here’s to more joy, more presence, more healing, and more love in 2026. 🧡

💫Tell me one beautiful memory from your year below. I’d love to celebrate with you.

12/30/2025

12/28/2025

Join me every Sunday here on my page for gentle tools to help you find peace in the chaos of loving someone through addiction.

This is your space to pause, reset, and choose peace, no matter what’s happening around you.

💚 Follow along each week & save these posts so you can return to them whenever the chaos feels heavy.

💫When You Feel Yourself Slipping Back Into Old Patterns

If you keep slipping back into old patterns, it’s not failure, it’s trauma asking for healing.

You’re not going backwards. You’re revisiting a part of yourself that still needs love.
Your patterns aren’t flaws, they are survival strategies your soul created.

This week, notice your patterns without judgment.
Awareness is the first step toward liberation.

💬 Journal Prompt:
What old pattern is resurfacing, and what is it trying to teach me?

💎 Crystal & Oil:
• Amethyst — breaking old cycles
• Clary Sage — mental clarity + intuition

🕯 Mini Ritual:
Light a candle and journal for three minutes. Ask your pattern:
“What are you trying to protect me from?”
Listen gently.

✨ Affirmation:
“I honor my past patterns, and I choose a new path forward.”

12/26/2025

33 years ago at 1:57 pm, my son Dominic came into this world and changed my life forever. I became a mom at 17, scared and determined, doing the best I could with what I knew at the time. Our journey together has been anything but easy.

There were years of heartbreak, distance, fear, and a lot of praying through tears. There were seasons where our relationship was rocky, and life took us places I never imagined we’d have to go.

But we grew up together. And I never stopped loving him.

Today, I am incredibly proud of the man he is. He is sensitive, strong, resilient, and has been in recovery for a while now. I thank God every single day that I get to celebrate another year with him in my life. His laughter, his presence, his heart, they are miracles I will never take for granted.

If you are a mom still in the thick of it… please don’t lose hope. Healing is possible. Recovery is possible. Relationships can be rebuilt. And even when the journey feels impossibly heavy, love has a way of finding its way through.

Happy Birthday, Dominic. You are proof that miracles happen. 💙

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12/24/2025

If you’re a mama walking through this holiday season with a heart that’s heavier than you ever imagined… I see you.

Maybe your child isn’t coming home.
Maybe they are… but addiction is coming with them.
Maybe you won’t hear from them at all.
Or maybe you’ll spend the day pretending you’re “okay” so everyone else can enjoy Christmas.

It’s a special kind of grief when your child is still here… but addiction has taken pieces of them away.
And it’s a special kind of pain to love someone so deeply while having absolutely no control over their choices.

So if the tears come this season… let them.
They are proof of your love, your devotion, your motherhood, your humanity.
You are not “too emotional.”
You’re a mother living through something that would break most people.

When the ache gets loud and your mind spirals into fear, guilt, and “what ifs,” try this little reset:

✨ A Small Holiday Reset for Your Heart
Put your hand over your chest.
Take one slow breath in.
Say to yourself:
“I am allowed to feel this.”
“I can love my child without destroying myself.”
“I am still worthy of peace, even in the chaos.”
Breathe out slowly and imagine laying the weight down… even if just for a moment.

Then do one tiny thing that brings warmth back into your body, wrap up in a blanket, hold a warm mug, step outside for cold air and a deep breath, light a candle, touch something real so your nervous system remembers you are safe right now.

You don’t have to hold Christmas together.
You don’t have to be strong every second.
And you don’t have to stop loving your child to protect your peace.

You deserve softness, comfort, and moments of quiet joy, too.

You are not alone here. I’m right here with you. ❤️

12/23/2025

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12/22/2025

I found an old ornament while decorating our Christmas tree with their little faces inside it. Tiny smiles. Baby cheeks. That look in their eyes before life got heavy.

And for a minute I just stood there holding it, remembering when my only worries were scraped knees and bedtime stories. When they were still so small and the world hadn’t had a chance to get loud yet.

I won’t lie. My heart still whispers sometimes, I wish life would have gone differently for both of you. I wish you had been protected from certain pains. I wish your paths had been softer. I wish the innocent joy in this little ornament had lasted forever.

But I also know this. I loved you fiercely then, and I love you fiercely now. Even through the mess. Even through the heartbreak. Even through the things I couldn’t change.

This ornament holds more than a picture. It holds every prayer I ever whispered over you. Every tear. Every hope. Every version of me that kept showing up even when I was breaking.

You were my babies then. You’re still my babies now. Just living in a world that didn’t turn out the way I dreamed.

And I’m still standing here, loving you anyway.

12/21/2025

Join me every Sunday here on my page for gentle tools to help you find peace in the chaos of loving someone through addiction.

This is your space to pause, reset, and choose peace, no matter what’s happening around you.

💚 Follow along each week & save these posts so you can return to them whenever the chaos feels heavy.

The Guilt That Isn’t Yours

You do not have to apologize for prioritizing your peace.

Caption:
You’ve carried blame, guilt, and responsibility that was never meant for you.
Guilt is a heavy habit, not a truth.

You are allowed to rest.
You are allowed to have boundaries.
You are allowed to choose peace even when others don’t understand.

💬 Journal Prompt:
What guilt am I ready to let go of today?

💎 Crystal & Oil:
• Selenite — cleansing old emotional patterns
• Lavender — softening guilt + releasing tension

🕯 Mini Ritual:
Place your hand on your heart and whisper:
“I do not carry what is not mine.”

✨ Affirmation:
“My peace is not up for negotiation.”