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

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26 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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Amber Hollingsworth (YouTube, Apr 26, 2023) advises people trying to help an addicted loved one to "get your heart right" — approach them from a loving, caring, helpful place rather than anger or fear. She emphasizes that recovery is a parallel process for both the person with the addiction and their family, and that sometimes the family’s recovery can lead the individual to begin theirs.

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The most critical thing that you absolutely have to do. If you're trying to help an addicted loved one. Is you have to get your heart right. Because when you get your heart right about the situation. And you're coming at someone in a loving, caring, helpful way. That comes through in everything that you say. If you're coming from an angry place, in a fearful place, which I get that there are good reasons to feel angry and fearful. I don't want to minimize that at all. But when you let those emotions dominate you. Even when you're saying and you're doing the right things, definitely across. It's not until we have this shift of heart that it becomes different, that it becomes easier. I say all the time on here that it's really like a parallel process. That the person with the addiction goes through and the family goes through. It really is the same steps. It's the same process. Now, most people think that the person with the addiction has to go through the process first, and then the family gets better. But another way for it to happen is for the family to get better first. And the family goes through the process. And then the person with the addiction will go through the process.