Do you have trouble understanding alcoholism? Have you or your family and friends been challenged by it? Read the journey of one family deeply affected by generations of alcoholism in their lives. Learn how living in reality and also by faith can be the key to stepping up to the plate in your circumstances. Find ways to accept what you can and cannot change to move forward with your own life. Consider ways to use faith to help cope with the destruction alcoholism can cause, including the challenges of divorce. Learn that in the game of life, God can be your most valuable player.

"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

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.

Family relationships change dramatically when one or more members stops drinking. Far from offering a "quick fix" to family problems, in fact, the first years of sobriety are often marked by continuing tension that fuels marital stress, acting-out kids, and difficulties at work. This book explores the process of recovery from addiction as it affects the entire family, presenting an innovative model for understanding and treating families navigating this difficult period. The authors draw upon extensive clinical and research experience to demonstrate how families can be helped to regroup after abstinence, weather periods of emotional upheaval, and find their way to establishing a more stable, yet flexible, family system.

Many in church quietly suffer watching a loved one drink too much, but are too embarrassed to attend a secular Twelve-Step meeting. Many in Twelve-Step meetings are afraid to attend church because they feel judged. Recovery for the Christian Family 2 engages with Twelve-Step recovery themes as well as biblical insights to guide everyone affected toward wholeness and wellness.The affliction of alcoholism can harm the well-being of anyone who has a meaningful relationship with an excessive drinker and those in Christian homes are no exception. In a friendly style, this book selects biblical examples and relates them to the serious topic of alcoholism. These pages offer thoughtful suggestions for all those who have an alcoholic in their life.

According to recent statistics, 1 in 4 children are affected by parental alcoholism. Most of these children have no idea how to cope with their parent's addiction. They are affected emotionally, physically, mentally and even spiritually. Our society inundates sporting events and T.V. commercials with beer and alcohol advertisements. It is easy to see how alcoholism could be a way of life for most people. We have come a long way from the days of prohibition. What once was a hot topic for ministers and women's movements has now become something rarely talked about or even taboo. Alcohol has become something of an accepted norm. Thus, we seldom hear of churches doing anything about the sale, distrubution, or consumption of beverage alcohol. Yet, its corrupting power has not left us. Thousands of people die every year from its abuse and millions of families are affected adversely every day by its abuse. The Church as a whole, over the last several decades has been largely silent on the issue. There can be many reasons for this, but it is time to be silent no longer. The Church has a responsibility to help families affected by alcohol abuse, especially the children. This book will help shed some light on the otherwise silent world of the child of the alcoholic. It will offer an understanding of what the Bible has to say about alcohol, how the church has dealt with the issue of alcohol throughout the centuries, provide actual data from interviews with children of alcoholics, and provide some practical suggestions for members of the faith based community to get involved in intervention to affected families.

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