At Awakening Recovery we believe alcoholism and drug addiction is a family disease as it effects the whole family. We highly recommend Al-Anon to all of our resident families during our family peer mentoring house meeting on Saturdays so they can begin healing in parallel with their residents. When the family is involved and supportive of their resident’s recovery path in the house it can greatly increase their chance of success long-term.
“Sixteen years after the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous, the wife of AA co-founder, Lois Wilson, and her founding partner, Anne B., established Al-Anon as an outlet for those feeling hopeless.”
To read more visit this excellent article on Eagle news website: https://eaglenews.org/entertainment-and-lifestyle/health/al-anon-recognizing-abuse-and-those-left-behind/
About the author:
David van der Velde is the Executive Director of Awakening Recovery
David got clean and sober in 1988 at the age of 19, close to death from his own struggles with drug addiction and alcoholism. Now 32+ years clean and sober, he has been consistently active in his recovery community by mentoring others, serves on recovery and youth related non-profit Boards such as LifeWorks and the West Hollywood Recovery Center, and serves on panels at institutions speaking from his own experience about recovery.
Joelene Knight, is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Grace Recovery, a sub-acute and residential treatment program located in Hollywood, California, as well as a Board Member at Awakening Recovery, a unique life-saving nonprofit that specializes in recovery homes with a long-term, 12-Step addiction solution that creates a lasting change in core beliefs and behaviors.