# Dear Jack - Addiction, Recovery, Healing & Alternative Treatment Methods This website offers valuable insight and resources for those families living with someone struggling with addiction or suffering from the loss of a loved one to the disease. The author's book chronicles her first-hand experience dealing with her son’s struggle with addiction and his subsequent death from an overdose. This is a generated ditto.site clone. It preserves captured page content, metadata, route structure, and static assets where available. ## Routes - [Dear Jack - Addiction, Recovery, Healing & Alternative Treatment Methods](https://www.dearjack.love/) - This website offers valuable insight and resources for those families living with someone struggling with addiction or suffering from the loss of a loved one to the disease. The author's book chronicles her first-hand experience dealing with her son’s struggle with addiction and his subsequent death from an overdose. - [I can’t stay quiet | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/1936-2) - I can’t stay quiet I do not know how often one writes a blog, and I don’t want to be annoying, but people/kids are dying everyday, so I can’t stay quiet. I have been contacted by mothers who have addicted kids (young adults) and mothers who have lost children due… - [Addiction | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/addiction) - [Drugs that Hurt | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/addiction-harmful-drugs) - [Drugs that Help | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/addiction-helpful-drugs) - [Alone we are a drop, together an ocean. | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/alone-drop-together-ocean) - Alone we are a drop, together an ocean. Ryunosuke Satoro There is so much to stand up for, to fight for. It is different for all of us.   What is it that will push us from our comfort zone, to rise up and make a difference? The causes go on… - [April 1 | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/april-1) - “April 1, 2015. It was a day like any other. Standing at my kitchen counter, I was making my coffee, breakfast underway for Grace. “Five more minutes,” she said. She always wants five more minutes to sleep.” “The phone rings. I hate the phone, it scares me.” Dear Jack, a love… - [Audio | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/audio) - [About Barbara | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/barbara) - [Documentary – Behind the Scenes [Current] | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/behind-the-scenes) - Follow along as the documentary progresses. Here we’ll be posting behind-the-scenes photos, raw video clips, etc. as they become available. Check back often! - [Blog | Dear Jack | Addiction Recovery and Healing](https://www.dearjack.love/blog) - [Trust Your Gut | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/blog-2) - Trust Your Gut How to Tell If Someone Close to You is Suffering from Addiction Most of us know by now that addiction is a disease and, tragically, that it can be a terminal one. Like any serious disease, catching addiction early in its progression can head off its most… - [Book Reviews | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/book-reviews) - [Cry Baby | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/cry-baby) - Cry Baby I have spent years working with counselors to sort out mine and my families challenges. I never felt like I had any problems or needed this but I went anyway. Talk, talk talk, blah blah blah. One hour 250.00, week after week, month after month, year after year.… - [Documentary – Hooked | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/documentary) - This website offers valuable insight and resources for those families living with someone struggling with addiction or suffering from the loss of a loved one to the disease. The author's book chronicles her first-hand experience dealing with her son’s struggle with addiction and his subsequent death from an overdose. - [Emotion is energy in motion | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/emotion-energy-motion) - Emotion is energy in motion. Moving energy through us, removing blocks can happen through ancient practices and traditions, but there are many ways. I used a very helpful practice called Intuitive Painting. My experience was with a facilitator who guided our group deeper into ourselves through the colors and shapes… - [Feature Film – Dear Jack | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/feature-film) - This website offers valuable insight and resources for those families living with someone struggling with addiction or suffering from the loss of a loved one to the disease. The author's book chronicles her first-hand experience dealing with her son’s struggle with addiction and his subsequent death from an overdose. - [Happy Holidays? | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/happy-holidays) - Happy Holidays? What are the grieving to do at this time of year?  Every feeling is magnified during the holidays.  Emotions swing from being able to make it through, to no I can’t do it. When I look at this photo it makes me happy.  The family all together celebrating each… - [Happy New Year? | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/happy-new-year-2018) - Happy New Year? Hello!  This is the first blog post on my new website www.dearjack.love.  My hope for this effort is to have an honest conversation about love, loss, grief, addiction, recovery and healing.  I can only share my experience and like people, every experience is unique to the individual.