Saturday, August 30, 2014

WELCOME--AND I'M SORRY YOU ARE HERE

My name is Bonnie Kaye. I am a counselor and have worked in the field of relationship counseling for over 30 years. I am also the mother of a daughter lost to me at the age of 22 from her three-and-a-half year journey with the drug heroin. In my new book "Jennifer Needle in Her Arm" I talk about the pain that the parents of children go through as their children are sitting and killing themselves day by day. There is nothing worse than feeling helpless to save your drowning child. There is nothing worse than wondering what kind of a parent you were not to see a pain in your child that was so great that he or she had to get numb with needles in their arms, fingers, feet, and toes. 

Jennifer died in 2002. It has taken me 12 years to finish writing my story, her story, our story and her words into a book that would help others come to terms with this disaster. I hope that by sharing stories, we can connect on our road to recovery and overcome the pain that comes with the death of a child. Welcome along for the ride on the recovery train.