A NEW DAY:
COA Moms are Paving a Path of Healing and Hope

As May brings us both Mental Health Awareness Month and Mother’s Day, it is a relevant time to honor and recognize the extraordinary mothers who were children who grew up in homes with addiction (COAs). These moms – through their personal dedication and commitment to healing – set out on a mission not only to mend the trauma in their own lives, but to ensure that the next generation (their children) experiences childhood free of the dark shadows that haunted them growing up.

Motherhood for COA mothers is a testament to the strength and refusal to let the past define the future. They embrace motherhood with a deep passion, driven by the love they channel into every choice and action for their babies. It is a role they fulfill with a vivid awareness of its importance; an endeavor marked by their focused efforts to nurture, protect, and educate their children. They passionately commit to providing a childhood for their own children in sharp contrast to their own challenged upbringing.

This May, we take extra time to appreciate these mothers who are the REAL-LIFE ROCK STARS: they are the change-agents in their families. Their journeys are of recovery and transformation—turning pain into purpose and fears into lessons of courage and resilience. By choosing to heal, they break the recording of their stories, that plays and repeats in their mind. By rewriting them they create a new legacy of health, happiness, and emotional stability for their families.

Join us at NACoA in honoring these incredible moms: not just on Mother’s Day but throughout the month of May. Their relentless drive, profound love, and the serene environments they create are gifts that extend beyond their families, touching all of us in our communities. Their stories inspire, reminding us of the power of individual change to foster intergenerational healing and a brighter future for these new children.