Dear Jack: A Love Letter

Dear Jack Barbara writes to her son. Through these letters and raw prose sections relating to them she recounts the past and explores questions of motherhood responsibility guilt and spirituality. In Dear Jack: A Love Letter to My Son Barbara Bates Conroy shares her highly personal and tragic experiences with drug addiction family discord loss and grief. When her son Jack passed away from a heroin overdose in 2015 after struggling with substance abuse for years Barbara continued to write letters to him. She always had ever since he was a baby through his difficult teenage years. It seemed the only thing to do: to keep writing to him to keep trying to reach him. When her son died the unimaginable for a parent Barbara invested herself in grief workshops and alternative healing modalities and found herself on a new spiritual path one that proved crucial to moving her life forward and to coping with her past. With the aid of psychics mediums intuitives and her cultivated powers of introspection and recognition Barbara comes to terms with her own pain and power as well as Jacks. Her unconventional memoir is an intimate moving and unforgettable story.*All proceeds from Dear Jack go to The Jackson Scott Conroy Foundation which was established following the tragic death of Jackson from an overdose at the age of twenty one. The Foundation is dedicated to support teens and young adults suffering from opioid and heroin addiction. Costly treatment centers are often out of reach and we will award scholarships and partial scholarships to fund treatment through an application process.