Is your loved one’s addiction, bringing you to your knees?
Do you feel like you’re slowly going crazy trying to navigate the ups and downs of your loved one’s addiction? You can keep on keeping on, or expand your approach.
Understanding addiction in the family is not your fault is the first step. These 3 tools provide understanding of human reactions to crisis and how to maintain your best self in the face of an ongoing untenable situation. The quizzes after each video helps you to ground the information and best apply it to your situation.
You’ll learn 3 tools to keep your sanity and expand your options to find and make best decisions for your situation.
The spotlight diagram expands your awareness of general relational patterns that manifest in every family with addiction
The belief system cycle expands your awareness of general thinking patterns that manifest in every person
Visual diagrams of nervous system patterns that manifest in every person who lives in an ongoing stressful environment
If the approaches you’ve tried to best navigate addiction in your family have not produced the results you’d like, try this video course before giving up on the connection with your loved one.
Course Features
- Lectures 9
- Quizzes 9
- Language English
- Students 41
- Assessments Yes
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Intro
In this series of videos we’ll be looking at 4 different areas of challenge and 3 skills to increase protective factors that lower your family’s vulnerability to addiction.
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River Map
This video shifts stigma and shame thinking to the river metaphor by acknowledging addiction in the family is a journey that requires preparation you can learn.
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Crisis, Intervene, Concern Loop
This video describes the cultural pattern of crisis, intervene, concern looping and presents strategies that inspire thinking that gets you out of the pattern.
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Spotlight Diagram
This video shows natural behavioral coping strategies that once understood, increase empathy and expand your possibilities to change patterns.
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Spotlight Diagram Part 2
This video identifies each role is based on consecutive strategies and provides a new lens that inspires a new view of your family situation, which encourages new solutions.
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Belief System Cycle
This video deepens the understanding of roles by identifying the belief system cycle under each role, and provides tips for you to change this cycle.
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Porges Nervous System Chart
This video uses visuals from Dr. Stephen Porges’ research to explain your understanding each role in the spotlight diagram has a nervous system pattern that drives thinking and behavior.
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Summary
This video summarizes the 3 mindfulness skills presented to make your best decisions moment by moment, and increase your resiliency in dealing with the ups and downs of addiction and recovery.
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Next Steps
This video acknowledges that cognitive understanding is a first step, but ongoing practice, debriefing with likeminded others, feeling a safety net of accountability, and building trust in human connection allows the understanding to be integrated.