Help Families Navigate a Loved One’s 1st Year of Recovery

Help Families Navigate the 1st Year of Recovery

Help families navigate a loved one’s 1st year of recovery from addiction is critical to family members’ health and well-being. Just because their loved one started recovery is not going to take care of what happened to them.  Why is this so important to understand? Nearly 100 million Americans and hundreds of millions more worldwide…

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Substance Use Disorder Recovery Needs to be a Family Affair

For some family members, it's difficult to forgive and forget a loved one - even after years of sobriety.

Substance use disorder recovery needs to be a family affair for one simple reason. A person’s substance use disorder (SUD (whether it involves alcohol or other drug) affects nearly every member of a family.  Much of my work has been around raising awareness of the little understood fact and the importance of treating both “sides”…

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Guest Author William G. Borchert Shining the Light on Family Addiction

Today’s guest author, William G. Borchert, is shining the light on family addiction. As readers of BreakingThecycles.com well know, this disease affects not only the person who has the substance use disorder (aka addiction), but it affects their families. Together, they represent approximately 120 million Americans – that’s roughly one-third the American population! So it is with great…

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Communication is Important in Long term Recovery

“We all know how important communication is to relationships in general, but when you’re in a relationship with someone in recovery, it’s absolutely vital,” writes today’s guest author, Nadine Herring.  Nadine is the owner of Virtually Nadine, a virtual assistant company that provides online administrative support and social media management to addiction specialists and social service…

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Recovery Can Be a Gift

Addiction affects an entire family and so does recovery. I first ‘met’ John McMahon, PhD, who lives in the UK, when he replied to my blog post, “After Years of Sobriety, She/He Won’t Forgive or Forget,” recently. We exchanged a few emails, and I learned that he and his wife, Lou, a counselor, founded the website,…

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