She had not told me she had a son and she had not shown any particular signs she was emotionally distracted.

But somehow, I knew she needed to know she was doing a good job as a mother despite the surface evidence her son was going through some challenging times.

Debbie confirmed her son was using drugs and she was terrified. She had tried rehabilitation programs but as soon as he was released from the program he went right back to the same friends and picked up his habit again.

I was at an event and noticed one of the women who was seated a couple of chairs away from me didn’t participate in our conversations with the same enthusiasm as the rest of us. The majority of us had just me, so we were all a bunch of chatter boxes.

When the rest of the women got up to clean up the area I asked if she would stay behind to let me show her my NESTing process.

She readily agreed and I gave her a quick explanation of what I was going to do.