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    612-822-4611

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Beyond Enabling: Letting Go Without Giving Up on Your Addicted Child

Beyond Enabling: Letting Go Without Giving Up on Your Addicted Child

Verrow, Lucien

Paperback

Addiction & RecoveryGeneral ParentingSelf-Help

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ISBN13: 9798187191819
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Beyond Enabling: Letting Go Without Giving Up on Your Addicted Child
There is a question that haunts every parent watching their child struggle with addiction: am I helping, or am I making this worse? Beyond Enabling was written for the parent living inside that question, exhausted by years of rescue, rocked by guilt they never deserved to carry, and desperate for a way forward that does not require choosing between abandoning their child or losing themselves entirely.

Inside, readers will learn how to:

  • Recognize the quiet, disguised ways rescue and enabling take root, even in the most loving households
  • Release guilt built on the false belief that they caused their child's addiction
  • Understand fear as the hidden architect behind so many painful decisions
  • Set boundaries that come from love, not punishment, and actually hold under pressure
  • Tell the difference between detaching with love and disappearing altogether
  • Rebuild trust in their own judgment after years of second-guessing
  • Speak difficult truths without shame, blame, or slipping back into rescue
  • Support a child's recovery without carrying it as their own
  • Survive relapse without losing their own footing or hope
  • Reclaim the parts of their own life, identity, and support system the crisis quietly consumed
Written with the steady voice of a coach who understands both the science of addiction and the lived reality of loving someone through it, this book does not offer easy answers or guaranteed outcomes. Instead, it offers a sustainable path forward, one where fierce love and released control can finally exist side by side.

For anyone standing in the exhausting space between rescue and retreat, Beyond Enabling offers not a formula, but a companion: a way to keep loving fiercely, without ever again mistaking that love for a rescue that was never truly working.

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