ADDICTED TO HOPE

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Anyone who loves somebody suffering from addiction should pick up Mitchum and Denofio's 2022 biography </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Addicted to Hope</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>: a chronicle of Michelle Mulledy's life as the wife of an addict.  </span></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A journey into self-discovery and self-confidence Michelle's story gives real hope to families supporting loved ones battling addiction.   </span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Watching her husband build a million-dollar business and then sink to the depths of living homeless on the streets of Boston Michelle finds her faith and herself.</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>While supporting her loved one through recovery and coping with his relapses Michelle learns the importance of caring for oneself.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Often in unexpected and wondrous ways Michelle leaves behind the isolation of addiction to experience the warmth of her spiritual community embracing her.  </span></li></ul><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>About the Authors:</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jo Anne Mitchum</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jo Anne Mitchum a Marriage and Family Therapist began working in the mental health field as a crisis counselor helping clients with drug and alcohol addiction. Jo Anne now spends her time writing and helping couples achieve a deeper sense of understanding empathy and connectedness within their relationships. Jo Anne</span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> lives in Upstate New York with her husband mother and two dogs. When she's not working she enjoys spending time with her son daughter-in-law and 3 grandchildren.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Nancy Duci Denofio</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A writer most of her life Nancy Duci Denofio's work is published in numerous publications in the United States and abroad such as University of Hull in England New Hampshire Poetry Society Hudson Valley Writer's and more. Her previous books What Brought You Here and Grandmother's Bleeding Hearts are collections of her poetry. Nancy has worked with writers around the world on presentation and how to read their work in public. Nancy and her husband have two daughters and five grandchildren.</span></p><p></p>