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The Joey Song
- A Mother's Story of Her Son's Addiction
- Narrated by: Lori Felipe-Barkin
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
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Publisher's Summary
There can be recovery, even if it doesn't happen within the addict. Sandy lives where love and addiction meet - a place where help enables and hope hurts. When addiction steals her son, Sandy fights for his survival, trying to stay on the right side of an invisible line between helping him to live and helping him to die. By age 20, Joey overdoses, attempts suicide, quits college, survives a near-fatal car accident, does time behind bars, and is kicked out of rehab more than once. Increasingly manipulative, delusional, and hateful, the sweet Joey from childhood is lost to the addict wearing his face.
Working with an interventionist, a judge, and tracking Joey's movements online, Sandy does what she can to save Joey from himself until it hurts more to hang on than it hurts to let go. Through Family Programs, Al-Anon, reading, and learning from her mistakes, Sandy discovers that sometimes love means doing nothing, and that letting go is not the same thing as giving up. She also learns that she needs to work on surviving her son's addiction while coming to terms with the fact that he may not.
Years pass. Friends and family no longer ask about Joey; they no longer know what to say. Joey is not in recovery, but Sandy works on hers, trying to keep the poison that is consuming Joey from destroying the rest of her family and her life. She starts a program to teach young men living in a group home how to budget, grocery shop, and cook, hoping that someone will someday help her own son in some way that she cannot. As in the song she sang to him so many times, Sandy keeps Joey down in her heart to stay. There is a place in her life that is exactly his size. One she hopes he will someday want to fill.
This is the poignant story of a defiant addict and the mother who won't give up on him. She finally realizes that it hurts more to hang on than to let go, and that letting go is not the same thing as giving up.
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- Angela Kellar
- 2018-09-20
Heartfelt
This book was written by a mother. It really show the hardships and the roller coaster ride you go on when a loved one is an addict.
Loved it and love audible.
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- Gail C
- 2023-08-23
Highly Recommended
This is one of the best audio book I’ve listened to. The narration was perfect as was the book. I couldn’t stop listening. It was so heartfelt and well written.
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- Sharri Beam
- 2021-04-21
Highly recommend
Loved it! Highly recommend this book to any parent struggling with their childs addiction.
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- Karen
- 2020-02-13
From Sandra's heart to mine!
The author has a way with words, transforming them from mere words to the feelings in my heart. I felt her fight, I live her fight, I know her fight all too well. I too am a fighter, a lover, a champion for my "lost" causes. Thru her vulnerability of putting her words to my ears, I too am on the path, where I too must learn to champion the cause, but not allow myself to become one of the casualties.
Sandra, thank you for sharing your pain, your thoughts, your feelings, your experience in such an eloquent way!! In doing so, for the 1st time in a long time, I realize I'm not alone!
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