Finding Peace

What do you do when the child you love is battling addiction, mental health challenges, or
both—and no one prepares you for the heartbreak that follows?

In Finding Peace When Your Child Is Hurting, licensed therapist, wife, mother, and GiGi Angela
Smith Teal offers a deeply personal and hope-filled account of her family's journey through
addiction, mental health challenges, and healing. With honesty, vulnerability, and unwavering
faith, she shares the fears, questions, setbacks, and victories that shaped her family's path toward restoration.
More than a memoir, this book is a compassionate companion for parents and caregivers who
feel overwhelmed, exhausted, or alone. Through personal stories, practical insights, reflection
questions, Scripture, prayers, and encouragement, Angela gently reminds readers that while they
cannot control another person's choices, they can learn to care for their own hearts, strengthen their faith, and find peace in the midst of uncertainty.
Whether your child is struggling with addiction, depression, anxiety, trauma, or another mental
health challenge, this book offers reassurance that you are not alone. It acknowledges the often-
unspoken pain parents carry while providing hope that healing is possible—for individuals, for
families, and for relationships.