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The Hidden Struggles of Families in Recovery

7 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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Amber Hollingsworth (YouTube, uploaded Aug 7, 2024) explains that achieving sobriety does not resolve all problems: family members often continue to carry unresolved hurt, pain, and resentments that remain close to the surface and can be easily triggered, leading to emotional meltdowns even after a loved one becomes sober.

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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.