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On the West Coast, I am mostly done cooking and I am thinking of all of you. Remember. You're not alone. I send my love.

I am having a great deal of panic and pain. This is not a crisis. And nobody is at risk. Not even me. But I feel horrible. That's the issue I need help with. And I need help to decide the strongest and most compassionate way to respond to the circumstances I am in. I want to be kind to myself...

I want to give you a little update. It's a little bit of good news at the end. You can skip to that below, if you want. The first half of this post are set up. My son's been homeless off an on for 8 years. My son just had his 31rst birthday. About 2.5 months ago my son came back here to our...

I am looking for suggestions on books to read to understand and to begin to live from the position of radical acceptance. I see there are popular books by Tara Brach, and I know the concept was popularized by Marsha Linehan. Can anybody recommend where to start? Also, was it more helpful to you...

I have been trying to do whatever I can to try to heal. I have turned to spirituality and have joined a couple of communities in my faith. I have also tried 12 step groups . And Somatic Experiencing Therapy for early trauma. I have responded most to spirituality. I have had repeated trauma in...

I traveled all this way by train and he did not show.. I confirmed at the train station. He said he was leaving. He never did. He blames me. He turned off his phone. I'm devastated.

I am on my cell .Sigh. But I bought a computer today and paid for expedited shipping. My son will take a 614pm train to near where I am. I am unsure exactly where he's going and he is not either. He said he was going to a town a half hour away. There is a homeless shelter there but I am not...

Do you have a little free time? Would you be willing to give me some virtual support as I try to tackle the clutter in my house, organize drawers and closets, get rid of lots of stuff (eBay or garage sale or donate) hang pictures, make my house beautiful and my garage manageable? I will need...

New Leaf in my last thread wrote about the narrow path in the sea where she canoes, the path between hitting the rocks, and being lost in the roaring waves. This is the place she seeks as she navigates her life with her daughters. This quote I lifted from another PE thread called "Where is...

On another mother's thread so as to not hijack it, SWOT suggested I start my own, new thread. And here it is. (I have copied what follows from another post.) Tomorrow I should see my son. We are meeting in a City maybe an hour from me, and two from where he has been homeless. It is four months...

I have nothing more to say except that I am so very grateful for each of you. I know we all represent different political beliefs and religious beliefs and even countries. I want to tell you that you are, all of you, a blessing, and you have, each of you, helped me to believe there is loving...

Like most of us I am heartbroken about the Pittsburgh synagogue killings. There are no words. There is something more that comes up for me. I am a Jew. My son was neither born Jewish or raised Jewish. I tried to integrate him into my faith as a small child but the barriers at that time I felt...

I posted a comment on another thread and realized after that I needed counsel. I don't know what I am asking for. I guess, just company. Not to be alone with this. I have the impulse to text my son asking him: Where did I go wrong? What happened that 27 years of love has come to this? How? I...

I have been out of contact with my son for about 6 weeks, with only very sporadic contact by text. In the weeks prior it was an ugly break up. The police came multiple times. He squatted on a property. A couple of weeks later he left our area and went to a large metro a few hours away. I presume...

Well. This is not exactly non-parenting related, because my cat is my feline child, and I her mother. In Feb or so Stella was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism. I felt horrible because I had been in denial about the changes in her I was seeing before my very eyes. She was spitting up. She was...

My son told me this a couple hours ago, when he stood outside my car. (To follow.) We would not let him in to shower. He said everybody had been telling him he smelled. He cannot bear being dirty.. He said he had blisters on his feet and I believe him. His beard had greyed in 4 days. He had a...

my son finally called last night. 3 weeks ago he had called saying he had been robbed at gunpoint. lost pack, phone, access to money. Wanted to come home. I said no. The robbery is a direct consequence of how you choose to live. Solve it. For 3 days i stood firm until i could bear it no more...

Fourteen months ago after more than 4 years away my son moved back to our town, to live either with us or in a property we are remodeling. We bought it with the idea that some time in the future my son would have somewhere safe to live apart from me. We did not ask him to come home. He showed...

First I want to give credit to RN and her current thread, by which I have been influenced. I believe I am now on a similar page, and M may be getting there. What I want? I have to find a way to put myself back in the center of my life, not my son. Because when he is my center, I am the effect...

Why am I always so long-winded? (I read recently that it is an early sign of dementia--that worries me more than you know.) That said, here goes: My son who is 28 has been living with us, or in a property we own nearby, for almost all of the past year, except for two or three months he was in...