Publisher's Synopsis
The challenge of getting yourself or someone you love into recovery can be daunting. Family and friends are often confused about how to approach the addict and a professional intervention is not something everyone can afford. Kathy L., the 12-step recovery columnist for Bellaonline, one of the largest sites for women on the web, explains the concept of intervention-the critical waking up point when the addict accepts that addiction has taken over his life. She offers stories of real people-drug addicts, alcoholics, gambling, sex, and food addicts, and the friends and family who want to help them. Book includes: - Three types of interventions: formal, informal and divine - Advice from counselors and family members who have used interventions successfully. - More than twenty different first hand accounts-stories from addicts as well as family members who have staged interventions on their own. - What happens after an intervention or when the person decides to begin recovery - How to recognize enabling behavior - How dual and poly-addiction can affect recovery This is a book for friends, family members, mental health professionals dealing with addiction issues, and addicts and alcoholics in recovery. These stories offer a measure of faith and hope that life outside of addiction is possible.
