My mother said “I am so glad you’re alive, and you are not welcome in my home or in my life until you are living a life of recovery. If I never see you alive again, I want to you know how much will be missed. And she closed the door on me”.
Detaching with love is a difficult thing to do. This video shows how this mother accomplished it. This film clip illustrates how a mother and daughter went through this process illustrating a solution to [tag-self]codependency[/tag-self] and open the door to addiction treatment and addiction recovery and came out the other side.
Overcoming Drug and Alcohol Addiction – Curry and Wandzilak
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=995 Co-authors Constance Curry and Kristina Wandzilak discuss the struggles with drug and alcohol addiction at the heart of their book, “The Lost Years: Surviving a Mother and Daughter’s Worst Nightmare.” —– Constance Curry and Kristina Wandzilak talk about “The Lost Years: Surviving a Mother and Daughter’s Worst Nightmare.” This riveting memoir of survival and transformation reveals the true story of a daughter’s decline into alcohol and drug addiction, prostitution and homelessness, and her mother’s efforts to rescue her.
- Book Passage Kristina Wandzilak is the Executive director of Full Circle Intervention, a nationally recognized presenter and author. She has worked in the chemical dependency field since 1994. Kristina has been specializing in intervention since 1998 and opened the doors of Full Circle Intervention, with the vision of bringing respectful intervention to families who are in crisis with addiction. Constance Curry has been in co-dependency recovery for many years. She has studied and tried to understand the disorder that took over her life and the lives of those she loved most. She has been on various educational speaker panels for practicing therapists and teachers talking on the intricate subject of [tag-tec]addiction[/tag-tec] and family recovery.
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Please be aware that there is a 12 step program for family & loved ones of addicts called Nar-Anon Family Groups. http://www.nar-anon.org
It made a huge difference for me after atending al-anon meetings to hear my story of having an addicted daughter.
Thank you