When addiction hits a family, it's damage can be severe. Just as a hurricane-force storm devastates a physical home, the storm of addiction can bring destruction to everyone involved. Christian Families in Recovery will help you take a deeper look at the nature of addiction and recovery from a Christ-centered perspective. By learning the tools of intervention, you can love the addict, but establish an enviornment that will not support the addiction. If the addict is entering recovery, you can develop a step-by-by family recovery plan that will affirm and respect the needs of all members. Someone else's addiction doesn't have to control you. Instead, you can learn to live in the empowerment of God's method of redemption.

Everybody is trying to help the addict or alcoholic get sober but very few people really know how to help the family through the experience. This book has the real world insight of a husband and wife team who are survivors of alcoholism who have worked with thousands of people over the last twenty years. You will learn about interventions and how they work and when to use them...not from a TV show full of drama, but from people that want to guide your family toward success. You will learn how to live with alcoholism while not losing your family to it. You will find a way of peace during the storm. You will gain confidence that God has a plan for your family that may not be clear to you quite yet.

"Chaplain Farris and Ruth Robertson bring life changing ideas to the families of alcoholics and addicts. Their refreshing approach to the age old problem of alcoholism brings the latest information and techniques to the average family while handling each sensitive topic with a profoundly hard-hitting yet gentle, sometimes humorous, approach. While learning how to interact with an active or recovering addict or alcoholic, the family is taught to survive the experience and create an environment that will support the recovery process. The Robertsons have pulled together the information you need, while providing the family life tools and communication tips you will use to keep the family safe and sane. With a full index, entertaining graphics, and easy to read style designed for ages 14 and up, you will find yourself able to test and try new methods that will help the family thrive amid dysfunction. While the entire world seems to focus on helping the alcoholic-addict, the family is largely ignored or treated as an afterthought. Chaplain Farris [and Ruth] Robertson ...know that hurting families need straightforward explanations and examples in order to prosper and assist their still suffering loved ones. Recovery for the Christian Family introduces practical and careful steps to restore family harmony. The do's and don'ts of living with alcoholism, explanations of interventions, treatment, and the role of the Church, all present alternatives for including the alcoholic in family recovery. God wants to save families and here is a book that teaches the family how to survive when everything seems to be falling apart."--amazon.com

Winner of a 2018 Catholic Press Association Award: Sacraments. (Second Place). In the first book to directly integrate the Twelve Steps with the practice of Catholicism, Scott Weeman, founder and director of Catholic in Recovery, pairs his personal story with compassionate straight talk to show Catholics how to bridge the commonly felt gap between the Higher Power of twelve-step programs and the merciful God that he rediscovered in the heart of the sacraments. Weeman entered sobriety from alcohol and drugs on October 10, 2011, and he's made it his full-time ministry to help others who struggle with various types of addiction to find spiritual wholeness through Catholic in Recovery, an organization he founded and directs. In The Twelve Steps and the Sacraments, Weeman candidly tackles the struggle he and other addicts have with getting to know intimately the unnamed Higher Power of recovery. He shares stories of his compulsion to find a personal relationship with God and how his tentative steps back to the Catholic Church opened new doors of healing and brought him surprising joy as he came to know Christ in the sacraments. Catholics in recovery and those moving toward it, as well as the people who love them will recognize Weeman's story and his spiritual struggle to personally encounter God. He tells us how: Baptism helps you admit powerlessness over an unmanageable problem, face your desperate need for God, and choose to believe in and submit to God’s mercy. Reconciliation affirms and strengthens the hard work of examining your life, admitting wrongs, and making amends. The Eucharist provides ongoing sustenance and draws you to the healing power of Christ. The graces of Confirmation strengthen each person to keep moving forward and to share the good news of recovery and new life in Christ. Weeman's words are boldly challenging and brimming with compassion and through them you will discover inspiration, hope, sage advice, and refreshingly practical help.

Springfield, Missouri � Chaplain Farris and Ruth Robertson bring life changing ideas to the families of alcoholics and addicts in their new book, Recovery for the Christian Family: Surviving Alcoholism, a 166 page wisdom-filled paperback. Their refreshing approach to the age old problem of alcoholism brings the latest information and techniques to the average family while handling each sensitive topic with a profoundly hard-hitting yet gentle, sometimes humorous, approach. While learning how to interact with an active or recovering addict or alcoholic, the family is taught to survive the experience and create an environment that will support the recovery process. The Robertsons have pulled together the information you need, while providing the family life tools and communication tips you will use to keep the family safe and sane. With a full index, entertaining graphics, and easy to read style designed for ages 14 and up, you will find yourself able to test and try new methods that will help the family thrive amid dysfunction. �While the entire world seems to focus on helping the alcoholic-addict, the family is largely ignored or treated as an afterthought.� Chaplain Farris Robertson knows that hurting families need straightforward explanations and examples in order to prosper and assist their still suffering loved ones. Recovery for the Christian Family introduces practical and careful steps to restore family harmony. The do�s and don�ts of living with alcoholism, explanations of interventions, treatment, and the role of the Church, all present alternatives for including the alcoholic in family recovery. God wants to save families and here is a book that teaches the family how to survive when everything seems to be falling apart.

This second revised version offers a group leader's manual updated material. The Christian Codependence Recovery Workbook: From Surviving to Significance takes you through a truth-finding journey to reveal your system of love, life and relationships. It practically addresses the manifest behaviors, emotions and needs of the codependent, while simultaneously introducing the precious truths of God's love. This workbook doesn't just diagnose the problem, but offers the healing principles of the Lord Jesus Christ in a fresh and profound way. When applied, you will have the opportunity to walk in freedom and grace, rather than bondage and control. Above all, this journey allows you to find freedom, purpose and identity in Christ. This book is written for anyone who wants to grow closer to the Lord, and to embrace healthy and whole relationships.

Often it is difficult for parents to recognize when their child is abusing alcohol, using illegal drugs, or in trouble with other substances that are hazardous to their health, safety, and wellbeing. Clearing the Haze is a guide designed to help parents determine whether their child may have a substance problem and, if so, how to begin to address it. The book includes the voices and insight of experts in substance abuse counseling, young people in recovery, and parents who have lived the nightmare of adolescent addiction. The book moves readers through an overview of adolescent brain development, the warning signs of drug use and addiction, treatment options, what families should expect of therapy, the basics of productive communication, and the difficulties of dealing lovingly with addicted teens. The authors encourage families entering the 12th step of “giving back” to consider advocacy for smarter public policies surrounding drug access and addiction treatment. They also provide a list of resources parents may find useful. A necessary resource for every community, this book will help parents, teachers, friends, and others help kids who need help.