When You Love Someone in Recovery
A Hopeful Guide to Understanding Addiction
By Caroline Beidler, MSW
Learn about the recovery lifestyle and how to support someone you love in the midst of their recovery journey
When You Love Someone in Recovery
A Hopeful Guide to Understanding Addiction
By Caroline Beidler, MSW
Learn about the recovery lifestyle and how to support someone you love in the midst of their recovery journey
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You can’t control their recovery. But you can choose your own healing.
Let this book show you how.
Loving someone in addiction recovery can be messy and confusing.
You might carry guilt, anger, and a deep fear they’ll relapse again.
You might walk on eggshells, wondering what to say or if you’re helping at all.
But what if your healing matters just as much as theirs?
In this compassionate guide, addiction recovery expert Caroline Beidler helps you:
- Release guilt and resentment
- Set healthy boundaries without shame
- Support your loved one without losing yourself
- Understand what the recovery journey is all about
- Find your own healing and purpose again
Rooted in personal experience and professional insight, this book walks you through four pillars of recovery—Hope, Wellness, Community, and Service—not just for your loved one, but for you, too.
Inside you’ll find real stories from families who’ve been there, brain-based insights and practical research, and simple exercises to help you process emotions, reclaim peace, and support your loved one.
Author, speaker, and addiction recovery expert Caroline Beidler offers friends and family members the gift of being able to understand the recovery lifestyle — a way of life that goes beyond anonymous meetings in church basements and fosters a sense of well-being, healthy coping strategies, discovering new passions, and nurturing a deep personal faith.
About Caroline Beidler
Caroline Beidler, MSW, is an author, speaker, and the managing editor of Recovery.com, an online resource that combines independent research with expert guidance on addiction and mental health treatment.
Her own lived experience in addiction, mental health, and trauma recovery inspires her to help other others find recovery in all its varying forms. In four short years she has built a global network of recovery supporters through her storytelling platform and accompanying newsletter, Circle of Chairs, which reaches thousands weekly.
She is a creative visionary, founding an annual global event on International Women’s Day with different sponsoring organizations each year that brings in thousands of supporters, along with coleading a global research initiative on family recovery with leaders around the world. Her writing is described as funny, gritty, relatable, and insightful. Caroline lives in Eastern Tennessee with her husband and six-year-old twins where she enjoys hiking in the mountains and building up her community’s local recovery ministry.
When You Love Someone in Recovery
When You Love Someone in Recovery is a call to both action and compassion and includes reflection exercises, real-life stories from people thriving in recovery, and powerful evidence-based research on the body and brain. You will come away with renewed hope and energy for walking alongside your loved ones in recovery, ready to watch God bring lasting healing to the most broken places.