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| Lord, I am Not Worthy-When Addiction Comes Home |
July 23, 2021 |
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Before she became a Congresswoman, Madeleine Dean was a Pennsylvania state lawmaker, attorney, college professor, and mother of a Catholic family so devout her uncle, a priest, lived with them and held Mass in their home. By middle school, son Harry Cunnane experimented with drugs and alcohol that quickly derailed his life and nearly upended his family. Dean and Cunnane discuss their new double-memoir, “Under Our Roof: A Son’s Battle for Recovery; a Mother’s Battle for Her Son,” and discuss why they wanted to share this painful chapter with the public.
When Harry was in rehab, his counselors told him to expect a “miracle” -- some moment in his recovery where the pieces would fall together, the pain would recede and he would know life after addiction was not only possible but beautiful. Cunnane and his mother, Representative Madeleine Dean describe what people of faith, like themselves, can do to break the stereotype of addicts as weak or sinful or somehow immoral and treat them like the ill people they are.
Madeleine Dean. United States Representative (D) from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. and author of Under Our Roof: A Son’s Battle for Recovery; a Mother’s Battle for Her Son, from Convergent/Penguin Random House.
Hary Cunnane. Regional resource director for Caron Treatment Centers, and co-author of Under Our Roof.
U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean and her son Harry Cunnane
Convergent/Penguin Random House
Under Our Roof
Convergent/Penguin Random House
The arrangements of Erik Satie's Gymnopedie No.1 by Jaques Loussier (piano, Jazzfestitival Burghausen 2007), Shawn Hertel (guitar), and Wilfried Welti (ukelele)
are all shared under a Creative Commons By Attribution license.
as is Brad PKL by Blue Dot Sessions, and our closing music New Hope, by Audiobinger.
Remixes and original loops by Dissimilation Heavy Industries.
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