Last year around Mother's Day, things were very different. Life was so stressful for me, and my mother, the one person that I wanted to be able to depend on, just wasn't able to be there for me. After years of being sober, she has started to struggle with alcohol addiction again, and the mom I used to know was gone. Last year was also the first time that I shared publicly how I'd felt deserted and alone because of her  addiction. I didn't know it then, but baring my soul like that in the Listen … [Read more...]