Your Journey

 

Addiction is an insidious disease that robs you of your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. You lose track of who you are and struggle to find meaning in your work and relationships.

 

In the chaos of active addition, you likely had diminished coping skills, decreased learning potential and/or performance, and exhibited shameful, rigid thinking.

 

Every cloud has a silver lining...

 

Once you are in recovery, you can reflect back and see that in active addiction, you were forced to develop survival skills. Those same skills now serve you well in rebuilding your life and career: tenacity, planning and follow-through, resourcefulness, opportunism, social adeptness, adaptability, and creativity.

 

LIFELINE THERAPY will provide the self-help you need to augment and strengthen your continuing recovery activities.

 

 

LIFELINE THERAPY Addiction Recovery Services

 

Personality Assessment 

 

Discover your character defects in order to strengthen recovery and prevent relapse.

 

Learn to: Identify specific personality traits that help you maintain your sobriety, manage stress, and deal with difficult relationships.

 

 

Strengths Assessment

 

Discover and relay accomplishment stories, while prioritizing favorite strengths (especially those you're good at and really like).

 

Identify satisfying ways to earn a living, make educational choices and re-launch/build your career.

 

Learn to: Find good-fit careers that excite you and inspire motivation and long-term commitment.

 

 

Narrative Creation

 

Honor the resourceful ways you navigate your own path to recovery.

 

Review significant events on your lifeline to create a more self-affirming life story.

 

Learn to: 

• Find ways to reconstruct identity and improve your self-image.

• Integrate your pre-sobriety and sober life stories

 

 

Relationship Development

 

Increase knowledge of your own and others' personality types.

 

Learn to:

• Find your tribe and reconnect personally and professionally.

• Handle the ups and downs of relating to those with whom you live and work, especially those relationships with stressful dynamics.

 

 

 

 

Parents in Recovery from Co-Dependency

 

LIFELINE THERAPY helps parents of addicts better understand themselves so that they can effectively address issues of co-dependency, get on the same page with a spouse or loved ones, and learn how to lovingly detach from their child.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Journey

 

If you are a parent of an addicted child, you may battle the need to protect him or her and to control the situation. As a result, you probably face feelings of helplessness that can lead to issues of co-dependency, guilt, and loss.

 

You most likely understand the need for your child to recover from addiction. What is often less well understood is the need for you to change your enabling behaviors that have developed as a coping mechanism for dealing with your child’s disease.

 

 

Getting Started...

 

 

I developed LIFELINE THERAPY to help parents shift their attention to their own recovery of mental and physical well-being.  I am the parent of an addicted child, now in longer term recovery, and have walked your path. 

 

In addition to attending parent/family support meetings and getting help from mental health practitioners trained in addiction, the most important thing you can do is to learn to understand yourself, no matter what is happening on the outside in your life.

 

Unfortunately, parents can work at cross-purposes during the chaos that addiction inflicts.  For example, one spouse gets mad; the other gets sad (head vs. heart); one spouse focuses on an addict child’s previous dreams/goals (e.g. career advancement) and the other focuses on new goals (e.g. health and long-term treatment).

 

 

LIFELINE THERAPY  Parent Recovery Services

 

Personality Assessment

 

Understand all aspects of your personality and character defects.

 

Learn to:

• Identify the specific personality traits that help you to understand, confront, and manage your typical enabling behaviors

 

• Evaluate similarities and differences from your spouse so you can stop blamlng/judging and start collaborating with each other.

 

 

Strengths Assessment

 

Write and share accomplishment stories taken from an Addiction Impact Timeline.

 

Learn to:

• Identify unique triggers that send each of you into a stress response and how to return to equilibrium.

 

• Discover overused strengths which lead to enabling under stress and new skills learned from battling the challenges of addiction. 

 

 

 

 

To review our Actionable Insights Progam which provides the framework to guide self-discovery and development, please click here.

 

To learn more about Womens' Story Circles, please click here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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