Family Recovery Lifeline
Coaching, educating and supporting families with a loved one struggling with an addiction and/or a mental health condition
There are many helpful resources to get you started on the road to family recovery. Here are some resources that I have found helpful and suggest to my clients:
Books
Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading and Threatening by Robert J. Meyers, Ph.D. and Brenda L. Wolfe, PhD.
Changing to Thrive, by James O. Prochaska, PhD. and Janice M. Prochaska, PhD.
Love First: A Family's Guide to Intervention, by Jeff Jay and Debra Jay
Classes and Family Support Groups
- The National Alliance on Mental Illness offers a free Family-to-Family class and support groups for families who have a loved one with a mental health condition. You can look up your local chapter on the national Nami website: www.nami.org
- CRAFT Family Support Groups - You can learn about all the Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) approach on this website: https://helpingfamilieshelp.com/about-craft and they offer free online CRAFT Family Support Groups.
- Al-Anon Family Groups https://al-anon.org/
- Families Anonymous https://www.familiesanonymous.org/about-fa/