Excerpt (Wix - 350 characters max) Pam Jones Lanhart honors her son Jake, who died from an accidental overdose at 24, and shares how her family moved from fear, confrontation, and crisis toward connection. Their experience helped inspire Thrive Family Recovery Resources and a mission to give families evidence-informed support sooner.

Sandy Rivers explores moral injury in recovery: the pain of violating one's values, being harmed by others, and facing impossible choices. She shows how hearing moral grievances without judgment can open a path toward responsibility, acceptance, reconciliation, and change.

Sandy Rivers examines the double standard faced by mothers with substance use disorder. Drawing from family history, clinical experience, and her daughter's recovery, she shows how shame blocks treatment and why women recover better with dignity, allies, relationships, and community.