Unraveled:
A Mother and Son Story of Addiction and Redemption

With intense courage and candor, mother and son coauthors, Laura and Tom Boldt, share the raw accounting of Tom’s journey into alcohol and drug addiction and how that trauma reverberated throughout their circle of family, friends, and extended family. The book also charts Laura, who has a backstory. She is more than a mother standing by watching the life of her promising young son come undone. She has struggled with alcohol addiction firsthand but remains emotionally and physically sober and present for her son during his collision course with disaster. The Boldt family’s love and compassion is palpable as they work their way through deep fear, sleepless nights, and crushing setbacks.

This is a riveting portrayal of the agonies of addiction and how one family faced their issues and found a stronger, more sustainable path forward. Many readers will undoubtedly see themselves in these stories and will come away with an abiding sense of hope—not just for Tommy and Laura, but for themselves, too.

The writing in Unraveled is brilliant and fresh, and the two voices working together and against each other makes Unraveled even more memorable. Tommy’s gift for zingy one-liners energizes the story and contrasts cleverly with Laura’s witty yet measured and concerned maternal tone.

Unraveled is a tale of chaos and near-death experiences that shares personal and private moments and the intense challenges and grueling work it takes to get sober and remain sober. It’s a unique story of a mother and son’s journey that ends with on-your-knees epiphanies that leave both parent and child asking for help. This tandem narrative is a compelling testimony of bravery and honesty that, with edgy and surprising humor, charts a family’s slow climb out of the abyss of pain into the full power of faith, redemption, and healing.

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The Unraveled Show

A hilarious, no holds barred interview show about addiction and alcohol. Hosted by the dynamic mother and son team Laura and Tommy Boldt (both rocking their own recovery journeys), this show is for anyone who is sick of the bullshit and wants to laugh while they do the work of recovery.

If this is you, we’re your show. We ask the hard questions, dig for the real truth, and always remember that healing, more often than not, can be a team effort. We interview addiction counselors, former addicts, authors, experts, and anyone with something to share and teach. Healing can seem very complicated and, at times, a little messy. Let’s do it together.

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