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Developing an Intervention Plan that Will Really Work
Developing an intervention plan that will really work can be a challenge. How do you know that your loved one is ready to be convinced to attend rehab? What if he has another plan and you’re about to...
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Intervention: Don’t try it alone
An intervention can be a pretty tempting proposition when your loved one is battling addiction and you can see him getting worse and worse. You probably think that you have nothing left to lose and the...
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Planning a Successful Teen Intervention Step I
Planning a successful teen intervention takes a great deal of care. In general it is best to enlist the aid of an addiction treatment professional, due to highly reactive and often defiant nature of...
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A Different Kind of Intervention: Catering it to your Loved One’s personality
Is it possible to do a different kind of intervention to help encourage your loved one to get clean and sober? If you’ve been thinking about doing an intervention for a while, you might have been...
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Intervention Letter Writing Tips II
Intervention letter writing can be a heart wrenching exercise. It’s an attempt to defeat the denial of a loved one who is inside active addiction. Interventions, due to their nature, cannot be...
View ArticleWhy Denial Is Tough To Beat
Denial is tough to beat, break down, or breath through. If you’re the loved one of an addict, you may stand open mouthed at the sheer ability of a person in a horrible situation to deny that there’s...
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Intervention Fail: Just Because Your Loved One Doesn’t Seek Treatment Doesn’t...
Often, when you think of an intervention fail, it’s enough to make you feel like you’ve not made any progress with your addicted loved one, but that’s not always the case. In fact, just because your...
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Setting Your Bottom Line: What Would You Be Willing to Give Up to Help Your...
Setting your bottom line when it comes time for your loved one’s intervention can be really tough. Often, we feel that we simply aren’t able to give up connection and time with our addicted loved one –...
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The Perfect Time for an Intervention: How to Spot it
When is the perfect time for an intervention? How can you see it when you’re there, and is it possible to get one together with short notice? Often, interventions fail. Addicted loved ones seem to...
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What are Some Approaches to Intervention?
If there is an addict in your life and you are concerned about what they are doing with their life, to themselves and to others then an intervention just very well may be the right option. Now, there...
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Failures In Communication
Failures in communication, as well as poor communication skills, result in addicts fleeing from the people who are often most capable of helping them. Although the onus for getting clean lies on the...
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Are You at Risk for Behavioral Addiction?
In a word, yes, behavioral addiction is always an unfortunate risk for substance addicts. It can be a form of cross addiction. Behavioral addiction (sex, shopping, spending—even healthy behaviors such...
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Planning an Intervention? Here’s what you need to Know
When you’re planning an intervention, you might be thinking that all you have to do is get a bunch of your family members together to tell your loved one battling addiction that he or she needs to seek...
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Family Dynamics in Addiction II
Family dynamics in addiction can warp relationships and cause people to adopt roles they were never intended to step into. A spouse can end up “parenting” their addicted partner. Children can become...
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Suicide in Addiction
Suicide in addiction is far from a pleasant topic. Even given that addiction itself can be hard to talk about, adding suicide to the mix makes it doubly tough. However, suicide is a very real risk of...
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How to Use Holism in Interventions
Holism in interventions can be tremendously powerful; it can be an amazingly effective tool to open up communications with a person in active addiction who seems lost. Holism is both a philosophy and...
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Confront Addiction Effectively
To confront addiction effectively, we have to first address denial. When you start planning an intervention for a loved one or family member that’s sinking deep into addiction, there’s no substitute...
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When Intervention Fails
It happens. Intervention fails. If intervention worked 100% every time, addiction wouldn’t be the scourge it is. When intervention fails, it can feel like all hope is lost. It’s not, but it’s time to...
View ArticleIntervention – Is It Time to Hold Yours?
Intervention – Is It Time to Hold Yours? For some, an intervention for their addicted loved one is the best thing they could have ever done. It shows their addicted friend or family member how much...
View ArticleForced to Change and the Resentment it causes
Forced to Change and the Resentment it causes We often make our loved ones feel as if they are forced to change and overcome their addictions. We take them through an intervention and tell them that...
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