Love Her As She Is: Lessons from a Daughter Stolen by Addictions

A mother and a daughter share their struggle: the mother to connect with a distance and cocaine-addicted daughter and the daughter to believe she deserves the love offered. Topics covered include the pain of traumatic hildhood, Attention Deficit Disorder, parenting, adoption, and the world of drugs, street life and jail. Guidance, in the form of fourteen lessons, is provided for changing strained relationship dynamics. For those entering the "real world" after jail or recovery, transitional information and direction are offered. Most of all the reader will be shown how to turn hope into loving action.