From Isolation and Withdrawal to Partnership and Support
Organize Relationships to Sponsor Recovery
- Honor the Christ-like virtues requisite to sponsoring a loved one’s recovery.
- Discern the differences between justice and retribution, and mercy and enabling. Use both justice and mercy for recovery.
- Make love, truth, and Spirit preeminent.
- Negotiate an acceptably transparent recovery.
- Bring into the open habituated patterns of deceit.
- Learn that lying enables addiction and cripples recovery.
- Be persuaded that lying is more damaging to the relationship than addiction.
- Build strength to speak the truth always by disclosing daily your experience of addiction and recovery.
- Learn the benefits of truth-telling.
- Consider how to provide encouragement and support.
- Provide for relationship accountability.
- Assist in managing guilt and shame for repentance effect.
- Use truth for recovery.