Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction
Getting started
Understanding the interplay between relationships, addiction, and recovery efforts
Identifying barriers to working on relationships and staying motivated
Exploring the unhealthy and healthy aspects of your relationships
Developing your communication skills
Providing and seeking validation
Being honest with yourself and others
Rebuilding trust
Setting and maintaining healthy boundaries
Ending relationships appropriately
Building emotional intimacy
Monitoring your relationships and relationship skills

"Addiction can wreak havoc on relationships, destroying trust and damaging bonds with family, friends, and colleagues. Substance use both causes these interpersonal problems and becomes a method of trying to cope with them. Psychologist and addictions expert Kelly Green has learned through working with hundreds of clients that maintaining healthy relationships is key to the recovery process. In this compassionate, judgment-free guide, Dr. Green shares powerful tools for setting and maintaining boundaries, communicating feelings and needs, ending harmful relationships respectfully, and reestablishing emotional intimacy. With inspiring narratives, downloadable self-assessment worksheets, and exercises, this book lights the way to a life untethered from addiction--and filled with positive connections"-- Provided by publisher.

College of Education Graduate Studies Master of Arts in Education major in Guidance and Counseling

In English