Brief residential programme

The family recovery programme includes:

• Understanding addiction and its effects – perspectives on the consuming relationship and how these relate to your situation
• Understanding your feelings: shame, guilt, fear and anxiety, anger, loneliness, depression and hopelessness, stress
• Living with and coping with addiction – the struggle for control and addiction to ‘hopium’
• You and your family – how things work now, how they don’t, how they could
• Values, patterns, norms, dynamics, roles, boundaries, communication
• Your role in the family
• Genogram – the generational perspective
• Developing a personal recovery plan – what it means, what is involved
• New ways of coping; new ways of being – plans for the future