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    Category: MODULE 7

    Your Oxygen Mask – A Central Tenet of CRAFT

    The CRAFT method points to the efficacy of shifting our focus back to our Self, even in some of the most dire or anxiety-producing situations.
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    isabel March 31, 2025
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    CRAFTing: CRAFT as a Verb

    "To CRAFT" means to slow things down, understand a situation more compassionately, and make considered choices about how to interact.
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    AlliesInRecovery March 28, 2025

    FAMILIES SPEAK: Handling Hard Feelings

    How do you deal with feelings like frustration and fear around your loved one's substance use? Our co-hosts share experiences and tools.
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    AlliesInRecovery March 12, 2025

    Partner CRAFT: Early Recovery 

    What's realistic to expect of our loved ones? What can we do as a family member to support them and to keep ourselves in check? 
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    AlliesInRecovery February 26, 2025

    What About the Fear of Death?

    If fear of your loved one’s death colors things, you have to do things differently. CRAFT tools can help you change the dynamic over time.
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    AlliesInRecovery February 14, 2025
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    Finding Our Way Back Home: Ram Dass on Breaking the Cycle of Addiction

    A beloved teacher on spiritual practice and the pain that traps us in old patterns
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    rredick February 10, 2025

    FAMILIES SPEAK: Recovery—Progress, not Perfection

    It’s easy to impose expectations, but changing yourself, your expectations and perceptions makes room for your loved one to progress.
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    AlliesInRecovery February 5, 2025

    The Holidays: Cheer, Challenges, and Strategies

    Annie Highwater’s guide to surviving and thriving this season.
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    annieunhooked December 17, 2024
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    Marijuana: Is It a Problem?

    Since it has medical uses, the answers lie in good communication, in helping the person understand for themselves whether it's a problem.
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    Dominique Simon December 13, 2024

    CRAFT Basics: What Does “Agency” Mean?

    Agency, the sense of self-control, is important to CRAFT. Foster agency in others by offering positivity, gaining more agency of your own.
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    Dominique Simon November 8, 2024
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    Allies in Recovery

    Allies in Recovery is a Membership-based program providing knowledge and skills to families who have loved ones struggling with addiction, since 2003. Using CRAFT, the only behavioral training method designed specifically for families and scientifically proven to work, you’ll learn how to communicate, behave, intervene, and guide your loved one toward recovery. Eight self-guided video modules provide the complete CRAFT skillset. We supplement the training videos with hand-tailored guidance provided through an interactive blog, podcasts, live daily groups and trainings with our experts, and curated resources – including ways to locate hard-to-find, quality, low- or no-cost treatment, and other pathways through which your loved one can find recovery. You aren’t alone – you have Allies!

     

     

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