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    Self-Care for the Family Member

    Prioritizing self-care is essential to your own well-being but also to your loved one’s sobriety and recovery.

    It is completely understandable to feel like you are hostage to your emotions when there’s addiction in the family. But it will be difficult to help your loved one (as this site teaches you to do) if your own emotions are driving your actions and reactions.

    Self-care is therefore a non-negotiable building block when using our approach to helping your loved one get into treatment or solidifying their recovery. We’ll show you how…

    She Self-Medicates for Social Anxiety and Refuses Treatment

    Social anxiety is way more than shyness. Many cases of SAD involve substances as well as depression. Self-medicating can appear to help but may also b…
    Dominique Simon-Levine April 29, 2022
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    After 20 Years of Use I Don’t Know What to Do Anymore

    Our Allies member has finally found the strength to seek help for herself, too.
    Laurie MacDougall February 1, 2022
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    He Wants Money and Cigarettes While in Treatment. What Should I Do?

    Although you have already given so much, you want to find a way to positively reinforce your son’s effort at staying in treatment. The decision…
    Dominique Simon-Levine September 27, 2021
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    Upset about a Loved One’s Addiction? 4 Steps You Can Take Now

    So you're mad or hurt or feeling hopeless? To be effective at helping your addicted family member, you must first get a handle on your negative feelin…
    Dominique Simon-Levine December 14, 2020
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    What Does Being “In Denial” Actually Mean?

    Acceptance of a painful reality is a process and takes time. If it's happening to you, be open to the truth and gentle with yourself. If it's happenin…
    Annie Highwater December 4, 2020

    Denial About Addiction – Will My Son See the Truth?

    A member wonders if her son will ever come to terms with what he's put the family through. Read Annie Highwater's inspiring response which offers stre…
    Annie Highwater April 9, 2020
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    Working on my Own Recovery

    She is facing some hard truths as she looks back on the past ten years of her husband's addiction. He is finally sober, but he has yet to acknowledge …
    Dominique Simon-Levine July 15, 2019
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    I Have no Patience Left

    The courts failed to enforce treatment for her daughter, once out of jail. Now her daughter's life is a real mess. Take a look at how Dominique Simon-…
    Dominique Simon-Levine July 10, 2019
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    Addiction in a Family is Like a Flood

    Annie Highwater shares more words of wisdom with the community. Here's a lovely reminder for family members that 1) we have work to do! and 2) recover…
    Annie Highwater June 14, 2019
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    I Want to Message Her Friends

    These parents are reeling in the wake of realizing their teenaged daughter is experimenting with all sorts of substances. It feels tempting to monitor…
    Dominique Simon-Levine June 11, 2019
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    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 expert, interactive blog, podcasts, 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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