5/28/2023 0 Comments Raising the Bottom by Lisa BoucherThirteen months later, they were both dead. Over the course of one month, my husband was diagnosed with terminal cancer and my brother was diagnosed with AIDS-in 1991 this was a death sentence. I had an interesting career in the media, a doting husband and two precious little daughters. I also hope it is a resource for people suffering in similar ways. As painful as it was to live through it all again, it became a therapeutic part of the grieving process and my recovery from addiction. Originally, I wrote it because I am a journalist and I had a story to tell. Rosemary has been clean and sober since 2002.ฤก) Why did you write The Art of Losing It: A Memoir of Grief and Addiction? Heartrending but ultimately hopeful, The Art of Losing It is the story of a struggling mother who finds her way-slowly, painfully-from one side of grief and addiction to the other. This is the nucleus of The Art of Losing It: a young mother jerking from emergency to emergency as the men in her life drop dead around her a high-functioning radio show host waging war with her addictions while trying to raise her two little girls who just lost their daddy and finally, a stint in rehab and sobriety that ushers in a fresh brand of chaos instead of the tranquility her family so desperately needs. When her brother dies of AIDS and her husband dies of cancer in the same year, Rosemary is left on her own with two young daughters and antsy addiction demons dancing in her head.
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