by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 1, 2022 | addiction, recovery
From time to time I am called “mean” and “cruel” for speaking the truth I observe. People want to act like they are truth-tellers…they detest being lied to…… but you TELL them the truth and they bow up, call you mean, and have...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 28, 2022 | addiction
Keep on telling yourself addiction is a medical problem, not a moral or spiritual problem. We will have a lot more casualties in the war. We are in a war that is not against flesh and blood but against the powers and principalities of this world. This is just the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 1, 2022 | addiction, recovery, responsibility
From a devotional today on 1 Peter 4:7….. This is wisdom I have come to know through personal experience, through family history, and through years of watching people try to live under the burden of chemical dependency, and seeing many compromise or lose...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 28, 2022 | addiction
In a note from a friend, she shared that her pastor had preached a sermon on “the hells that can be present in one’s life and how they burden others around them.” Oh, my. I hope that was simply the perception of the listener and not the whole gist of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 12, 2022 | addiction
WARNING: Content may be distressing…… Today’s continuing education webinar on PTSD vs. Schizophrenia was both interesting and disturbing. The role of early childhood trauma in PTSD is unequivocal, although the symptoms may not appear until years...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 14, 2020 | addiction
Life is fast paced. And now, it seems, so is death. When I was young, I was aware that my grandfather drank. It was worse than that. He was alcoholic. I can remember my mother and her mother, Mama G., in tears on occasion because Daddy G. had, it seemed...
