The Family Restored Support Group


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Meetings

Frequently Asked Questions

Al-Anon meetings can be very helpful for families seeking support in dealing with a loved one’s addiction. Just like Alcoholics Anonymous are meetings of alcoholics helping other alcoholics, Al-Anon is strictly families helping families. At The Family Restored Support Group, we take a unique approach where people in recovery facilitate the meeting and use their personal experience to help educate and support families. It makes sense to get information and help from someone who has experienced addiction first-hand and overcome it. Our meetings are solution based and provide insight into the mind and behaviors of people struggling with addiction, and what eventually worked in helping them recover.

There is no requirement to speak at the support meetings. You share as little or as much as you need or desire. At The Family Restored Support Group meetings families are encouraged, not mandated, to speak freely about their situation and struggles.  All issues discussed in the meeting are confidential.

Addiction is a family disease and even the best of families can find themselves completely submerged in their loved ones addiction. This is often most apparent in the family’s desperate desire to control their loved one’s behaviors, emotions, and recovery. Families are known to become obsessed with their loved one causing them to enable, spy and live in constant fear, often neglecting other family members or their own lives and responsibilities. Although most family members may never stop worrying, it is possible to separate yourself from your loved one and love them from a distance. Family members who are well, will realize they have little control over their loved one’s addiction and will stop engaging in paranoid, enabling behavior. They will be able to set better and healthier boundaries both for themselves and their loved one.

The Family Restored Support Group is a closed meeting for families and friends who have a loved one suffering from addiction. We encourage loved ones who are seeking recovery to attend 12-Step meetings.