Download Everything Changes: Help for Families of Newly Recovering Addicts AudioBook Free
A relative or good friend has finally taken those tentative first steps toward sobriety. While using relief of the life-changing course of action comes a fresh and difficult group of challenges for recovering lovers and those who love them. Members of the family and friends often find themselves unsure of how to weather such a remarkable turn, as the guidelines and routines with their relationships no more pertain. Everything Changes assuages worries and uncertainty by teaching family members of recently recovering lovers how to navigate the often-tumultuous early on months of restoration. Beverly Conyers, author of the acclaimed Addict in the Family, again shares the expectation and knowledge that she gained as a parent of the recovering addict by concentrating on the aftermath of addiction. She outlines the physical and internal changes that recovering lovers go through and will be offering useful tools to help family and friends:
- Build fresh, worthwhile relationships with the addict
- Be supportive without arranging themselves up for disappointment
- Avoid allowing destructive action
- Set and maintain boundaries
- Cope with relapse
- Offer with the practicalities of sober living
