Resources to Support Your Family’s Healing
When a loved one is struggling with addiction, an eating disorder, or untreated mental health challenges, it can feel like there’s no clear map. You might be searching for answers, stability, or simply someone who understands what this feels like.
I created this page as a calm starting place, a collection of resources I trust and share often with the families I work with. Each link and recommendation is here because I’ve seen it make a difference. My hope is that you’ll find clarity, direction, and a little peace in knowing you’re not alone.
Learn
Education is one of the most powerful tools families have. Understanding addiction and recovery helps shift the focus from fear and confusion toward awareness and change.
Living Alongside Recovery: A Skills Building Family Support Group
Every Tuesday at 7 p.m. EST, I host a free virtual skills building family support group for family members navigating the impact of addiction, mental health challenges, and the strain these struggles can place on the family system.
Held via Zoom and open to families nationwide, the group offers a supportive, practical space to connect, learn, and feel less alone in what you are experiencing.
Each week, the group moves through a 12-week family support curriculum built around topics related to family recovery, communication, boundaries, emotional wellness, and healing within the family system. The material continues to evolve based on the needs and experiences of the families participating. Conversations focus on real-life challenges families face, including boundaries, communication, enabling patterns, emotional burnout, rebuilding trust, and learning how to support a loved one without losing yourself in the process.
The format is open, welcoming, and skills-based. Whether you choose to share or simply listen, the goal is for each person to leave with greater understanding, support, and practical tools they can begin using in everyday life.
→ Learn more and join a session
The Interventions With Love Blog
If you’re not sure where to begin, start with a few of my most-read pieces:
The Importance of Family Education in Addiction Recovery: How informed, compassionate involvement can change the course of recovery.
When Support Feels Like Control: How families can stay connected without sliding into micromanagement or enabling.
The Role of Connection in Recovery:Discover how building strong, healthy support systems fosters long-term healing.
Supporting a Loved One in Recovery: Do’s and Don’ts for Families:Practical, real-world advice for helping your loved one, without losing yourself in the process.
Letting Consequences Do Their Job: Why natural consequences often teach more than control ever can.
You can find more articles on topics like intervention planning, treatment readiness, and family recovery on the Interventions With Love Blog.
Newsletter: Insights for Families and Professionals
Each month, I share real-world insights, stories from the field, and practical tools for families and clinicians.
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Read
Books can be steady companions in uncertain times. These are titles I return to often, each offering language, perspective, and hope for families rebuilding trust and connection. They’ve also helped many of the families I’ve worked with better understand addiction and begin to heal.
Everything Changes: Help for Families of Newly Recovering Addicts, by Beverly Conyers
No More Letting Go: The Spirituality of Taking Action Against Alcoholism and Drug Addiction, by Debra Jay
It Takes a Family: Creating Lasting Sobriety, Togetherness, and Happiness, by Debra Jay
Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy by David Sheff
Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change, by Jeffrey Foote, Carrie Wilkens & Nicole Kosanke
Each of these offers practical guidance, moving stories, and a message of hope.
Connect
Recovery doesn’t happen in isolation. Finding community helps restore perspective and reminds families they aren’t alone in this process.
These national and global organizations offer education, support, and connection for families and loved ones:
General Family Support
NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) - Free support groups, education, and advocacy for individuals and families affected by mental illness. nami.org
Families Anonymous - A 12-step group for families of those struggling with substance use or behavioral challenges. familiesanonymous.org
Parents of Addicted Loved Ones (PAL) - Peer-led meetings focused on education, healthy boundaries, and shared experience. palgroup.org
Addiction-Focused Support
Al-Anon - For those affected by someone else’s drinking. Offers confidential meetings and supportive literature. al-anon.org
Nar-Anon - Support for families and friends of those with substance use disorder. nar-anon.org
SMART Recovery Family & Friends - Evidence-based tools rooted in CBT to support a loved one’s recovery without enabling. smartrecovery.org
Eating Disorder-Focused Support
FEAST (Families Empowered and Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders) — Global resource for parents and caregivers grounded in family-based treatment and evidence-based education. feast-ed.org
Adult Child and Family of Origin Healing
Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA) - For adults who grew up in alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional homes. Offers 12-step-based healing and inner child work. adultchildren.org
Take Action
Sometimes, the first step is simply naming what’s happening.
Self-Assessment Tool
If you’re concerned about a loved one’s substance use, my Self-Assessment Tooloffers a private, reflective way to look at the signs and consider possible next steps.
Treatment Guidance
If your family is considering treatment options, I can help you evaluate programs, understand levels of care, and create a plan that supports both your loved one and your family system. Many centers also offer family education, support groups, or visitation programs.
You’re Not Alone
Healing begins with understanding, compassion, and connection. Whether you’re exploring these resources, attending a family group, or preparing for an intervention, you don’t have to do it on your own.
At Interventions With Love, you’ll find a partner who believes in recovery for the whole family through education, structure, and hope.
