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Hidden Struggles of Families in Recovery

1 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief excerpt, Amber Hollingsworth explains that when an individual achieves sobriety, families often assume that the challenges are over. However, she points out two critical, lingering issues: the sober person still experiences personal triggers, and family members continue to carry unresolved hurt, pain, and resentments. These unaddressed emotions remain close to the surface and can be easily activated, leading to emotional meltdowns that jeopardize the recovery environment.

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Once a person gets sober, we think that everything's going to be great. Now, we might realize that the addictive person still has triggers, which we're going to talk about in just a second. But a lot of times we don't realize that as a family member, we don't realize that we're not better as in the hurt, the pain, the resentments, all of that is still brewing inside of us and it sits right at the surface and it doesn't take a whole lot to trigger us into meltdown.