If you are a family member with a loved one who needs help, it is important to get support before you offer support.

In this episode, Chris and Danny discuss the importance and benefits that come when you Model Recovery, both for your addicted loved one and yourself. They talk about the importance of family members getting involved in recovery programs when their loved one is going through treatment. Chris and Danny share how it can help give the family member a leg up and increase the success rate of their loved one's recovery. Additionally, they enumerate the problems that arise when family members don't get involved in their own recovery program.

Episode Highlights

• Model recovery: Immediately talking to family members with addicted loved ones
• Benefits of a recovery program before your loved one returns home from treatment
• Having a game plan for addiction recovery
• Why family members need to adopt a program of recovery
• Dealing with family anxiety and recovery programs
• Urgency and intervention for addiction treatment
• Recovery support for families and friends of loved ones in treatment
• Exploring the dynamics of addiction and recovery in relationships
• Unconsciously repeating unresolved childhood issues
• Exploring supportive resources for addicted loved ones
• Why you should join a recovery program for yourself and your loved ones
• Adopting a recovery lifestyle
• Benefits of 12-Step Programs
• Co-Dependency and reclaiming yourself
• Creating awareness and decreasing negative aspects
• Awareness and shifting perspectives in recovery
• Intervention Process: Connecting to resources and supporting recovery

Links and Resources from this Episode

https://whyintervention.com/

https://twitter.com/whyintervention

https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?ref=br_rs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_twelve-step_groups

https://www.nedratawwab.com/set-boundaries-find-peace-1

Quotes

"We repeat what we don't repair. Inadvertently, I just find myself in this circumstance where I'm trying to unconsciously repair things that happened in my childhood without knowing what I'm doing and so, I just find myself in this repeat situation."

"The hardest choice is usually the correct one. The one that you don't wanna do is usually the one that you should do."

"It also can create this level of empathy that is so well suited for dealing with an addicted loved one that all of your interactions can begin to shift for the better because you realize that alcohol and drugs is that thing for them."