I Love You, More: Short Stories of Addiction, Recovery, and Loss From the Family's Perspective

Cohen, Blake E.

ISBN 10: 0578509121 / ISBN 13: 9780578509129

Published by Blake Cohen (edition ), 2019

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Synopsis:

When someone you love is fighting addiction, your story matters too.

I Love You, More tells that story. Through three short, fictional narratives drawn from real experience, it follows the parents, partners, and siblings left to navigate the fear, anger, hope, and grief of loving someone with a substance use disorder. Each story ends differently, because in real life recovery sometimes happens and sometimes does not.

Written by Blake Cohen, a former addiction counselor in long-term recovery since 2012, these stories give voice to the people addiction usually leaves unheard: the family.

This book is for you if you are:

• A parent, spouse, sibling, or adult child of someone struggling with alcohol or drugs
• Working through codependency, enabling, or the exhausting work of detaching with love
• A counselor, therapist, or recovery professional who wants to understand the family's side
• Looking for a short, honest read for a support group, a waiting room, or your own healing

Discussion questions follow each story, so it works as easily for an Al-Anon meeting or a book club as it does for a quiet night alone.

You cannot make your loved one better. But you can feel less alone, and you can learn to take care of yourself through all of it. That is what these pages are for.

Bibliographic Details

Title: I Love You, More: Short Stories of Addiction...
Publisher: Blake Cohen (edition )
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good