Welcome Home: My Journey Back to Myself

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How do we learn "who we are" Our parents tell us ("you're good" "you're bad" you're smart" you're lazy"). Our school friends tell us ("you're dumb" "you're ugly" "you're smart" "you're fat"). Advertising tells us ("wear this to look prettier" "hide your blemishes" "lose that double chin"). So, how do we know Join Sara on her journey home, to herself, Some parts weren't easy, but every part held meaning, and provided a roadmap home, to Sara.

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Sara LaRiviere Ed.D has chaired academic departments at two Universities... The University of LaVerne in California (ULV) and The Health Sciences Department at Boise State University (BSU) in Idaho. She wrote and developed the Addictions Counselor Training Progran at BSU which was adopted by Universities statewide. A singer/songwriter her powerful and uplifting musical presentation "Some times Childhood Hurts" has been performed in classes, concerts and workshops throughout the state.
Dr. LaRiviere's personal journey through childhood abuse and family alcoholism, as well as her own 46 years of recovery, have cemented within her the unshakable belief that "it's our interpretation of our life experiences that creates our reality... ..and those interpretations are up to us."