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Families Navigating Addiction & Recovery


Apr 24, 2019

“We need to have a space for families to go where they can connect because … the disease lives where there's disconnection.” –Denise Klein

 

There’s a great book coming to town! It’s called, The Truth About Rehab by Denise Klein, the Co-Owner and CEO of Milestones Ranch Malibu. Denise has been a social worker for nearly 30 years. And what can she say: ““I love what I do.”  Allow her to tell you more about her book and how it can help everyone, family members and professionals alike. The truth is, a rehab should be more than just a ‘rehab’. As quoted above, it is “a space for families to go where they can connect.” This new book, written in collaboration with a couple of professionals, features important aspects in rehab; some of which are discussed in this episode.

 

Countless advertisements entice people with promising guarantees. Doctors, although being in the same field, have differing opinions and interpretations. That’s why families get confused in terms of choosing the right interventionist and the proper intervention for their loved one. And once they choose one, each member has to know what really is the family’s role  in the family transformation. Are they observers? supporters? or are they much more than that? The thing is, healing takes on as a family and not individually. We don’t just leave our family members at the treatment center’s door, come back in a couple of months and become normal again. So how do we harness the family’s strength and resiliency and create this “space” for connections and genuine healing? Finally, we know that after the treatment process, stressors and the possibility of relapse will surround families every second of everyday. So how do we help ourselves and our family member look at personal boundaries and deal with grey areas? Well, we surely do not want to go down a rabbit hole on this one so listen in as we delve harder into these topics. The treatment may have ended but the healing continues. It’s a way of life at least from this point on.

 

Get the show notes, transcription and resources mentioned at

http://thefamilyrecoverysolution.com/

 

Highlights:

03:47 Thirty years and Still In Love

07:00 The Truth About Rehab

11:08 The Family in Transformation

20:57 Laughing Again

26:52 Dealing with Gray Areas