Addiction Recovery Family

Family Addiction: Develop healthy boundaries to protect your health, foster empathy for the person with an addiction, and help them from rock bottom to recovery. Imagine a home filled with love, peace, and understanding — even in the face of addiction. If you're tired of sleepless nights, constant worry, or walking on eggshells around your loved one, you're not alone. Addiction impacts millions of families, but recovery and harmony are possible. This audiobook offers a compassionate, practical roadmap to reclaim your family's peace and support your loved one's journey toward healing.

When Jason Coombs' mother discovered her son was addicted to drugs and alcohol, she searched everywhere for resources and guidance that would grant her a spark of hope. She researched websites on the topic only to find a mixed bag of mediocre suggestions and an array of conflicting opinions. She was desperate for tools that could drive measurable results. Unhooked is the book, written by her recovered son, now leading his own treatment center, she wishes would have been available back then.

I Love You, More offers insight into the various perspectives and experiences of family members who have dealt with the harrowing disease of addiction. The goal of this quick, accessible book is to be the conduit that allows you to enter the body and mind of a substance abuser and their family, to see the world through their eyes as they navigate their way through one of the most heart-breaking and gut-wrenching hardships they will ever face.

Unlock the secrets to understanding and overcoming the complex web of dysfunctional family dynamics in this comprehensive guide, "Understanding Dysfunctional Family Dynamics." Navigate through the intricate layers of family relationships and uncover the patterns that disrupt harmony and well-being. Begin your journey with a broad introduction to dysfunctional family dynamics, where you will learn to define dysfunction, understand its profound impact on family members, and recognize recurring patterns. Delve into the past with a deep dive into historical family patterns, exploring ...

George Diener, World War II veteran and traveling salesman, and his wife, Carol, had old-fashioned values and ordinary aspirations: a home, a family, the pleasure of watching their two sons grow up. But in February 1972, an unthinkable tragedy occurred in the basement of their Nassau County residence, shattering their hopes and dreams forever.

From Passing the Bar to Living in his Car ... Lawyer and former law professor Peter Panelli suddenly finds himself homeless, eventually living in a crack house. And he doesn't even smoke crack. And an accidental trip to church landed him in the crack house. (Yes, really; I'm not lying to you.) Can it get any more surreal, or worse? “This story is as mad as a box of frogs.” – Unknown Human Being (aka Anonymous) Written in a humorous, reflective voice, highlighting Panelli’s bewilderment and self-searching, ADDICT’S WAY chronicles a year in the life of Peter Panelli, a 60-year-old ...

Break Free from Gambling Addiction – Reclaim Your Life, Finances, and Peace of Mind If you feel trapped in a cycle of compulsive gambling, you're not alone—and you're not beyond help. The Gambling Addiction Recovery Book is your complete guide to understanding, confronting, and recovering from gambling addiction using proven strategies, therapeutic techniques, and real-world solutions. In this updated, practical recovery guide, you’ll learn how to: ✔️ Understand the psychological and neurological roots of gambling addiction and how it rewires your brain ✔️ Break the habit with...

As the heart-wrenching personal stories in this book reveal, family members do not cause their loved one's addiction. Nor can they control or cure addiction. What family members can do is find support, set boundaries, detach with love, and eventually discover how to enjoy life whether their loved one finds recovery or not. Addict in the Family is a book about sorrow, deception, and pain. More importantly, it is a book of comfort, hope, and understanding for anyone struggling with a loved one's addiction.

The ACA Fellowship Text was anonymously written by ACA members and provides guidance on working the 12 -step ACA program, leading to recovery from the effects of growing up in an alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional family. ACA WSO has adapted AA's steps (with permission from AA) to address the effects of childhood trauma and neglect and offer hope to ACAs worldwide.

A standard-setting book on intervention, Love First has helped tens of thousands of families, friends, and professionals create a loving and effective plan for helping those who suffer from addiction. This revised and expanded edition adds to the core material in this classic book with the most up-to-date scientific information and new intervention techniques for alcohol and other drug addictions.

An unflinching and hilarious memoir about recovery as a mother of young kids, Bottled explains the perils moms face with drinking and chronicles the author's path to recovery, from hitting bottom to the months of early sobriety - a blur of pain and chaos - to her now (in)frequent moments of peace. Punctuated by potent, laugh-out-loud sarcasm, Bottled offers practical suggestions on how to be a sober, present-in-the-moment mom, one day at a time, and provides much needed levity on an issue too often treated with deadly seriousness.

Acute trauma and addictive disorders are often a result of psychological injuries experienced as a child, while typically producing long-term and harmful generational consequences on loved ones and other family members. Claudia Black presents a portrait of a broken family system, exploring how addiction and trauma develop in families, their damaging repetition, and offers a roadmap for healing.

The Complete ACOA Sourcebook is a compilation of three of Dr. Woititz's classic books, addressing head-on the symptoms of The Adult Children of Alcoholics syndrome and providing strategies for living a normal life as an adult. Listeners will find help for themselves: at home, in intimate relationships, and on the job. They will discover the reasons for the way they think, believe, and feel about themselves; ACOAs often feel isolated, have difficulty in relationships, in the workplace, and in feeling good about themselves.

Loving Lions provides listeners with a glimpse into the darkness and confusion of addiction, from both the addict's perspective and the family's experience. The author provides a detailed description of his journey through active addiction, and the recovery process that led him back to his family, and to his future as the founder of Baystate Recovery Services.

Learn How To Help An Alcoholic Alcoholism affects everybody. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do, if you know an alcoholic, your life will change. Interpersonal relationships will suffer, recovery will stagnate, and families will crumble. Coping with an alcoholic can be the most trying thing in the world, damaging us emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and even physically. Alcoholism and the family can never go hand-in-hand. But it can be treated. Alcohol addiction recovery is possible. Whether coping with an alcoholic spouse, living in an alcoholic family, struggling with an ...

Al-Anon's basic book discusses the mutual-help program of recovery, including personal stories. A beginning approach to the Twelve Concepts of Service is included.

In "Understanding Addiction: A Guide for Families," Jessica Hulsey shares her own family's struggles with addiction to help dispel myths and misinformation about addiction. Based on decades of research and experience, she offers pragmatic suggestions for dealing with substance use disorders, from understanding levels of severity and diagnosis, evidence-based treatment options, relapse prevention strategies, and resources for family members.

Is someone else's problem your problem? If, like so many others, you've lost sight of your own life in the drama of tending to a loved one’s self-destructive behavior, you may be codependent—and you may find yourself in this book. With personal reflections, exercises, and instructive stories drawn from Beattie’s own life and the lives of those she’s counseled, Codependent No More helps you break old patterns and maintain healthy boundaries, and offers a clear and achievable path to healing, hope, freedom, and happiness.

When addiction hits a family, it’s damage can be severe. Just as a hurricane-force storm devastates a physical home, the “storm” of addiction can bring destruction to everyone involved. Christian Families in Recovery will help you take a deeper look at the nature of addiction and recovery from a Christ-centered perspective. By learning the tools of intervention, you can love the addict, but establish an environment that will not support the addiction. Not only that, the heart of God seeks to reconcile and restore, even if only one member participates in recovery. Gaining this ...

Exploring the process of recovery from addiction as it affects the entire family, this audiobook presents an innovative model for understanding and treating families navigating this difficult period. The authors draw upon extensive clinical and research experience to demonstrate how families can be helped to regroup after abstinence, weather periods of emotional upheaval, and find their way to establishing a more stable, yet flexible, family system.