Have you sacrificed your own well being with the sole desire of saving your addict?
Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Have you tried everything you can think of to help your loved ones…to no avail? Are you exhausted? Do you feel helpless and hopeless; trapped by the knowledge that what you have been doing is not working?
Why isn’t it working?
In this first ebooklet of the Putting the Spotlight On series, written by Diane Viere, Founder of Partners In Prayer For Our Prodigals, Host of The Prodigal Hope Network and Christian Counselor and Elaine Altman-Eller, Family Recovery Specialist, you will discover the critical difference between helping and enabling, the traps of enabling, and the cycle of destruction that occurs until we stop enabling the addicts we love.
The Sights and Sounds of Enabling puts the spotlight on the ineffectiveness and collateral damage caused by enabling. Discover why enabling never works and how you can stop enabling today. Step out of the darkness of your hopelessness today; step into your strength—learn how to love your addict effectively and become a guiding light for their recovery.
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I hope tihs is close to the topic. My husband & I have been enablers to our kids partly becuase
we haven’t taken time to say no when we are stressed tired o
r other things.I want to think we don’t get more than we can handle. It often makes just a little sense.
We are older parents who get help rarely from friends. So we feel burned and have 2 with
learning problems/one has Aspergers. I’m kinda tough, but not your typical strong, I have a ways to go.
It certainly doesn’t make it better to have a huaband who says don’t cry cuase he thinks tough
ppl don’t cry Ouch to that. So therapy does nothing & I’m just praying more. I know I need to change
but hubby thinks cuase he does laundry and can cook that he’s the perfect man.
No understand ing of feelings. The next time your husband understands or wants to go on a date be glad for it! No dates here. Hubby would rather us do laundry.