By the time a person comes to an Alanon or Naranon meeting, chances are, they’ve tried to do a lot of things to get their loved one to stop using. The problem is: none of them have worked.
Things like flushing the pills down the toilet, pouring the drinks down the sink, hiding the stash until the morning, searching the house for any extra, calling in sick for them so they can sleep off their hangover, believing lies told about where they’ve been, who they’ve been with and how they will never do it again, yelling, screaming, crying, begging, pleading.
All of these are part of the repertoire of the desperate family member trying to bring some sanity back into the home. So, what can you do, what can we do when we have someone we love very much who is no longer the person we once knew?
That’s what this blog will be talking about as we travel together. A plan of action to bring the sanity back into our lives and that of our drinking or drugging loved one. As they say in the 12 step rooms, it’s a ‘simple plan for complicated people.’ Stay tuned for our next blog, when we begin our work together to answer this question.
Until then, see you ‘In the Rooms’ (www.intherooms.com). Visit me Coach Bev. Become my ‘In The Rooms’ friend where you can submit your questions for this blog and for further conversation as we move forward together.
All the Best!
Coach Bev
Beverly A. Buncher, MA,CEC
Family Recovery Coach – aka The Empowerment Coach
www.theempowermentcoach.net
www.familyrecoverycoach.org
bbuncher@theempowermentcoach.net