LOVING WHEN THEY'RE LOST: A Book About Parenting Your Parent, Becoming the Protector, and Learning to Love Someone Through the Fog

LOVING WHEN THEY'RE LOSTWhat happens when the parent becomes the child? This powerful, deeply moving book is for every adult who has had to parent their own parent. Whether you are watching someone fade into dementia, struggle with mental illness, drown in past trauma, or reconnecting with a birth parent only to realize you are now their caregiver — this book speaks directly to you.Through the interconnected stories of real families navigating impossible situations, "Loving When They're Lost" explores the full weight of caregiving: the denial that comes before crisis, the hard decisions that break your heart, the grief of losing someone who is still alive, the financial and emotional toll of showing up every single day, and the profound love that keeps you reaching even when reaching feels pointless.You will meet Sam and his wife Nadia, watching cognitive decline steal the man she married. You will meet James, a war veteran carrying PTSD in silence. You will meet Renee, managing bipolar disorder while raising her children alone. You will meet Robert, fighting addiction while his family fights to save him. You will meet Marissa, learning to let go of her mother with dignity. You will meet Shirley, a caregiver for thirty-two years who discovers that the village we build for others must also hold us.And in every story, you will find yourself.This is not a book about fixing what cannot be fixed. It is a book about loving someone through the falling of the pieces. About building a village when you cannot carry the weight alone. About the sacred work of parenting your parent with grace, dignity, and the full knowledge that you are not alone in this journey.If you are standing in the fog right now, reaching for someone you love who is lost, this book was written for you. It will tell you clearly: your story matters. You are not a failure. And there is a village standing beside you.**Because loving someone when they are lost is one of the most sacred, difficult, and beautiful things a human being can do. And you deserve to know that you are never, ever doing it alone.** Read more