Family is one of the most powerful forces in all human societies. It doesn’t matter where you are or what the societal structure of your context is, everything hinges on the family and its role as an example of connectedness and love.
Detox and the recovery period that follows is a tough road for addicts. But when families share that tough road with an addicted family member, the burden becomes instantly lighter. Exiting addiction is like trying to see something you don’t believe in. But with the eyes of a loving family, that unseen “something” becomes the light at the end of the tunnel.
With the involvement of the family, addicts are empowered to recover with total support. Detox and recovery at home is a safe means of exiting addiction that eliminates potentially intimidating and isolating institutional settings. With the in-home model, what’s familiar replaces what’s unfamiliar and the unknown land of recovery is no longer threatening.
Healing Together
Too often overlooked in the project of releasing the addict from the grip of addiction is the family. The impact of addiction on families is serious and widespread, with 2/3 of Americans saying they’re personally affected. Sometimes, multiple family members fall to addiction. And with the streets of our cities laying bare the human cost of addiction to substances, it’s not hard to understand that addiction’s devastation to families is catastrophic.
By engaging with the detox and recovery process, families not only support the addicted family member with their loving presence, but they also find healing in standing in the process with them. And the addict, not staring down the psychologically and physically difficult detox and withdrawal period alone, is strengthened in love. The addicted family member, held up by love, receives greatly enhanced addiction recovery support with the family intimately engaged in the process.
Empowering a New Understanding
The presence of family is about more than support in the detox and recovery period. With their family walking through the process with them, the addicted person is empowered to see addictive behavior through another lens. Addiction creates a kind of tunnel vision, in which the addict is entirely focused on the satisfaction of their cravings. Of course, this is to the exclusion of the needs and feelings of other people. With the recovering addict’s family surrounding them with unwavering love, the addict is empowered with a new understanding of what addiction has meant to their life and relationships.
The addict’s future life, liberated from addiction, is born in that moment of clearly apprehending what addiction has wrought. That clarity drives recovery forward, creating a space for freshly drawn boundaries that define emotional well-being on both sides of it. As this process continues, opportunities to reconnect with the recovering addict will arise and the addicted family member reconnects with their essential self.
Growing Accountability
Exiting addiction has much to do with understanding how it works on the human mind and why. In coming to understand that, space is made for personal accountability. Replacing self-loathing and self-recrimination with the self-love of accountability is a step toward freedom.
With the family present, the addicted person in recovery can understand how accountability acts on healing. When this important facet of the recovery process is acknowledged, healing is supported as the addict reconnects with the world of love and that light at the end of the tunnel that signals freedom.
Resurrecting to the World
Addiction damages relationships, mental and physical health, and self-esteem. In the throes of addiction, so much is lost and that includes key life skills, forgotten in the laser focus on satisfying addictive compulsions.
With the help of their family, recovering addicts are allowed to restore what’s been lost, as they rebuild their personhood. Self-awareness, lost to the obsession of addiction, is restored through interaction with the people who are most familiar of all. The ability to communicate effectively and to regulate emotions appropriately, even when things go wrong, is rediscovered in the embrace of family joining the recovering addict’s journey to wellness.
With family present, restoration and resurrection apply to relationships, as reintegration begins to take shape. Whether the recovering addict is a senior or a teen, as they rediscover their passions, the family rediscovers their formerly addicted loved one.
Get Help Now
If you’re struggling with an addiction, there’s no better time than now to reach out for support. You and your family need the guidance of a licensed professional who understands the ways of substance addiction and who views detox and recovery through a compassionate lens.
In-home detox is a safe, non-institutional method of recovery that’s being increasingly embraced by people seeking to exit addiction with the support of their families. With the guidance of a professional, people afflicted with addictions move safely toward the light at the end of the tunnel with tailored, personalized care.
Addiction professionals call on auxiliary medical support when required. The work being done is never pursued in isolation. All the support required is at hand, as your addiction professional coordinates a thorough medical response to the specific needs of the recovering addict and their family.
Don’t wait. Get help now. Call on the practiced support of an addictions expert for yourself and for your family. That light at the end of the tunnel is about to grow brighter.