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One of the things that I want to talk about is having family meetings.

What is a family meeting?

Well, you know, it seems pretty simple, but family meetings are a structured environment that happen at a specific time, a specific day, and it's planned, it's arranged, and in the meeting, it is probably a little bit more structured or formalized than just day-to-day family

communication.

Optimally, everybody in the family is there and they can participate.

You know, why a family meeting? Because when there's addiction in the family, the family has impact.

The structure, the family changes.

By structure, one of the things that I'm meaning by that is patterns of communication change

when, you know, drinking problems are getting

amped up and more chaotic or things are calming down. So the communication in the family

changes based on the drinking or using patterns.

You know, a family is pretty much reactive to those patterns.

So having structured family meetings are actually a way for the family unit to have a structure and for the family to become stronger than,

you know, these up and down whatever's happening with the drinking or it's getting better or

it's not getting better. So that's the purpose that the family kind of can touch in, renew, strengthen their

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