SafeHouse Podcast
Season 3- Episode 03 Part 2
Busting Addiction and Its Myths
The purpose of our podcast is to help families learn the truth about addiction and alcoholism so that they can take the right action to help the addict they love and to help themselves at this critical time in their lives. Exposing the truth about addiction and alcoholism also requires that we bust the myths surrounding both addiction/alcoholism and the recovery process.
Robert Speaks About Recovery – Part 2 of 2
Season 3 – Episode 03 Part 2
The Cunning, Baffling, Powerful Family Disease: Part two of my interview with veteran counsellor Robert.
Here is what Robert, our lead counsellor at SafeHouse Rehab Thailand, talks about in the second part of his interview, explaining what it takes for him to stay clean and sober and what one can do (and not do) for a loved one suffering from addictive disease.
1. I have acquired a great deal of empathy for the families of addicts and alcoholics because of my exceptionally hard upbringing as a poor bi-racial kid in the UK.
2. To get sober, I had to admit that my best thinking got me to the gates of death and hell and that I needed to surrender my old ways of thinking.
3. To stay sober, I needed to see this as a commitment to a new way of life and to understand that it was an all or nothing deal, that it was 10% stopping drug abuse and 90%-character development.
4. It is true that for most addicts, they need to hit bottom before they accept help, but there is also an informed intervention about which there is lots of guidance.
5. The most important thing that actually can be done by anyone who loves an addict, for sure, is to shift the focus from the addict to oneself because it is all about what you do have the power to do.
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