If someone you care about needs help but refuses to accept it, an intervention can be the most loving, healthy, and successful way to address their self-destructive behavior. As an intervention specialist I am trained and experienced in uniting and guiding families through the intervention process. This can be done successfully without the turmoil of a surprise confrontation that can cause the addicted loved one shame or humiliation.

A carefully planned and facilitated intervention - done in a gentle, loving, and respectful manner - empowers a family to accomplish what for too long seemed impossible.Typically families impacted by addiction share a variety of feelings such as chaos, confusion, frustration, fear, anger, shame, guilt and hopelessness. Any of this sound familiar? Believe it or not, most addicts and alcoholics share those same feelings at times, although this is rarely enough to motivate them to get help. Instead they (sometimes unconsciously) capitalize on the immobilizing effect these experiences have on the people who care about them.

Despite what addicts say and no matter how good their intentions, most of their behaviors are directed towards sustaining their addiction. Denial, lying, manipulation, defensiveness, anger, telling you what you want to hear and isolation are the tools of choice for the addict and they are able to use these tools with uncanny expertise. This is why efforts to get a loved one to address the problem are met with resistance at every turn. There is a solution - a clear, decisive and successful means of help that is available to those who know they must do something different. Please visit my site for more information today.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness, concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision.

--JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE