Holiday Time Again – How To Cope and Thrive – part 4 of 4: Getting Support

Published on November 28, 2010 by in 12 Steps Program, Addiction, Al Anon, Alateen, children of addicts, dads of addicts, Faith, Family Recovery Coaching, Florida Nar-Anon, Focus on You, forgiveness, Illinois Nar-Anon, in the rooms, Lois Wilson, moms of addicts, Nar-Anon, Narcotics, parents of addicts, parents of adult children, parts work, Recovery, spouses of addicts, trudging

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Congratulations! You made it through Thanksgiving!

Hopefully you had a wonderful time with family and friends. If an acting out addict or other dysfunctional loved one made things difficult, you still survived and hopefully everyone else did too!

So, where do you go from here?

If you have been following this blog this year and particularly this series for the past two weeks, you have most likely begun to pay more attention to your own self care, being a loving person and setting healthy boundaries. Or at least you have begun to think about doing so.

If you are finding the long haul of maintaining these new habits of mind challenging, foundations four will make your life so much easier!

This foundation, getting support, is all about adding people, places and things to your life that will help you continue to take better care of yourself, become more loving and set better boundaries, all with less stress and discomfort.

The type of support you may need is entirely individual, yet, there are some tried and true methods of getting help when you are struggling with the addiction of a loves one. These include: Alanon, Nar-anon, Gamanon, S-anon, recovery coaching, the Four Foundations of Family Recovery courses, and therapy. Each of these has its up and down sides and each has the potential to increase the peace within you immeasurably.

For a free report on the many types of support for family members, along with contact information, send me an email at recoverycoachbev@theempowermentcoach.net . When you do so, I’ll also send you my free e-book How Can I Get Them Sober? A Guide for Families and Friends of Alcoholics and Addicts and add you to my newsletter so these blog posts will come directly to your email!

All the best,

Coach Bev
Beverly A. Buncher, MA, CEC, LTPC
Family Recovery Coach
www.theempowermentcoach.net/4-foundations-of-recovery.html
786 859 4050

  • http://www.networkanthony.com Anthony

    Your blog was very interesting to read as I am also active in 12 step recovery. I have recently developed a free evening review service that allows people in recovery to not only do their evening review online but also to receive reminders to do their review in the evening and of what their corrective measures were in the morning via sms or e-mail message. Please check out MyNightlyReview.com and feel free to e-mail me with any comments you might have.

    • http://www.theempowermentcoach.net beverlybuncher

      Hi Anthony.
      Thanks for sharing. what kind of privacy protection do you offer to participants?
      Thanks.
      Coach Bev