Outskirts Press, INC.

Carol Anne Savage is a Licensed Mental Health Therapist who has spent a lifetime trying to understand the devastation of addiction. Realizing that no other parent should have to say “Goodbye” to a child whose addiction was just too powerful to overcome, she knew that resources had to be available. Her professional experience of having worked as an educator and therapist in various mental health facilities, emergency rooms, prison and now in private practice has armed this former Marine with an arsenal of information. In her first book, the author brazenly jumps out with a fierce determination that demands respect for the indisputable love a parent has for their child. As she moves in her straightforward and sometimes humorous approach to educate and empower parents and loved ones with the hope they will understand the disease of addiction, she teaches parents and loved ones how to utilize appropriate self care skills and reminds them to never lose sight of their child's potential. This first time author proves to be a force to reckon with as she writes from the mind of a psychotherapist, the courage of a Marine, and from the heart of a mother.