Learning to Walk: While her six-year-old son with special needs struggles to walk, this author's own struggle with alcoholism and eating disorders leads her down paths paved with grace, mercy and purpose.

Addiction is relentless, convincing and a master of deceit. It would have to be to pull someone as confident as I was into its grip and hang on that tightly for so long. From my late teens and beyond, I lived what I believed was a well-ordered life at the mercy of alcoholism and eating disorders. Juggling addiction with life unraveled when I had triplets and was faced with the task of raising a child with special needs.

I began a journey which led me to the realization that Adam, who had cer...