Supporting a
Loved One's Recovery
When Traditional Addiction Treatment Keeps Failing Your Family
You’ve followed the rules (as best you can) from the mainstream message about addiction in the family.
You’ve tried all of it.
You’re not comfortable with waiting for rock bottom.
Discover what traditional treatment leaves out!
Traditional approaches have the family reacting to addiction’s shenanigans,. Something about the traditional approach to addiction in the family just doesn’t feel right. You’re ready for a change.
You’re ready for a family recovery approach that combines strategic engagement with nutritional support that many addiction treatment centers don’t address.
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, your right!” — Henry Ford
Is Your Family Stuck in This Addiction Cycle?
They promise they’ll stop using, then you find evidence they’re still drinking or using drugs. You don’t know if this is just a phase or if their addiction is getting worse. Some days seem normal, so you wonder if you’re overreacting.
You may have tried rehab, therapy, interventions – they may have worked for a few weeks or months, then the addiction cycle starts again. Meanwhile, you’re spending all your energy managing their addiction instead of living your life.
Addiction professionals tell you to “stop enabling” but no one teaches you what actually works. You’re blamed for caring about your addicted family member the way you care about them. You are told what you’re doing wrong, but get no real guidance on what you can do to support their recovery.
You’re exhausted from the addiction chaos, and you want to know what to do that might actually make a difference.
Here's What I've Learned About Why Most Addiction Treatment Struggles with Families
Addiction isn’t just about willpower – it’s about brain chemistry.
Most addiction treatment focuses on behavior change while often overlooking the nutritional deficiencies and brain chemistry imbalances that increase cravings and relapse. Too often, treatment creates conditions that assume clients can learn recovery skills while their brain is in less than optimal condition to best learn.
Meanwhile, families get blamed about what they are doing wrong, instead of being educated about what they can do right. Even if you’ve said or done some things you regret — You did not cause their addiction! Addiction pulls you into their rules. Your love and concern for your family member keeps you focused on them.
You can shield yourself from addiction and become a stronger part of the solution when you learn an expanded perspective of addiction and recovery. You can respond strategically.
My “Start with Families First” Method for Addiction Recovery
When families recognize the solution we’ve been educated to believe is part of the problem, light bulbs go on. New possibilities emerge.
The challenge becomes how to stay in your “A-game” mindset without getting pulled back to old thinking, for example: “Families are all enablers” – this focus on the problem is the problem!
Let’s acknowledge there are positive aspects of enabling!
Living with the stress of addiction depletes nutrients in your body and imbalances your brain chemicals. Rebuilding these nutritional factors contributes to your foundational support that prevents you from being pulled back to old patterns of reacting to addiction shenanigans.
Foundational support of EH1 equips you to best learn incremental strategic family responses to addiction's behaviors. You are presented with multiple strategies for you to influence recovery without ultimatums. You learn new decision making strategies and are responsible for making your own best decisions. You are supported every step of the way, and become proficient in applying what works best in your situation.
Since families do family together in unique and different ways, you are offered strategies to best create conditions in your family that fits your goals. Create long-term family conditions that enable health, rather than enabling old patterns that reinforce active addiction. You have choices in what works best for your family. This isn't "tough love" or "enabling" their addiction - it's a third approach that focuses on supporting lasting recovery.
My Approach
Learn at your own pace to understand and address addiction before it escalates.
Our group and individual coaching supports gradual, sustainable changes.
We facilitate an environment where your loved one becomes curious about change, planting seeds for their recovery journey.
Join a supportive community of individuals who share similar experiences and gain access to valuable resources and support networks.
Jeff is passionate about decreasing the daily deaths from addiction through family engagement.
Core Principles
Gain a clear understanding of addiction and its impact on families. Coaching on all decisions necessary to navigate challenging situations with clarity, compassion, and boundaries.
Understand how the past creates the future until you change it. Learning the roots of addiction starts the process.
As you learn to overcome obstacles and setbacks, you develop resilience in your nervous system. Emerge stronger and with more confidence in your ability to set boundaries with addiction, and continue to love your loved one.
Experience personal growth and self-discovery as you explore and challenge your beliefs, thinking, boundaries, and relationships within the context of addiction.
Beyond Traditional Methods
I offer a complement/alternative to conventional approaches, providing proactive family education and engagement strategies. Our methods focus on long-term, sustainable change, involving the whole family in the recovery process and the rebuilding of trust.
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