Amber HollingsworthRecovery Conversation Simulator, Amber's Recovery Practice Lab · Interactive learning tool trained on Amber methodoloy

Secretly Sober🤐🤐

26 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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Amber Hollingsworth says people with addiction often hide their struggle from counselors and coaches out of shame, but the people closest to them usually already know. Involving those loved ones matters more than keeping it secret.

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Embarrassed to bring anyone from the outside into the situation. Whether that's like a counselor, a coach, meetings, like an IOP program. And that's also another, you know, pretty common, fairly valid thing that they're thinking that I'm gonna do this. They're sincere in it, but I don't want anyone else to know about it. The thing that you might be missing, if this is what you're thinking, if you have an addiction that's bad enough to need outside help, other people already know. I know it's not the best news ever. And, in fact, the most important people already are the closest people to you. The people that love you the most, who care about you the most, who are in your daily life the most, they already know.