Barbara Theodosiou

Barbara Theodosiou is an advocate and author who founded The Addict’s Mom after addiction affected her own family. Without Shame gathers her family’s accounts of pain, trauma, connection, and recovery, presenting several voices rather than a single detached explanation. Simon & Schuster’s Hazelden page describes the book as family memoir and dates the edition in 2020. A White House Champions of Change profile documents Theodosiou’s creation of a support community for mothers and its work in education, advocacy, and peer connection. That public role gives the book a distinct foundation: its subject grows from lived family experience and sustained community work. Without Shame also precedes her companion support book Living Without Shame, which turns related concerns into practical activities for mothers. Theodosiou’s writing is therefore best understood at the intersection between memoir and advocacy, with family testimony used to illuminate the isolation that can accompany substance-use disorder and the value of honest conversation.