Christmas 2022

Depending on where you travel, time machines are no fun.

A time machine arrives in your front yard. The only catch is that you must travel back to a time in your own life. When do you choose? One period we are pretty sure you won’t choose: the early teen years.

Remember that time? The insecurity? The shifting social groups? Never feeling smart enough/athletic enough/beautiful enough? The teen years can be soul-crushing.

It’s not just your experience. Statistics on self-worth for teens are sobering

Fall 2022

A mother with serious health conditions. A son living on the street with a drug addiction. A global pandemic. It was the perfect storm.

Alison* is a single parent. 3 years ago, she asked her adult son to leave her home because of his addiction.

The storm was coming though. By the beginning of the pandemic things had spiraled out of control; he was stealing, there were legal problems and her health issues meant she had to be careful about contact with others. She was desperate to set some boundaries with her son. A friend suggested she call Eagles Nest.

 

Spring 2022

“There was so much yelling.”

That is one of the first things Elyse* mentions when asked why she enrolled her son Leo* in Emoticon, one of our programs for kids.

Leo is 8. He is a social guy. He loves games and hanging out with people. He also has big emotions that he doesn't always know what to do with.