🕯️My Child Is An Addict – Navigating Through Your Child's Addiction

If you are the parent of a child struggling with addiction, this book was written for you.

Not to fix your child.
Not to tell you what you should have done differently.
Not to judge you for how you’ve survived.

But to speak honestly to the fear, guilt, exhaustion, and heartbreak that parents often carry in silence.

You love your child — and yet addiction has pulled you into a life of constant worry, late-night phone calls, sleepless nights, and the crushing belief that somehow this is your fault.
If that feels familiar, you are not alone.

My Child Is an Addict was written by a father who lived this experience firsthand.
It offers truth without judgment, guidance without platitudes, and compassion grounded in lived experience — not theory.

This is not a book about fixing your child, because if that were possible, you would have already done it.

Instead, this book gently helps parents recognize the emotional traps that quietly keep them stuck, including:

• Shame and self-blame
• Guilt and constant second-guessing
• Rescuing and trying to control outcomes
• Enabling without meaning to
• Emotional exhaustion from living on constant alert
• You’ll learn why these responses are human, why they do not make you weak, and how to begin caring for yourself without abandoning your child.

Inside these pages, many parents find:

• A sense of relief from constant self-blame
• Permission to step off the exhausting cycle of hope and despair
• Language for feelings they haven’t been able to explain
• A way to set boundaries without guilt
• A place to rest emotionally, even if nothing else feels settled

This book focuses on your healing — regardless of what your child chooses.

Written as an honest conversation from one parent to another, My Child Is an Addict is not about solutions, timelines, or advice you didn’t ask for.

It is about being understood.

If you are hanging on by a thread, you are not failing — and you do not have to carry this alone.