… - [Healing – Alternative | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/healing) - [Healing – Alternative | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/healing-alternative) - [Healing – Retreat | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/healing-retreat) - [Healing – Workshop | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/healing-workshop) - [I’ve Got Your Back | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/ive-got-back) - I’ve Got Your Back I have found myself in areas so foreign to me. I decided to chronicle my and Jack’s life in a book, Dear Jack, that releases hopefully, April 1.  April 1 is significant as it will be three years since my twenty one year old son, Jack,… - [About Jack | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/jack) - [Kali Ma | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/kali-ma) -   “With Kali energy, I lifted Jack into the front seat. That’s what it had to be. Jack was two hundred and twenty pounds, and I lifted him into the car. He was so messed up. He couldn’t walk. I didn’t know what to do. I was distraught. I drove… - [About Martha’s Vineyard | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/marthas-vineyard) - [Recovery – Non Traditional Treatment | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/non-traditional-treatment) - [Privacy Policy | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/privacy-policy) - PRIVACY POLICY SECTION 1 - WHAT DO WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION? When you purchase services from our company, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address. When you browse our website, we also automatically receive your computer’s internet protocol (IP) address… - [rəˈɡret | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/r%c9%99%cb%88%c9%a1ret) - regret |rəˈɡret| verb (regrets, regretting, regretted) feel sad, repentant, or disappointed over (something that has happened or been done, especially a loss or missed opportunity) Certainly grief is the deepest emotion I thought. It cannot be described. It is like pain but it has no physical origin. If there was, perhaps… - [rəˈɡret | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/r%C9%99%CB%88%C9%A1ret) - regret |rəˈɡret| verb (regrets, regretting, regretted) feel sad, repentant, or disappointed over (something that has happened or been done, especially a loss or missed opportunity) Certainly grief is the deepest emotion I thought. It cannot be described. It is like pain but it has no physical origin. If there was, perhaps… - [Resources – Addiction and Recovery | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/resources) - [Resources – Addiction and Recovery | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/resources-addiction-recovery) - [Resources – Grief and Loss | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/resources-grief-loss) - [Page not found | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/shop) - [Stand in your truth | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/stand-in-your-truth) - Stand in your truth   “She invited me, when Jack was struggling, to a prayer breakfast in Norwalk.  The speaker was a man named Gary Mendell.  He began the organization Shatterproof after his son died, gripped by addiction, after he was one year clean.  I listened and ate breakfast, but… - [Team Jack – Events | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/team-jack) - [Team Jack – Events | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/team-jack-events) - [#teamjack blog | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/teamjack-blog) - Team Jack, let’s do this! “Alone we are a drop, together we are an ocean”   64,000 Americans died of opioid overdose in 2016. Following posting my new website www.dearjack.love yesterday I had a huge outreach of support and love. But the alarming thing is, friends from near and far… - [Terms and Conditions | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/terms-and-conditions) - TERMS OF SERVICE OVERVIEW This website is operated by Dear Jack. Throughout the site, the terms “we”, “us” and “our” refer to Dear Jack. Dear Jack offers this website, including all information, tools and services available from this site to you, the user, conditioned upon your acceptance of all terms,… - [Thirty Days | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/thirty-days) - Thirty Days   There are 15,000 rehab centers in the United States! Can you even wrap your head around it. 15,000! I searched constantly for the best centers to help Jack with his addiction. I started with a non-rehab, NOLS National Outdoor Leadership School. Having had ineffective experience with the… - [Recovery – Traditional Treatment | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/traditional-treatment) - [Recovery – Treatment Alternaties | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/treatment-alternatives) - [Trust your gut | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/trust-your-gut) - Trust Your Gut How to Tell If Someone Close to You is Suffering from Addiction The all-important question this raises is how to determine if someone close to you is using or suffering from addiction.  