Michelle Wallace

OhioGuidestone's mission is to provide pathways for growth, achievement, and lifelong success. Our behavioral health services use innovative intervention methods to treat children, youth, adults, and families experiencing mental health concerns. We also provide services related to addiction recovery, foster care, job training, and more. We know in our hearts that when we care for others, we are stronger. The Institute of Family and Community Impact combines care and compassion with advanced clinical science to help chart a better path for children, adults, and families in need. We invite those who make policy and program decisions and those who fund programs and services to join us in this mission. It's time to focus collective resources on innovative approaches that make a meaningful difference.

After the sudden and traumatic death of her mother, a daughter is violently pushed into the abyss of denial. In an attempt to detangle the knots of her life, and the relationship they had, she begins to write letters to the dearly departed. It begins to be the haphazard study of addiction through the eyes of a child and her honest reaction to death. Through exploring her past, she is gripped with anxiety due to the ever present internal debate between nature and nurture. The arduous process of expanding one's emotional capacity leads to compassionate revelations when she finally starts to examine things from a very different vantage point. We all harbor demons inside of our rib cage and there is only one side to a story when the other's metronome of a heart turns to ash.