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You've tried everything to help someone you love get sober. So why isn't anything working?
You've paid their bills. You've covered for their mistakes. You've had the same conversations a hundred times. You've threatened consequences, made promises, and spent countless sleepless nights wondering what else you could possibly do.
But here's the painful truth:
Sometimes the things we do out of love are the very things keeping addiction comfortable.
In this powerful episode of Get Unhooked, Jason Coombs shares a deeply personal story about the day his parents learned a lesson that would change their family's life forever.
While attending family therapy during Jason's treatment, his parents were asked to imagine their son standing in a boat, dropping boulders into a lake. Each boulder represented another destructive choice. And every ripple eventually became a massive wave crashing over the two people who loved him most.
Then the therapist told them something profound:
"You can't stop Jason from throwing the boulders. But you can get off the beach."
That message became a turning point.
Drawing from his personal recovery journey, decades of experience helping families affected by addiction, and the evidence-based CRAFT approach, Jason shares seven practical moves families can make when their loved one is stuck in the pre-contemplation stage—the stage where they don't believe they have a problem and have no intention of changing.
You'll learn why rescuing someone from consequences can delay their motivation to recover, how to establish boundaries without guilt, and how to stop letting another person's addiction dictate your emotional and financial well-being.
Most importantly, you'll discover that you don't have to abandon someone you love to stop participating in their addiction.
Because getting unhooked isn't about giving up on your loved one.
It's about learning how to contribute to their recovery instead of their addiction.
And reclaiming your own life in the process.
If you're exhausted from trying to save someone who doesn't want to be saved, this episode is for you.
Get Unhooked is hosted by Jason Coombs, founder of Brick House Recovery and author of Unhooked: How to Help an Addicted Loved One Recover.
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