Most of us know by now that addiction is a disease and, tragically, that it… - [Videos | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/videos) - [We All Need Water | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/we-all-need-water) - “And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.” John F. Kennedy I know for certain that I need to be in the presence of water. I have lived by the water where I… - [We are all recovering from something | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/we-are-all-recovering-from-something) - Developing my website, I decided to have a resource section to provide the interested with information I found and continue to find in my search for helpful tools. The whole website is designed to be a resource actually. But what I realized was, the books, articles and websites for recovery… - [What the F@#!K | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/what-the-fk) - What the F@#!K While writing my book Dear Jack, a love letter, I used my own style of writing, which is the way I speak. There is no fan fare, my vocabulary is average, my descriptions are perhaps not as flowery and refined as an experienced writer/author. So, I just… - [February | 2018 | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/2018/02) - [May | 2019 | Dear Jack](https://www.dearjack.love/2019/05) - [Blog | Dear Jack | Addiction Recovery and Healing | Page 2](https://www.dearjack.love/blog/page/2) ## Captured Content ### Dear Jack - Addiction, Recovery, Healing & Alternative Treatment Methods The Book Documentary About Addiction Recovery Healing Resources Media Team Jack Menu Heal From the Inside Dear Jack – A Love Letter - Amazon Bestseller! Available Now! The author, Barbara Bates Conroy, shares her highly personal and tragic experiences with drug addiction, family discord, loss, and grief related to the tragic passing of her son, Jack, at age 21 from a heroin overdose. Buy The Book The Documentary... View the Documentary Ho’oponopono I’m sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you About The Author Barbara Bates Conroy is a mother, advocate, and author of the best-selling book Dear Jack: A Love Letter . When her son Jack passed away from a heroin overdose in 2015, Barbara c ### I can’t stay quiet | Dear Jack The Book Documentary About Addiction Recovery Healing Resources Media Team Jack Menu I can’t stay quiet I do not know how often one writes a blog, and I don’t want to be annoying, but people/kids are dying everyday, so I can’t stay quiet . I have been contacted by mothers who have addicted kids (young adults) and mothers who have lost children due to the disease and opioid overdose. Having been on both sides of this tragic situation, I can’t stay quiet. This is life or death. I wish I could do more. I just listen and hold space as these stories pour in. I am having coffee tomorrow with a woman who lost her son the week before Christmas. What words of comfort can I possibly offer her. None. S ### Addiction | Dear Jack The Book Documentary About Addiction Recovery Healing Resources Media Team Jack Menu Addiction A summary from the Shatterproof Website “ The disease of addiction claims more than 135,000 lives annually, making it the third largest cause of death in the United States, after heart disease and cancer. More than twenty two million Americans suffer from addiction. At least one hundred million Americans suffer directly or indirectly from the disease, nearly one in three Americans. Those who are suffering from the disease and the millions who love them find their lives shattered.” Shatterproof.org Shatterproof.org is a national non-profit dedicated to reducing the devastation that addiction to pres ### Drugs that Hurt | Dear Jack The Book Documentary About Addiction Recovery Healing Resources Media Team Jack Menu Addiction – Drugs that Hurt Drugs that hurt content coming soon! 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Quick Links: Terms Privacy Dear Jack – This website offers valuable insight and resources for those families living with someone struggling with addiction or suffering from the loss of a loved one to the disease. The author has written a book that chronicles her first-hand experience dealing with her son’s struggle with addiction and his subsequent death from an overdose. Within these pages you will find a host of helpful resources and tools f ### Alone we are a drop, together an ocean. | Dear Jack The Book Documentary About Addiction Recovery Healing Resources Media Team Jack Menu Alone we are a drop, together an ocean . Ryunosuke Satoro There is so much to stand up for, to fight for. It is different for all of us. What is it that will push us from our comfort zone, to rise up and make a difference? The causes go on and on. Fighting for health reform, rising up against addiction and its stigma, fighting for gun control, standing up against bullying, the good fight against global warming, no GMOs, equality in the work place, #nomore #metoo. Well, alone we are only one drop. But every drop counts! How do we unite to support each other in the campaign to fight the fight. Well, I don’t kn ### April 1 | Dear Jack The Book Documentary About Addiction Recovery Healing Resources Media Team Jack Menu “ April 1, 2015 . It was a day like any other. Standing at my kitchen counter, I was making my coffee, breakfast underway for Grace. “Five more minutes,” she said. She always wants five more minutes to sleep.” “The phone rings. I hate the phone, it scares me.” Dear Jack, a love letter. April 1, 2018 . This is a day like any other. Three years since Jack’s death and everyday feels the same. Waking up to the thought that I have lost my son. All my fears have been realized, now I’m not afraid of anything. My regret and grief is part of my daily routine. My continued practice of meditation, writing, journaling h ### Audio | Dear Jack The Book Documentary About Addiction Recovery Healing Resources Media Team Jack Menu Audio Contact Info: Dear Jack – A Love Letter For media inquiries, please contact dearjack@high10media.com . Quick Links: Terms Privacy Dear Jack – This website offers valuable insight and resources for those families living with someone struggling with addiction or suffering from the loss of a loved one to the disease. The author has written a book that chronicles her first-hand experience dealing with her son’s struggle with addiction and his subsequent death from an overdose. Within these pages you will find a host of helpful resources and tools for navigating through these difficult times and recovering