FAMILIES SPEAK: How Do You Have Difficult Conversations?

Coming Up for Air — A Toolkit to Help with Your Loved One's Recovery from Addiction & Mental Illness

When your Loved One has substance use and/or mental illness, communication can get sticky and prickly pretty quickly. Yet there's no world where we'll never need to have difficult conversations with our family members. CRAFT provides an incredibly effective toolbox for developing more easeful relationships. In this episode, our co-hosts—family members dealing with a Loved One's substance/mental health struggles—share how they've come to approach sensitive topics.

The skillset they've learned from Allies in Recovery, and the dedicated way they have practiced using those skills, has helped them to recognize the best times to share a comment, the best tone/mindset to adopt when doing so, and what reasonable expectations are for these exchanges.

Every human can benefit from this conversation which is overflowing with wisdom, humility and common sense approaches.

Learn more about Allies in Recovery and how we can help you help your Loved One.