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Bringing Child Home After Rehab: Caution Advised

1 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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Amber Hollingsworth (speaker) strongly advises parents not to bring adult children back home immediately after rehab. She explains that parents easily slip into a monitoring/‘mom’ role—becoming anxious, nagging, or emotionally taxed when they witness lapses—which undermines recovery and family dynamics. Instead she recommends placing graduates in a sober living environment (ideally a women’s sober living) as the preferred next step.

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We strongly advise not bring adult children back home after treatment. It almost always ends badly even if they're really trying on the recovery because what happens is it's just so hard for you as the parent not to fall into the monitoring role every time she sleeps in if she misses a meeting, if she's not doing her meditations you're gonna be on edge right because you're having that front row seat and you're gonna be nervous and you're either and you might start ask her about it or nagging her about it and even if you can resist doing that you're going to be feeling it which means your energy is going to be putting it a hell. You can't stop being the mom right? It's just really hard to get out of that role and it just doesn't work well the preference for us is sober living going from a treatment to a good women sober living that would be the ideal setting.