For
nine years I have been describing my 27-year-old daughter
as a `drug
addict'. Realisation hit last week. My daughter is MORE
than an addict.
She is a mother to two wonderful sons. She is an older
sister, a niece to four
people, a cousin, and the first grand - daughter to
an 89-year-old lady. She is
my eldest daughter.
She
is a wonderful friend to many people. Take away the
drugs and she is
trusting and caring. She loves to give gifts to those
people she loves. She has
a huge capacity to love. She is creative and artistic,
intelligent and enterprising. Since I have made this
shift in my thinking, I have found it is
so much easier to talk to her a 'other things'.
She
is far from perfect and I fight back the negatives
that so readily pop into my consciousness. I bite
my tongue to stop asking her what she is currently
doing about her addiction and wait for her to open
up to me. I try instead to tell myself she is MORE
THAN AN ADDICT.
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