What if your stress and heartache are because a loved one is at risk ?
There is nothing worse than struggling with 24/7 anxiety while your loved one walks the razor’s edge.
When you are desperate to do something about a loved one’s addictive behaviours, a professional intervention can be the best possible course of action, for so many reasons.
It can break through thick walls of denial and act as a loud wake up call for someone who is at risk of losing everything and everybody that matters to them, even their lives.
But the tv version of Intervention and popular understanding of what that is, is a Cinderella story. It sells the notion that if the troubled person agrees to go to “rehab” everybody will live happily ever after. The shows end with a departure to the treatment centre on the assumption that the loved one will return fixed.
Studies suggest that only three percent of people who go to a residential treatment centre as a stand-alone strategy for recovery, succeed for any length of time in changing their problematic behaviour. This makes is abundantly clear that intervention and residential treatment on their own are no magic bullet. “Rehab” can become a painful revolving door if it is your “one trick pony” for dealing with addiction.
Residential treatment centres do phenomenal work in detoxifying, stabilizing and educating people about addiction. You leave a treatment centre substance free with a deeper understanding of how to cope with life unmedicated, undistracted and with presence. But let us be clear, this is step one to a lifelong recovery.
This understanding is what makes Circle of Care Recovery an exponentially more effective approach. We understand that people leave treatment in a state of post-acute withdrawal. The cravings and complete absorption in the process of feeding the hungry ghost inside have subsided, yes. But the experiences that led to the problem have not been processed, and the same life that supported the addiction is waiting for them back at home.
Addiction is a family problem. A change in one family member means adaptive change for everyone and the old roles played by everyone need to shift dramatically.
This is why Circle of Care Recovery offers and honours intervention but views it as the gateway to the recovery journey. We also treat the trauma and attachment issues that gave birth to the addiction. We treat the damaged family and relationships and help people relate to each other differently.
We help with the re-invention of self and to set the goals that will manifest your best life. We are here when the roller coaster of recovery plummets and rises.
People don’t get into the kind of trouble that requires intervention in 28 days, and they don’t overcome it in that time either. It is a commitment, a process that succeeds best with wrap around support and state of the art help. The first time somebody accepts help is the critical time.