The family members journey living with someone who has a substance use disorder

In this episode we explore the individual and family members experience with Detox Programs for SUD treatment. This is the first step toward recovery and the family members will benefit from knowing the process and what roles they can take.

Resilience is what will allow you to get through the bad times, and enjoy more fully the good times. Resilience is not just something that comes with life, you have to develop it on purpose, be aware of what your level is.

Your employment will determine your lifestyle, your housing, your meals, your stress level, your friends, your security. The list goes on and one. Create a career, meet with a career counselor and design a plan. Then work your plan as your first job.

Education is both a sword and a shield as you move forward. It will get you into something and get you out of things too. Make education a daily activity.

We might thing that relationships just happen. They don't and it is very likely you will need to create new relations because the past people you knew are not healthy for you to be around going forward. Manage who you have relationships with and how you contribute to the relationship. Also, support is something that no one has a responsibility to give you. You will need to go out and find it, and ask for support. Then you will need to maintain their supporting you.

Your health is important. From this all thing become possible which is why health and strong habits in managing your health have a high priority in every day you wake up. Manage what you are doing that maximizes your health. Hold yourself accountable for doing some that is good for your health, everyday.

Some people dream big, now is s time to thing realistic, manage your life skillsso they align with what is attainable and will move you forward. In the beginning, big can some later.

Managing your money because there is likely not much of it will allow you get the most for every dollar. Do not lend others for your limited resources, you can do that later when you have more. Try to seek work that builds your ability to get into new positions that pay better. Have a goal in how you will manage what you have and how you will gain more.

Another critical skill is to gather the resources you will need to successfully move forwrad. This can be a combination of good planning, knowing what you will need and how you will use it, and where to find these programs and resouces.

The Beliefs we hold to be true to ourselves need to be in the front part of our mind in order to recall them when making decisions and choosing our behavior or response. This is especially true in the months to follow re-entry.

Two factors are address, the first is the journey of addiction and its different phases. This is important to learn so we know what to expect is likely to happen next. The second is how are we involved if we unknowingly enable this progression. Therefore, we look into the ten types of enabling by family members.

Re-Entry is a challenge, coordination, planning, and self awareness are just some of the keys to surviving the first year back into a new life. Go to our website to download the Re-Entry workbook PDF and follow along with each of the ten chapter playing this podcast.

Substance use disorders is a community disease, it goes everywhere and everyone will be impacted in some way. Because there are key stakeholders in our community we need to identify who they are, empower them with knowledge and call them out to participate in a proactive position.

Both the family and the individual have a great deal to learn and a lot of changes to make in order to find your new normal. It starts with looking at where there was stress and trauma and give it a label and name, identify it exists.

The Abacus is a disease management model for SUD, We need to look into the model and what are its parts that make up a structure. It is structure in our current system for deliver that we have a incorrect application

The Abacus is a disease management model for substance use disorders and in this Part 1 we look at the current delivery system and how it not what will serve us best. How do we restructure the health care system to better meet the needs of the chronic disease as we management it through a life long journey.

There have been many studies completed on the topic of how to support family members when the family is dealing with substance use disorder. These support elements are clear to see and do not necessarily need to change. There is an advantage to know who is doing what so we can expect how and when they are needed.

We know your journey and we know how the addiction of your loved one will likely impact your family.

We know the steps that occur in developing an addiction. We also know how this addiction inside the family system will impact the family members. This is important for the family to understand and prepare for each issue that may present and how to respond.

I would be great if you could say to the individual person, do this and you will be better. They are likely not going to change. You could threaten them and this too will likely not create a lasting change. So let's learn the 5 stages of change which are empirically proven need to take place for change to effectively occur. Then using motivational interviewing in order to enact change.

This is a time where we are greatly challenged mentally, physically and spiritually. All three areas and more need our attention, all three are interconnected. In the family there is a great benefit for those individual members who have a faith practice to draw on their understanding of their beliefs, values and prayer. We can only suggest that in what you believe, now is the time to pause, reflect and ask for God to guide you. Should you choose we can provide to your church or parish a turn key ministry model that can be molded to your needs. just call us 440.385.7605

The family is a system and you need to know how the system works. Each family member is an individual and has a functionality to their own, the way they act and how the can contribute to the family dynamic. We need to know our functionality when it comes to dealing within the family system and how prepared are we, how are we doing matters to the way we can contribute. The degree of our contribution to the family dynamic is our potential. And there are three types of obstacles that interfere with our ability to contribute, we need to be aware of them.

The family needs a place to start towards recover. They need to have an addiction screening completed, brief intervention, referral and then treatment.