Rebuilding Relationships in Recovery: How to Connect with Family and Close Friends After Active Alcoholism and Addiction—With Science-Based Assessment Tools and Practices
How to heal relationships, mend rifts with loved ones, and balance the demands of sobriety with the need for family connection. An empowering guide for recovering addicts and alcoholics from an author with lived experience and professional expertise. In Rebuilding Relationships in Recovery, Janice V. Johnson Dowd shows listeners how to repair and enhance their relationships after active addiction. With personal insights and professional wisdom, Dowd—a licensed social worker in recovery—explores her own personal journey through alcoholism, offering a realistic and transformative guide. Centered on nurturing the critical balance between the self-healing of your own sobriety journey and building bridges and connections with loved ones, Dowd’s narrative combines empathetic insights with practical tools. Rebuilding Relationships in Recovery is a roadmap to healing and thriving in sobriety, offering hope and actionable strategies for those seeking to rebuild trust and deepen their family bonds.