Parenting Through Your Adult Child's Addiction: Making Sense of Treatment, Aftercare, and Recovery Recommendations

by Ginny Mills

If only you could control the outcome…
No parent imagines their tiny infant growing up to have an addiction. Your once precious child now makes frightening choices and takes terrifying risks. You are worried your son or daughter’s use of drugs or alcohol has reached a sufficient level of concern that you are exploring or have already admitted your adult child to treatment.
You are hard-wired as a parent to love, provide, protect, nurture, and rescue your young, just like every other mammal. You’ve ranted and punished, cried and pleaded, and it may have felt like nothing seemed to matter. Yet here you are, trying to learn what you can do to support your loved one without revealing the resentments, doubts, fears, and expectations you harbor.
Must it get even worse before it gets better?

135 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 13, 2019

Reviews

[Deanna Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a broad overview. Even though it was obviously written as part of a marketing effort for the author’s online programs, there is a decent outline of the kind of things that the parent of an adult child dealing with addiction needs to learn more about. I found it both helpful and discouraging. Helpful because I have a better idea of what I need to know and discouraging because it showed me exactly how little I know what I’m doing now.

[DTDofNC · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ginny does a great job explaining how addictions affect the individual with the addiction, the parent, and the family as a whole. The treatment plan examples are realistic and offer families hope by letting them know that fighting addictions can be done with the help of others. It doesn't use tough love, but builds on the principles of accountability and action on behalf of the person with the addiction as well as the parent. This is an excellent to keep handy for future reference.