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I’m Frances Stone — a recovery educator, author and Canadian Certified Addiction Counsellor. For more than 20 years, recovery has been part of my life personally and professionally.
My mission is mothers.
It always has been and always will be.
A Life of Service
Mother
Raising three children
Recovery
Living the experience
Counsellor
Frontline work in treatment and mental health
Advocate
Policy change for single mothers
Founder
Family recovery society and SOS Recovery Services
Educator
Adult education, workshops and curriculum
Creator
Author of two books, YouTube, podcasts
A Message to You
Welcome.
I'm so grateful that you're here.
Life is a story. Sometimes that story includes challenges, loss, grief, or experiences that leave us wondering how we found ourselves here. Yet I believe those experiences can also become part of our healing. They can bring us closer to who we truly are and to the life we are meant to live.
My hope is that you'll find this to be a safe place. A place where you don't have to have all the answers. A place where you can lay down the mask, speak your truth, and begin to discover what you need to move forward. Whether we meet through counselling, education, writing, or conversation, I look forward to walking alongside you.
A Message from Frances
Welcome.
I'm so grateful that you're here.
Life is a story. Sometimes that story includes challenges, loss, grief, or experiences that leave us wondering how we found ourselves here. Yet I believe those experiences can also become part of our healing. They can bring us closer to who we truly are and to the life we are meant to live.
My hope is that you'll find this to be a safe place. A place where you don't have to have all the answers. A place where you can lay down the mask, speak your truth, and begin to discover what you need to move forward. Whether we meet through counselling, education, writing, or conversation, I look forward to walking alongside you.
About You
Maybe you've been carrying more than anyone realizes.
Perhaps you're exhausted from trying to hold everything together. You've spent so much time caring for everyone else that you've forgotten what it feels like to care for yourself. Maybe you're living with grief, trauma, addiction, relationship struggles, or questions that don't yet have answers.
Part of you knows there has to be another way. You long to feel safe. To trust yourself again. To live with more freedom, more peace, and more hope. If you're seeking a place where you can be honest, curious, and fully yourself, you're welcome here.
My Philosophy
Feet on the ground. Head in the clouds.
The Practical
Skills
Education
Structure
Accountability
Recovery capital
Relationships
Daily action
Community
The Spiritual
Meaning
Identity
Connection
Hope
Faith
Purpose
Possibility
Love
Recovery is not simply about stopping something.
It’s about starting to learn who you really are.
Experience
COUNSELLING & MENTAL HEALTH
Salvation Army Harbour Light
Coast Mental Health
Private practice
COMMUNITY & LEADERSHIP
Mother’s Recovery Tribe
Family Recovery Society
Together We Can Collaborations
ADVOCACY
Single Mothers’ Alliance
Child-support Clawback Campaign
Municipal advocacy
Public advisory work
MEDIA & EDUCATION
Talk Recovery
Public speaking
Adult education
YouTube
Writing
The Oak Tree
by Johnny Ray Ryder Jr.
A mighty wind blew night and day
It stole the oak tree's leaves away
Then snapped its boughs and pulled its bark
Until the oak was tired and stark
But still the oak tree held its ground
While other trees fell all around
The weary wind gave up and spoke,
"How can you still be standing Oak?"
The oak tree said, "I know that you
Can break each branch of mine in two
Carry every leaf away
Shake my limbs, and make me sway.
But I have roots stretched in the earth
Growing stronger since my birth
You'll never touch them, for you see
They are the deepest part of me.
Until today, I wasn't sure
Of just how much I could endure
But now I've found, with thanks to you
I'm stronger than I ever knew."
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