Reposted from: Addiction Journal: The Guarantees of Addiction/Recovery The Guarantees of addiction/ recovery October 31, 2012 You are advised by other parents to not enable and to put your child out of your home if they are active in addiction. Their advice is intellectually sound, yet you feel it is unloving and cold. The advice goes
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Are You Enabling?
Are you enabling? Enabling is not the same as helping. Enabling refers to any behavior on your part that makes it easier for the addict to continue to abuse. If your husband is too hungover to get to work and you call in sick for him, then you have enabled his drinking and he is
8 Steps to Confronting an Addict: The Nathan Approach
The snare of addiction is an evil murky pit. Confronting your loved one caught in a web of addiction can be just as miry. Is there a biblical model we can follow to help guide us through the miry waters? 2 Samuel 12 comes to mind when speaking of confronting. In this passage, Nathan, the
Shedding the Enabler Label: Putting on the Label of Christ
Wearing the Label No one wants to wear the label of an enabler. Seriously. Who wants to have this label plastered on the front of their chest? An enabler often is convinced he is helping his loved one in addiction, when, in reality, he is enabling the addict. The two are distinctly different. Understanding the Label
You Are That Man: The Nathan Approach to Confronting an Addict
Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! The Lord, the God of Israel, says: I anointed you king of Israel and saved you from the power of Saul. 2 Samuel 12:7 Be on Your Toes Working around life threatening situations was an every day occurrence for many of my nursing career days. Most