Daughters of the Bottle

Posted: September 18, 2014 | Author: Candess M. Campbell, PhD | Filed under: Energy Medicine DNA, Iwannabeaskinnybitch | Tags: ACOA, Addiction, Adult Children, Candess, Candess Campbell, chemical dependency, childhood, counselor, daughter, daughters of the bottle, dependency, dysfunction, dysfunctional, dysfunctional family, innocence, Jane Middleton-Moz, Juggler in A Mirror, love, Parent, poem | 3 Comments

“Why not ask a Loving Parent to help us reclaim our childhood innocence and to live more gently today?”

ACA WSO INC. – Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families

This week there has been a theme of addiction with my clients. Alcoholism and drug addiction affect the whole family. I remember when I first became a chemical dependency counselor back in the early 1980s. One of the poems I loved was this one. Maybe you can relate.

Daughters of the Bottle

until I was twenty-two

I didn’t think anyone else

had a drunk for a mother

then I met lori, joannie and susan

I recognized them immediately

by their stay away smiles

they were leaders in their work

competent imposters

like me

who would say they were sorry

if somebody bumped into them

on a crowded street

I call on them

once in awhile

they always come

children of alcoholics

always do

Jane Middleton-Moz

Juggler in A Mirror