Why Family Recovery Matters More Than Ever
Why Family Recovery Matters More Than Ever
The COVID -19 pandemic has obscured the rising addiction epidemic. If you are supporting a loved one struggling with addiction today, this is the workshop for you.
Let me tell you a story of why the Being True To You Family Recovery Workshop matters.
Four months ago, I got a call from my sister on a Friday night: mom was in the hospital with a punctured eye, broken nose and eye socket. I had a long conversation that night with my mother. She cried and told me she was afraid. Zero mention of alcohol. We then discovered that my mom had been in and out of hospitals due to falls from blacking out after drinking. No one knew. We thought losing her eye would be the turning point. We were wrong.
Since, I have picked my mom up from the street, passed out, at 11am. I shuffled her 5 pieces of luggage wherever she went. I offered to pay for a sober living then watched as the day she got out of rehab, she went directly to a hotel to drink. I called the ER after finding her in a pile of feces, food rotting on the floor. I spent my mother ’s birthday wondering if she was alive. Trying to ‘rescue ’ my mom came at a heavy cost: I lost my job, my accommodation, my Airbnb account, and my car directly due to my mom. Through it all, I was racked with guilt: what if I had called more often, been kinder, wiser, more understanding, more patient, less angry? Maybe then she would want to get better.
Who does this concern?
This description will sound disturbing to some, and familiar to an increasing number of others. Since June 2020, 13% of Americans started or increased their substance use to cope with the pandemic. Overall alcohol consumption rose by 23% since the pandemic and heavy drinking rose by 41% amongst women (HealthLine). My mother is one of these women. I am fortunate though: my mom is still alive. Others are not so fortunate. The death rate from drug overdoses leaped nearly 30% in 2020 – the highest ever recorded in the US.
It ’s important to remember that you have options – and Being True To You ’s Family Recovery Workshop is unique in that they offer direct support to the family. How many programs help not only the addicted individual but the support network as well? The Family Recovery Workshop helps you understand the addictive mindset and develop your ability to support your loved one whilst maintaining your sanity and boundaries. More importantly, you’ll encounter a tribe of people who have experienced the despair that comes from watching someone you love self-destruct but grow from it in ways to transform themselves as well as their whole family.
So what is the Family Recovery Workshop?
COVID-19 and addiction are the two pandemics which are on the verge of collision causing major public health threat.
– (NCBI)
It ’s a 12-week workshop that is online, hands-on, kept confidential, and facilitated by a family coaching expert with personal and professional experience dealing with the immense heartache and terror addiction imposes on families. It ’s for moms and dads, daughters and sons, spouses, siblings, loved ones, and supporters alike. You get:
- Online Zoom technology, video or audio options
- 12 expert lectures by founder, Deanne Adamson
- 12 group discussions led by family coach
- A 60-page workbook to accompany the class
- Convenient, private, and community-based support
The workshop is limited to 20 members only which means that you can share your story and listen to other people ’s in a safe, intimate and compassionate space.
What will you learn?
- Why people become addicted and why it is so hard to break out of it
- How one ’s beliefs about addiction shape the pathway to recovery
- A new perspective and a new way of looking at addiction
- Solution-focused tools for working with your addicted loved one
- Clear steps for moving through the addiction and recovery process with a loved one
- Tools to help you effectively support and empower your loved one in addiction
- The difference between empowering and disempowering types of support
- Techniques to help you nourish the conditions for recovery and be the change
- How to put together a recovery strategy that works
- How to improve family communication
- How to care for yourself and stay grounded during tough times
- How to uphold and maintain boundaries while still being supportive
- Tools to help you transform the family atmosphere and your journey to family recovery
What makes Being True To You so different?
Being True to You stands out from all other recovery programs out there. They approach addiction not as a curse but as an opportunity. An opportunity for deep reflection, growth, healing, and transformation for the whole family unit. As Being True To You emphasizes, “Family plays a key role in the recovery process. Positive changes in the family dynamic initiate positive changes for each individual. It starts with one person in the family saying “YES” to doing the work.”
Here is what some of those who said “YES” say about the program:
I found Being True To You for my daughter suffering from an addiction. But in the end, I feel it was our family ’s transformation of love and compassion that the Being True To You family encouraged and nurtured. Helping us evolve from where we had been stuck for 13 years.
– Vickie M
I joined Being True To You ’s Family Recovery Workshop and that allowed myself and other families to share their stories in a Safe Environment with no judgment… It ’s programs like Being True To You ’s that need to show to the world that this is the way of the future to help with families/loved ones and give them another Holistic alternative for addiction and recovery.
– Jenny
I joined Being True To You and it did show me the way. I invite you to join too. You can learn more about the Family Recovery Workshop here.
Disclaimer: The views in this blog and of the blog writer do not necessarily represent Being True To You LLC. The writer of this blog is an independent contractor, and Being True To You does not necessarily endorse the content written within this blog. Being True To You does not advocate, suggest, approve or disapprove of the use of psychedelic medicines such as Ibogaine. The content written in this blog is not medical advice and is for entertainment purposes only. Being True To You provides transformational recovery and integration “coaching” to individuals and families through the addiction recovery and psychospiritual healing process. Coaching is not a medical service and is not regulated by any governmental authority. It is an emerging profession not accredited by any institution or organization. Being True To You coaching is not counseling or psychotherapy and does not use professional assessments or diagnose mental illness. Being True To You coaches are independent contractors who provide recovery coaching to Being True To You assigned clients on a case-by-case basis.
