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You love them. You want them to get better. And you’d do almost anything to help.
But what if some of the things you’re doing to help your addicted loved one are actually making recovery harder?
In this episode of the Get Unhooked Podcast, Jason Coombs breaks down 10 things NOT to do when you’re trying to help someone you love recover from addiction.
This isn’t about blaming families. Most of these behaviors come from fear, exhaustion, heartbreak, and a desperate desire to keep someone you love alive. But over time, rescuing, controlling, lecturing, monitoring, shaming, and protecting someone from the consequences of their addiction can begin to damage the very relationship you need in order to have a healthy influence.
Jason shares lessons from both sides of addiction—as a person in long-term recovery and as a family member, treatment provider, and author of Unhooked.
You’ll learn why:
• Addiction cannot be treated like a moral failure
• Trying to control someone’s recovery can pull you into the drama triangle
• “Cleaning the fish” doesn’t work if you put it back into the same dirty water
• Rescuing someone from consequences can rob them of an opportunity to change
• Lecturing often creates resistance instead of motivation
• Shame rarely produces healthy, lasting recovery
• Your relationship with your loved one matters more than winning the argument
You didn’t cause their addiction. You can’t control it. And you can’t cure it.
But you can learn how to stop contributing to unhealthy patterns—and start creating the kind of relationship where recovery has room to grow.
If you love someone struggling with addiction and you’re exhausted from trying to figure out what to do next, this episode is for you.
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