coap in the media

life is like a series of photographs you develop from the negatives.

When you need to fly from your home, it's not a home. Home should be where the birds feelings are free not caged.

nobody likes the rain but if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

♫ And the stars are always there but we miss them in the dirt and in the clouds we miss them in the storms. ♫

To the believer anything is possible, to the sceptic everything is impossible.

"the reason angels can fly is becuase they take themselves lightly"

Stay strong- Keep smiling =] and NEVER give up- there is always hope <3

'It is not the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves' (William Shakespeare)

Stick to the fight when your hardest hit, its when things seem worse that you must not quit

it's about learning to dance in the rain

sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same

we never notice the beauty around us because we are too busy trying to create it.

People say that it is holding on that makes you stronger, but sometimes it is letting go and putting yourself first.

No-one can do a better job of being you, than YOU.

Be strong now because things will get better; it may be stormy now but it can't rain forever.

This too shall pass

We have to learn to dance in the rain

Even on the darkest days sometimes we glimpse sunlight

Sometimes we need to tell our story 100 times

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark

Whitney Houston's daughter spoke on television for the first time about her mother's death and the battle she'd faced in life with substance abuse on Oprah's Winfrey's show. Emma Spiegler, 29, knows what it's like to grow up with a mother who's an addict. Her mum struggled with alcoholism and addiction to pain killers for many years. Emma talks about our online community where young people can talk to others who know only too well the pain of what it is like to grow up with a parent who has an addiction.

Today Giselle has courageously shared her story of living with her mum's alcoholism, which is by far not an easy thing to do. Thank you Giselle for your courage, honesty and for speaking out so that others who are afraid and living in silence may discover they are not alone and that it's OK to talk.

Giselle now volunteers with our charity COAP — Children of Addicted Parents and People — going into schools to talk to youngsters about her experience in the hope of reaching out to others who may be going through something similar.

To read Giselle's inspiring story - click on this link to Daily Mail Femail.

Today Turning Point have reported that 2.6 million young people are affected by parental alcoholism.

At COAP young people have posted a lot of messages about a parents addiction to alcohol. We also have messages posted by young people living with a parent of family members addiction to drugs, and things such as gambling.

Watch Emma talk about her mum's addiction to alcohol.

In this week's Grazia Emma who set COAP up in 2006 shares her story of living with her mum's addiction to alcohol and prescribed medication and she spent many years trying to fix her mum.

COAP in the Media

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My mum's addiction (following on from Whitney Houston's death) 12.3.12 Lorraine Kelly ITV3

I spent my childhood trying to fix my mum 6.3.12 Grazia UK and International Grazia Magazine

Boozy parents at Christmas 13.12.11 ITV3 DayBreak Live with Kate Garraway, John Stapleton

Fundraiser tells of tough childhood with alcoholic father 8..7.11 Lincolnshire Echo

Are you teetotal because of what drinking did to your parents? 17.6.11 BBC Radio 2 Live

Future 100 Young Social Entrepeneurs 16.12.11

You booze, you lose; can the child of an alcoholic ever fully recover? 18.2.11 NHS Online

Alcoholism and Families 18.2.11 BBC Radio 5 Live Stephen Nolan

Breaking the Silence and Secrecy for Children of Addicted Families 1.10.10 Carers Community InExcess Issue No.1

Oh no, Mummy's drunk... again Daily Mail 14.7.10

BBC Oxfordshire Live 7.7.10 Phone in with Dr.Rachel Seabrook from Institute of Alcohol Studies

BBC Radio 2 Live 5.7.10 Jeremy Vyne and Dr Sarah Jarvis

BBC Breakfast Television News Live 5.7.10 Bill and Sharn with guest David Yelland former editor of The Sun

RADIO 5 Live Breakfast 5.7.10 ‘Has your Family been ruined by alcohol?’ Live 1hr Phone in with presenter Nicky Campbell and former alcoholic and editor of the sun David Yelland.

Living with Alcohol: A CBBC Newsround Special 30.6.10

What is it like caring for a parent with an addiction? 13.5.10 BBC Radio 1 Extra

Company Magazine 'Blogging became our therapy' 7.3.10

Pain and anger are the hidden burden for children with an alcoholic parent The Observer 14.2.10

Alcoholism - The Wright Stuff Channel 5 2.3.08

Mummy Stop Drinking - ITV Tonight 3.3.08

My Alcoholic Mother - TrueTube

Drinking Mothers - GMTV 06.08.07