Family Workshops and Retreats
The Family Restored Support Group stresses the importance of family members actively engaging in their own recovery. Often times, families are so focused on the chaos of their loved one’s addiction, they neglect their own self-care. We believe that regardless of how your loved one is doing, you can live a fulfilled life. The Family Restored offers retreats and workshops that focus on families and what they need.
12-Step Workshops for Families
The Family Restored highly encourages a 12- step experience aimed at solving the loved one’s way of responding to their family member who is struggling with addiction. We believe this can be one of the key components to a recovered life as a family member or loved one.
The 12 steps are a concrete set of instructions to recover from a recurring problem in your life. This program is what we, as people in recovery, have used to recover from our addiction, and it can be used by anyone trying to combat addictive issues. The reason we believe this is so important in the loved one’s recovery is because it gives you an opportunity to take real constructive action, to identify and break unhelpful patterns of interaction with your loved one, to stop being held hostage by their sickness, and to regain control of your own lives.
The 12 steps have the answers that you will need when trying to deal with the pain and frustration of loving someone who is struggling with addiction.
The steps will help you deal with pain and learn to grow and change as a person. They will help you become stronger, understand yourself, and most importantly, build unwavering faith. We believe that faith is paramount because there is no guarantee that your loved one will ever get better, but you have the ability to get better.
The 12 steps are not a religious program, and this is a very common misconception. You do not have to believe in god, you do not have to have faith, you do not have to even believe that it will work for you when you begin. You simply have to be willing to try. We believe that, faced with your own powerlessness over your loved one’s addiction, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Family Retreats
The Family Restored initiated a family retreat in 2021 for families to have a chance to connect with one another and bring the focus back to their own well being. We saw that just as those in early recovery benefit from community, families can as well and we wanted to provide a space that offered peace and fellowship. Retreats are open to family members who have loved ones that are struggling with addiction, and who may regularly attend family support groups.
Activities
Retreats are held twice a year in New England during the warmer months and include activities such as: group meetings of different topics, yoga, meditation, walks, time to sit with nature, journal prompts and sharing meals with one another.
Who can join?
Anyone who has a loved one struggling with addiction is welcome to join our retreats.
