“Beautiful Boy” Author David Sheff Joins Decoder as Guest Blogger
We are thrilled here at the Partnership to have David Sheff, parent and author of “Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction,” as a guest blogger on our parent-to-parent blog, Decoder.
“Beautiful Boy” is an insightful memoir detailing David’s oldest son’s descent into a methamphetamine addiction. “Beautiful Boy” was also selected by Starbucks Entertainment as the next book to be sold in its more than 7,000 company-operated locations in the U.S, and for which David will embark on a 9-city book tour beginning February 26th in New York City.
Here’s a brief video clip of David. Check back soon or subscribe to the blog feed so you can be alerted when David begins blogging.
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I wanted to say that I just finished reading Beautiful Boy and it was wonderful book. As a mother who’s going through the addiction/treatment problem of a child it helped. It helps to hear other people say the same things you feel. Thank you for writing this book.
Thank you for sharing your heart, David and Nic.
It’s so true, Janie. It does help to connect to people who are experiencing the same challenges. That connection serves as the platform that gives rise to healthy, action-oriented compassion and empathy. The illness will not respond favorably to empathy, absent consistent ACTIONS.
Connecting is pivotal for restored health in patient, family, community and societal context relating to addiction and depression. Healthy connection disables hopelessness. The physiological disease of addiction and depression is not as much the “enemy” as is the stigma and hopelessness that can overwhelm and travel tandem, if it’s allowed to. Positive, action-oriented strategies combined with responsible, dedicated, unconditional, love conceives “HOPE”. Increasing, proliferating hope suffocates hopelessness. Hope gives birth to ever increasing ACTIONS that replace the counterproductive energies swirling and expanding where hopelessness is allowed to rule. The energy in hopelessness drains ALL your resources then robs your will of it’s ability to ACT in healthy, dedicated, CONSISTENT connection. The cycle is, as much, rooted in clinical science as it is spiritual context.
Read + share=connection.
Connection + action-oriented compassion/empathy = HOPE.
Hope and consistent, healthy actions provide POWERFUL resources for prevention, treatment, and CURE culminating into better lived moments for us ALL.
Feeling connected through empathy is just the starting point…At that point lives immeasurable potential power. Disease neutralizing power. But this power is contained and eclipsed in the absence of consistent, healthy action-oriented, investments born of hope. The disease is clinical, not character-related. BE BOLD! Rebuke stigma at every level, (those stigmas born of self and radiating into societal scope) thus increase HOPE… thus connecting in action-oriented compassion onto that of increasing disease neutralizing resources…onto that of realizing prevention, treatment and CURE.
Not so distant future headline reads: “Vicious Cycle of Disease Suffocated, Falling Victim to a Proliferating Cycle of Stigma-absent, Action-oriented, Compassion.”
I have a 34 year old son who has a very bad addiction to meth…
This article was very helpful…I pray for a miracle…Thank you