For Family Members of Loved Ones Struggling with Addiction

Healing When It Hurts

An interactive and essential workshop to take care of all parts of you, so that you can take care of the relationship with your loved one. 

 

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Simple Practices to Calm Your Body, Clear Your Mind, and Reconnect with Your Heart

 

When someone you love is struggling with addiction, it doesn't just affect them - it lives in your body, overwhelms your mind, and drains your spirit

 

You feel it in a tight chest

The racing thoughts

The constant waiting for the next crisis

 

If you're tired of living in fight, flight, or freeze

If you want to respond instead of react

If you want and need to feel more grounded and steady again

 

This workshop is for you.  It is a personal experience for you to try on simple and practical tips to:

Calm your nervous system in real time

Quiet the mental chatter, fear and worry

Reconnect with your truest, wise, and kindest self

Stay loving without losing yourself


You can't control your loved one's choices.

You can learn to steady your own body, clarify your thinking, and anchor into your heart.

From that place ... everything changes.

  • Worry - Where is my child.  How are they, they're living under a bush or a bridge? There are health complications. You're waiting for "the call".
  • Guilt - I did something wrong. I did too much, didn't do enough. I shouldn't haven't said that. I should have done it better.
  • Anger - The system is stacked against us,. I do so much and they don't appreciate it. My friends and family don't understand.
  • Grief - I'm losing my sanity, my life, my happiness. My child is spiraling deeper and deeper into addiction. I can't believe it's gotten so bad,. Everything has changed and it's getting worse, won't get better.

Healing When It Hurts

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Please Register Here to Get Reminders and Zoom Link

​"The Work is a way to end confusion and experience inner peace, even in a world of apparent chaos." 

 

“Healing healing healing

 

Healing When It Hurts

Simple Practices to Calm Your Body, Clear Your Mind, and Reconnect with Your Heart

 

Tuesday, March 24
 
12:00-1:00pm Pacific

 

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  •  We welcome all thoughts and emotions with gentle care

  • We identify the stories that keep you stuck in pain

  • We meet your experiences with curiosity and compassion

  • We shine light into the darkness meeting it with the light of loving awareness

   

  •  You'll know how to transform your fear (worry, guilt, anger) into peace 
  •   You'll be supported and inspired by group wisdom
  •   You'll see the innocence in you and your loved one, even when it's hard
  •   You'll find inspiration in embracing your fear while using it as a path to unconditional love
YES to LOVE

With Donation or Free

 

Suggested $10

Donations can be made to:

Zelle (preferred):  [email protected]


Venmo: @JoanneRichards3


PayPal:  paypal.me/joannerichards3

 

No one is turned away even if you don't donate. You are welcome any time.

Healing Hearts and two more monthly The Work sessions are included for anyone currently in a program with Joanne. 

Please Register to Get Reminders and Zoom Link.  This is a drop-in so you're welcome to come whenever you'd like. 

 

Why Join Now?

 

The longer you wait is the longer fear makes hard things even more complicated.  

Peace doesn't arrive after your loved one changes.

Peace starts and continues with you. 

Give it to you, and you give it to your loved one too.

How much more time do you have to remain in confusion and pain?   

 

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Welcome, I'm Joanne

Hello to you, my fellow courageous family member. For over 20 years as a Licensed Therapist specializing in Family Recovery, I’ve helped hundreds of families go from just surviving their loved one's addiction to becoming the safe, peaceful, supportive family member their loved one needs and the one they want to be.  Because I’ve walked this journey, I know how exhausting it can be, how family can replay every conversation, worry as their loved one slowly slips away, and feel guilty that they got angry or think they did something to make it worse. I help families relieve the many fears that are part of this journey, restore connection, communicate to inspire, and bring calm to the chaos.

"Joanne Richards to me is an earth angel. She is ever wise, considerate, kind, generous, loves unconditionally with no judgment, and she looks into my soul through my eyes and sees the real me despite her own struggles in life."

– PBS

"Joanne Richards - loving you so sweetest mama. And thank YOU for the big part you play in my life- you have been a mentor helping us all find our way back to love."

– KC

"It was your group and your words that taught me how to love my child through her addiction. Your words helped me help her realize her strength and worth. I thank you every day for her life and mine."

– RDB

"You helped me learn how to communicate with my son and I’m forever grateful. He has been in recovery and is living on his own & working. I’m still working on my own self and our relationship is better than ever. The bonus is he calls me almost every day, love wins!"

– PB

Have questions?

A Path to Love is a community of family members loving someone through an addiction. In A Path to Love, we do The Work of Byron Katie, a process of questioning thoughts, finding your own inner wisdom, and letting that insight guide you to clarity, peace, and unconditional love. 

 

This is a drop-in community. Deep healing and transformation can be experienced the more you attend and do The Work.  Healing is a practice that benefits you and ripples into the world.


This is not therapy or crisis intervention. No online discussion should be used to replace therapy.  If in crisis, please seek crisis intervention or 988 if you or another is having thoughts of suicide.