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MOM, I NEED YOUR HELP: A Story of Love and Bent Spoons; Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope
Jess is blindsided when her nineteen year old daughter asks for her help in beating an opiate addiction and later discovers that her son suffers from the same addiction. This would be hard enough for any mother, but Kylie and James both work for the family business, which employs eight and grosses almost two million dollars a year, and James is their most important employee.
Kylie's path to recovery is one that Jess is dead set against, but Kylie is an adult. Jess' fears are confirmed as her daughter's cure becomes worse than her disease, but Kylie never waivers. James, on the other hand, will fall deeper into the world of addiction and the evil it imparts putting his life and the lives of others on the line. In her quest to save her children, Jess will face one difficult decision after another, even breaking the law in the process. Can Jess and her family save Kylie and James before they destroy everything their parents have worked for?
As Jess helps her children navigate their very difficult journeys to recovery, she struggles to hold on to her husband, her business, and her sanity. Eventually, Jess realizes that she has to stop helping in order to hold on to what she loves most. This is a mother's emotional story of helplessness, despair, and deception, chronicling the heartbreak as dreams are destroyed, along with the uplifting moments of triumph over the demons that haunt us all.
Kylie's path to recovery is one that Jess is dead set against, but Kylie is an adult. Jess' fears are confirmed as her daughter's cure becomes worse than her disease, but Kylie never waivers. James, on the other hand, will fall deeper into the world of addiction and the evil it imparts putting his life and the lives of others on the line. In her quest to save her children, Jess will face one difficult decision after another, even breaking the law in the process. Can Jess and her family save Kylie and James before they destroy everything their parents have worked for?
As Jess helps her children navigate their very difficult journeys to recovery, she struggles to hold on to her husband, her business, and her sanity. Eventually, Jess realizes that she has to stop helping in order to hold on to what she loves most. This is a mother's emotional story of helplessness, despair, and deception, chronicling the heartbreak as dreams are destroyed, along with the uplifting moments of triumph over the demons that haunt us all.
336 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 26, 2014
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July 20, 2017
Not awful, not fantastic. A true story of a mom who continues to 'help' her drug addict kids by giving them cushy jobs + money at the family run business. I found it difficult to feel pity for the problems of this family, as the family continued to manifest and prolong their own problems with their behaviors! Also, it is almost immediately apparent that the author of this book is not an actual writer- merely a mom telling her sob story. This could have been much better, IMO. At least I read it for free via Kindle Unlimited and didn't have to pay any actual $$ for it. Again, it is not HORRIBLE or anything, just merely MEH. --Jen from Quebec :0)
July 11, 2015
Entertaining and Honest
This Mom shares the difficulties of loving and caring for two children, all her children, who came from a close and stable upper middle class Christian family, yet as young adults both her daughter and son became opiate addicts. She shares honestly her ignorance of substance abuse that drove her to self education from research and mostly through personal experiences as she searches for understanding and for the answer, the perfect treatment, a quick fix for her children's sickness. She discovers that there are no quick fixes. Tough love makes sense to her much to late for her relationship with her son. An entire family, extended members all try to help but are often not on the same page. Hope, prayer, faith, advice, lectures, rescue attempts, hiding crimes, secrets, sheltering, multiple treatments, detoxes, and rehab, and unflattering love are not enough to cure the addict, the entire family discovers, There is no cure, only recovery, often with many relapses along the way and that only occurs when the addict is ready to for change. Nothing can be done until the addict is willing to commit to the process of recovery. Luckily for these two children, they will always have family support which is very important for the addict's success. A wonderful true story told by a mother who tells the ugliness, destructiveness and horrible pain that is always a component of addiction not only for the addict but for all who love the addicted person as well. Kudos to the Mom for her brutal honest disclosure.
This Mom shares the difficulties of loving and caring for two children, all her children, who came from a close and stable upper middle class Christian family, yet as young adults both her daughter and son became opiate addicts. She shares honestly her ignorance of substance abuse that drove her to self education from research and mostly through personal experiences as she searches for understanding and for the answer, the perfect treatment, a quick fix for her children's sickness. She discovers that there are no quick fixes. Tough love makes sense to her much to late for her relationship with her son. An entire family, extended members all try to help but are often not on the same page. Hope, prayer, faith, advice, lectures, rescue attempts, hiding crimes, secrets, sheltering, multiple treatments, detoxes, and rehab, and unflattering love are not enough to cure the addict, the entire family discovers, There is no cure, only recovery, often with many relapses along the way and that only occurs when the addict is ready to for change. Nothing can be done until the addict is willing to commit to the process of recovery. Luckily for these two children, they will always have family support which is very important for the addict's success. A wonderful true story told by a mother who tells the ugliness, destructiveness and horrible pain that is always a component of addiction not only for the addict but for all who love the addicted person as well. Kudos to the Mom for her brutal honest disclosure.
August 18, 2014
Enjoyed it
Enjoyed it
It was very touching and close to home in many ways. Makes you feel like You experienced it with them.
Enjoyed it
It was very touching and close to home in many ways. Makes you feel like You experienced it with them.
October 16, 2014
This story hit very close to home. God Bless this family. Unfortunately, mine didn't have a happy ending.
January 9, 2016
Good not great
I am the mother of an addict, and though you want to always help them, sometimes the best help is to pray. In this book she wasn't always honest with her husband and for me that is essential. It is a good read for the most part. I can relate to her struggle
I am the mother of an addict, and though you want to always help them, sometimes the best help is to pray. In this book she wasn't always honest with her husband and for me that is essential. It is a good read for the most part. I can relate to her struggle
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