There are very few experiences in life more devastating than parenting an addicted loved one. It has been compared with the experience of watching your child slowly commit suicide day after day for years on end. It is also one of the most destructive force to marriage and family that there is. Our goal is to help you adjust to and learn to function in your new reality in order to prepare you to help your addicted loved one,
Learn MoreYou might be asking yourself How did this series come to be? What is the story behind the series? Why did I choose to write not one but three books on this topic?
Very few people spend much time volunteering in this field without a personal connection, for most their own addictive history leads them to work with recovering addicts. For others their personal struggles with an addicted family member give them a special compassion for parents, or siblings, or spouses struggling with a loved one’s addiction. Our personal struggles led my wife and I to a special compassion for the parents.
My StoryI personally found this book, very helpful. having gone through the heartache, of seeing one of my children, derail himself with drugs and alcohol. His choices led him down a very difficult path that included run-ins with the police and time in jail. The guilt and shame we felt during those years was almost too much to bear. This book helped us to reframe those experiences.
Coming across this book has been a breath of fresh air. Its common sense and caring approach is exactly what we needed to hear. I especially appreciated Mr. Baumann’s knowledge that was coupled with a writing style that seems to demonstrate a special compassion for parents, going through what can only be described as a living hell.
Not only was the book arranged so that each chapter addressed one specific topic and explored each topic thoroughly. We particularly appreciated how each chapter ended with opportunities to help us process what we had just read.
I would definitely recommend this book to any parent that is looking for a better, fact based, perspective on dealing with these issues.
This book is a valuable resource for families dealing with addiction issues. Laid out in a logical step by step manner it helps guide you through a process of recovery and acceptance. it is a must read book for anyone who is trapped in the nightmare of a child’s addiction.
I wish that this book had been around to help my parents, it would have helped them to process what i put them through. It helped me to appreciate what they went through. They never got to see the sober me. I hope other parents will take advantage of this resource, i am certain it will help.
I bought the book for myself but with each chapter, a different client came to mind, whom i felt would benefit from that chapter.
Everything you hear about addiction is doom and gloom, no hope; we so desperately needed some reason for hope, some light at the end of the tunnel that was not an oncoming train. Mr. Baumann entitled this book hope and he did not mislead, but it was not mindless hope. He uses scientific facts and studies to paint a sobering but balanced picture of addiction. But the balance comes out in favor of hope. We so needed this.
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