family workshop

The abuse of alcohol and other drugs impacts every member of the family.  In addition to weekly phone sessions with your child’s therapist you will have the opportunity to attend a two day workshop near the end of the program.

When a person chooses to engage in mind altering substances, they do so at the expense of displacing relationships with all others.  The traditional peoples of North America used the term “Other” to include ones relationship to not only other humans but, all living things including the changing of the seasons.  The Passages to Recovery experience fundamentally reverses the addictive process for you and your family.  Your child has learned to trade the unnatural highs of addiction for the natural highs of good relationships.  It’s a worthwhile trade and your child wants to keep it.  You will learn what is for you to do and how to continue in your role.

The Family Workshop encompasses open, honest communication that is healthy for all involved.  Recovery is, in many ways, an inner journey, and people with addictions often feel alone.  In their aloneness, they ache and yearn for another state of mind and body.  Passages Family Workshop illuminates the re-bonding process.