Review\n"Keven's Choice is a profound book...beautiful, sad, joyful—a searingly honest portrayal of a family many of us can relate to. This book will provide solace and inspiration to countless readers. It's about substance use and being a parent. Ultimately, it's about love." 
-David Sheff, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy and Clean\n"Keven's Choice is a heartbreaking story about loving someone with substance use disorder. Legere's remarkable work leaves you with a deeper appreciation of life's blessings." 
-Ed Kressy, professional speaker and author of My Addiction & Recovery\nWhen Barbara Legere's son Keven begged her for permission to die, she refused.\nKeven had spent half his life struggling with substance use disorder while his single mom battled courts, healthcare companies, rehab facilities and mental health professionals in an effort to protect him. As their relationship strained Keven's drug use progressed, Legere was forced to accept and love Keven as he was in their limited time together-two years before he took his own life.\nIn Keven's Choice, Legere tells the story of trying to navigate her son's dark world while also addressing her own complicated guilt and regret over how she handled it. In the process, she shines a light on the hidden anguish of countless parents who are taking care of children that society tells them to abandon.\nFor parents who have borne witness to overdoses, arrests, treatment, incarceration and even death, Keven's Choice is a raw and intimate memoir that shows it's possible and necessary to go on, even amidst the unimaginable.

Keven's Choice: A Mother's Journey Through Her Son's Mental Illness, Addiction and Suicide

Self-Help

Legere, Barbara

Death & Grief

Barbara L Legere

Review\n"Keven's Choice is a profound book...beautiful, sad, joyful—a searingly honest portrayal of a family many of us can relate to. This book will provide solace and inspiration to countless readers. It's about substance use and being a parent. Ultimately, it's about love." 
-David Sheff, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy and Clean\n"Keven's Choice is a heartbreaking story about loving someone with substance use disorder. Legere's remarkable work leaves you with a deeper appreciation of life's blessings." 
-Ed Kressy, professional speaker and author of My Addiction & Recovery\nBarbara Legere takes readers on an eyewitness journey into the world of addiction and mental illness. Her son, Keven, spent half his life suffering from substance abuse disorders, depression, and anxiety, while she struggled to get him help from courts, healthcare providers, rehab facilities, and mental health professionals. 
In Keven’s Choice, Legere tells the story of trying to navigate her son’s dark world while also addressing her related stress, worry and guilt. In the process, she shines a light on the hidden anguish of countless parents who are taking care of children that society tells them to abandon. 
Legere offers empathy and compassion to parents and those impacted by addiction and mental illness. It is her hope to reduce the stigma surrounding people who suffer as she writes candidly about her son's life and eventual suicide. 
For parents who have borne witness to overdoses, arrests, treatment, incarceration and even death, Keven’s Choice is a raw and intimate memoir that shows it’s possible and necessary to go on, even amidst the unimaginable.

Legacy Launch Pad Publishing

Talk to Me I'm Grieving: Supportive Ways to Help Someone Through Grief

The Empowered Press

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