185 - Detaching With Love: A Mother’s Journey Through Addiction & Grief w/ Patsy Creedy

Patsy Creedy is the author of Boy, Man, Bird: Anatomy of Addiction Boy, Man, Bird is a mother's story of losing her son to a drug overdose. It is the story of a family struggling to find their post divorce shape and it is about love, in all its manifestations, disappointments, and beauty.

It is a cautionary tale of how love could not stop the devastation of addiction that explodes their fragile family. It is also a story of the reconfiguration that is possible, even after living through the loss of a child, every mother's biggest fear. There is message of hope in Boy, Man, Bird for all the mothers, fathers and children who are losing people every day to the opioid epidemic.

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