Education
We believe education is an important key to achieving a joyful life of sobriety. Below, we’ve compiled some useful tools for families and individuals who want to begin taking steps toward recovery.
What is Enabling?
Doing something for someone that they can do for themselves
Tips to Avoid Enabling the Chemically Dependent Person:
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Signs of surrender
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“Acceptance appears to be a state of mind in which the individual accepts rather than rejects or resists: he is able to take things in, to go along with, to cooperate, to be receptive.”
- Harry M. Tiebout, M.D.
Improving Communications
Dysfunctional communication styles
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Functional Communications
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External Resources:
Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous® is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. Narcotics Anonymous Narcotics Anonymous is an international, community-based association of recovering drug addicts with more than 43,900 weekly meetings in over 127 countries worldwide. Narcotics Anonymous sprang from the Alcoholics Anonymous Program of the late 1940s, with meetings first emerging in the Los Angeles area of California, USA, in the early Fifties. The NA program started as a small US movement that has grown into one of the world’s oldest and largest organizations of its type. |
Al-Anon
For over 50 years, Al-Anon (which includes Alateen for younger members) has been offering hope and help to families and friends of alcoholics. It is estimated that each alcoholic affects the lives of at least four other people… alcoholism is truly a family disease. No matter what relationship you have with an alcoholic, whether they are still drinking or not, all who have been affected by someone else’s drinking can find solutions that lead to serenity in the Al-Anon/Alateen fellowship. Addiction Intervention A national behavioral health consulting, intervention and recovery management company that provides solutions to families and organizations that are struggling as a result of addictions, eating disorders, and mental illness in their homes and offices. We specialize in alcohol intervention, drug addiction intervention, sex addiction intervention, gambling intervention, eating disorder intervention and other compulsive self destructive behavior interventions as well as mental health intervention and crisis management. AIR puts the right resources in motion to address the crisis and put the family or organization and the identified individual on a solid course of recovery. Addiction Intervention Resources moves your family out of crisis and helps to manage the complete recovery process. |