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When Robin Monson-Dupuis, psychotherapist and substance abuse counselor, loses her son to a heroin overdose after an eight-year journey trying to help him stay alive, it shatters everything in her world. She finds her beliefs tested: her role as a mother, her faith, her marriage, and her purpose in this world. Spirit Son: A Mother's Journey to Reconnect with Her Son After His Death From Heroin Overdose is a courageous memoir detailing one mother's story of surviving her unimaginable pain, beginning to heal, and even growing after her traumatic loss. This raw account of losing a child to the opioid epidemic and struggling to find peace offers honest analysis and reflections as well as a profound message of hope: that the everlasting bond between us and our loved ones can be embraced, even deepened, despite their physical death.

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Robin Monson-Dupuis is an extraordinary writer. Her informed and honest storytelling allows us to enter her life and understand her hurt as well as her healing. I carry her Spirit Son story in my heart. - JoEllyn Schultz, LCSW

Robin Monson-Dupuis is an extraordinary writer. Her informed and honest storytelling allows us to enter her life and understand her hurt as well as her healing. I carry her Spirit Son story in my heart. - JoEllyn Schultz, LCSW

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Robin Monson-Dupuis, LCSW, SAC, RYT, has been a psychotherapist and substance abuse counselor for over 30 years. She has been a leader in her workplaces, her church, and her community. She continues to travel on a journey of healing, often not knowing where that will take her, but trying to trust the process. Spirit Son is her first book.

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