How Do You Get Past Accumulated Trauma?
How do you get past accumulated trauma with your loved one? It's about breaking the cycles, stepping back, and letting new things happen.
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Reflective Listening, Intentional Dialogue, and Improving Communication: Episode 69
How does "reflective listening" work? What are its benefits? Why does Kayla say she'd use it if someone were pointing a gun at her?
What’s Burnout, and How Do You Handle It?
Burnout: you've got nothing left but fatigue and anxiety. Take a real break to refill your tank in whatever way works best for you.
What Is Chronic Disappointment, and How Do You Avoid It?
Expectations about others set you up for disappointment. Focus on your values, then act accordingly. The outcome can be beautiful.
Did My Comment Make Him Drink?
Did a positive comment cause use? You can’t know what your loved one’s feeling. Focus on you; don’t link your happiness to their status.
How Do You Acknowledge Use Without Accusation?
It was developed to help regulate blood sugar in diabetics and pre-diabetics. It’s widely (though unofficially) used for weight loss. Now semaglutid…
CRAFT, Al-Anon, and Intervention: What’s the Difference?
CRAFT offers tools to gain awareness of your own reactivity, notice what works for your loved one, and make choices to create real change.
How Do You Move from Crisis Management to Change Over Time?
You're in it for your loved one. But CRAFT wants you to change, to learn new tools. AIR offers vital support for change over time.
Let’s Talk About Treatment
The end goal of CRAFT is treatment, but what does that mean, and what does it look like? In addition to more-expected forms, treatment is anything tha…
Allies in Recovery: A Community
How AIR began, and how it became a true community of family members helping others and refining CRAFT tools through experience.