A car wash

Addiction Services had another opportunity to attend a college visit, out of town with a family. Once this summer ends for 2014, we will have completed eight college visits with clients and sometimes their families. The story begins working with a family on a college visit cleaning a car. Each family member working together as a unit, (writer included) accomplishing a goal with positive energy. I had to take a step back for a second, and view this positive moment where brothers and mom are working as a team, smiling, laughing, enjoying a moment on vacation while meeting their goals during a college visit. This was huge! Often families can forget how important it is to get along with each other through the tough times and negative energy can take over making things bigger. Each person had a task, but the funny thing, there was no delegation to what each person was suppose to do, right? We all know as parents we bark out, clean your room, take the garbage out, did you do the dishes? All normal tasks we ask our kids to do. But, sometimes they do not do them, and after awhile we need to get the kids on a task or goal schedule. Here is the interesting dynamic to this story, cleaning a car with a family. All parties did not need any prompts or directions from parent or writer- they all did the tasks on their own with self-autonomy. Wow, this was great. Watching a special family bond in a positive way is staying in our health and staying in the moment.