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Helping Families Recover From Addiction

When addiction enters a home, recovery is necessary for the entire family.

The fear, shame, and stigma associated with addiction can prevent families from discussing and addressing the issues that affect everyone who loves the addict. I know from personal experience that addiction is best responded to when we address the spiritual and familial dimensions of the disease, in addition to the physical aspects.

Helping Families Recover from Addiction: Coping, Growing, and Healing through 12-Step Practices and Ignatian Spirituality retells my journey “working the steps” as a family member of people with addictions. I draws on personal stories and research, including examples from Father Ed Dowling, SJ, spiritual advisor to Bill W., a co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, and others to illustrate the connections between this life-saving program and Ignatian Spirituality. Each chapter ends with reflection points based on Scripture that can help readers as they begin the work of each of the Twelve Steps.

Story-driven, integrative, and practical, this book can help families heal from the effects of a loved one’s addiction and move into a healthy and promising future.

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Jean Heaton has put together a very readable and well researched book on using the 12 Steps of Recovery from addiction and the insights of Ignatian spirituality.  She writes effectively and invites the reader into a world that is honest and healing. I very much liked her pointing to many contemporary voices to boost the message of recovery.  Jean presents us with a friendly and well balanced invitation to living a life of honesty, gratitude, and service.  Thank God for families getting well.

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