Ep.542: When You Love Someone in Recovery with Caroline Beidler, MSW

Addiction has ripple effects. When you love someone who is in active recovery you often don't know if you are saying or doing the right thing to help. Caroline Beidler gives us words of hope: you can't go wrong with compassion. As a person who is walking out her own recovery from substances and a professional who creates resources for others in recovery, Caroline is able to broach this topic from multiple angles. 

We talk through boundaries, enabling, and relapse. All topics that impact not just the person in recovery, but those caring for him or her. We also cover neuroscience of addiction and genetic factors that may be at play because family members often struggle with the "why" behind the addiction. And finally how do we have difficult conversations? Especially in the early stages of recovery when hurts on both sides may still feel quite raw? Caroline walks us through all of that.

If you love someone who is in active addiction or in recovery - in any form - this episode will help you feel less alone. It will also offer some practical approaches to potentially awkward conversations so that we can love well. And you can never go wrong with compassion.

FIND MORE ABOUT CAROLINE BEIDLER

Caroline Beidler- Website and Instagram

Caroline Beidler Book- When You Love Someone in Recovery

Caroline Beidler's - Recovery Rhythm Reset

A FEW THINGS MENTIONED

Recovery Resources- Recovery.com

Bible Verse- Luke 15:20

QUESTIONS TO HELP YOU RISE

1. How can you hold hope for someone in your life?
2. What is your support system as you support someone in recovery?
3. Do you need to have some non-weird conversation about how to do life together?
4. How can you run with compassion towards someone who is already in recovery or moving in that direction?

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