How Couples Recover Love and Meaning : Reclaim Your Family from Addiction

Designed for those working with couples in recovery from addiction, this facilitator's guide provides, along with the complete contents of the Reclaim Your Family from Addiction Workbook for couples, page-by-page sidebars advising professionals how best to use the workbook, guide clients through it, and provide support, encouragement, and insight as couples grapple with the ideas and issues found in the exercises. Applying and expanding on the principles set out in Craig Nakkens' book Reclaim Your Family from Addiction, the workbook and facilitator's guide lead couples through a series of writing exercises and discussions addressing a broad range of issues that effect healthy relationships and those beset by addiction. As a result, each family will be able to develop its own workable, step-by-step program for repairing and restoring the bonds of intimacy frayed and strained by addiction.Nakken, Craig is the author of 'How Couples Recover Love and Meaning : Reclaim Your Family from Addiction', published 2005 under ISBN 9781568385570 and ISBN 1568385579.