How to Help a Loved One Through Addiction and Recovery with Alison Jones Webb • 254

Mind Love™ • Consciousness, Spirituality, and Science for Awakening

Melissa Monte | Conscious Coach

Mindfulness, Inspirational, Personal Growth, Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Consciousness, Religion & Spirituality, Spiritual Growth, Awakening, Mental Health

4.9 • 906 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

We will learn:

How a history of trauma affects recovery.
How allies can reduce the shame and stigma that can prevent people with substance use disorder from asking for help.
How to support your loved ones with the 4 pillars of recovery.

Sometimes I wonder, what’s harder… struggling with addiction, or watching someone you love struggle and feeling totally helpless?

And maybe we can’t speed up someone’s lessons. Maybe that’s not how it works. What’s trickier is that often the things we do to try to help, actually make the problem worse.

So what do we do? How can we help a loved one both before they’re ready to help themselves, and then when they’re starting to see a better way?

That’s what we’re talking about today. Our guest is Alison Jones Webb. She’s a recovery ally, advocate, author, and seasoned public health specialist. She’s the author of Recovery Allies: How to Support Addiction Recovery and Build Recovery Friendly Communities.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mind Love, episode 254.
0:04.0	Today's episode is all about how to help a loved one through addiction and recovery.
0:09.0	For most families, what is really important is to maintain a connection and to maintain the communication to the person who is causing you so much pain, all that drug use and why are you doing that to communicate to that person that you love them and that you're there for them and then to create a boundary.
0:29.0	So that's the other piece.
0:30.0	So it's like connection, maintaining connection, and maintaining boundaries.
0:34.0	There's a couple reasons for the boundaries.
0:35.8	So one is to maintain a boundary so that, you know, when one of the things that happens in addiction
0:42.4	is people will do anything to get
0:43.8	the drugs they'll steal from their parents they'll lie okay so there's some
0:47.4	accountability but the second reason to do that is because families can get all
0:51.3	wrapped up in the use of the person who's using to their own detriment.
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