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Free Community Workshop Series!
Leadem Counseling is launching 3 free community workshop series in central New Jersey. Each series will seek to address one facet of addiction ranging from how to promote sober parenting in your home, to debunking the myths surrounding relapse, to learning how best to intervene on a loved one who is struggling with addiction and remains in denial. These workshops are open to all who would like to attend, so if you can personally relate to one of the above focal points, are a concerned loved one, a community or religious leader, or a therapist looking to learn more- you are welcome. We hope to see you there!
Sober Parenting
Carrying the Hope to Our Children
This workshop series is designed to assist participants in developing a “Sober Family Commonwealth” in which all the members contribute to the wealth and derive benefits from it. Participants will develop a deeper appreciation of the ways in which their children may be negatively impacted by untreated parental addiction or the conflicts of early recovery. The talks will highlight strategies for guiding your children through the behavioral and emotional challenges that they are facing as a result of the emotionally challenging environment they have been emersed in. It is hoped that recovering parents can build a family bond that will be viewed by their children as being more durable and sustaining then the lure of the street corner.
Debunking the Myths About Relapse
Enhance Your Recovery
We believe that relapse is a process and not an event and as such can be identified, intervened on and prevented! If you have experienced any of the consequences of an addictive illness, then you have known pain. Addiction hurts whether you are the addict, or one of the victims close to the epicenter of the addictive disorder such as a spouse, a family member, an employer, or neighbor. In fact, the costs of untreated addiction impact us at every level of society and while we invest a great deal of emotional and financial resources collectively, there is still much we could do if we invested more therapeutic resources in stopping the destructive cycle. In this workshop we will propose a model that will aid you in the process of understanding the rudiments of identifying the presence of relapse risks, how to intervene on the process and preventing the first or the next relapse.
Therapeutic Addiction Interventions
Effective Interventions Are Where All Involved Hit Bottom
The idea that no one can help an addicted person until he or she hits rock bottom is a notion that has been around since man learned how to ferment beer. One would suspect that the author of the “rock bottom” model must have been a concerned family member who hit a stone wall trying a single handed intervention on a loved one who was an active alcoholic. You can almost hear some desperate wife saying, “Why can’t he see what he is doing to himself. I don’t know how much longer he and the rest of the family can suffer”. It is expected that once the requisite amount of pain has been endured, the user will have a spontaneous moment of clarity and personal motivation to get and remain sober. The reality is that many addicted people will die before they can see or feel what those around them have known for some time. This workshop will provide the participants with another way to see reality where all involved in seeking change for the addicted individual also seek change themselves.