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Recovery for Parents Dealing with Addiction in their Families

# She had a choice - Let her son’s addiction kill her or Make changes in her life

December 4, 2025 by Dave Cooke

What happens when a mom does everything she can, on her own, to save her son from his addiction?

When she realized it made no sense to try to take her son into a recovery “battle he is not willing to fight”?

What she did once he decided it was time to change his life!

- Learn how this mom experiences a massive transformation in her life.

Discover how she went from a place of complete self-denial, even protecting her family from the truth and reality of her son’s addiction, to a incredible wake-up call in the form of a heart attack. Today, mother and son are sharing a different, more inspiring, hopeful story about love, parenting, and addiction.

From “I am that mother who sits in church and says I don’t care what happens to me, please take care of my child.”

To “Its not okay to put your child before you at any cost…”

Links of interest:

Anita Devlin’s Website and Blog

Addiction: Video Series

Addiction Video #2: “The Voicemail”

Check out this episode!

Filed Under: Addiction Conversation Podcast
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