May 9, 2007An Intervention
I had the ultimate Speak Strong event this week. My older sister, mother, younger sister’s husband, and a professional interventionist arrived unannounced and had an intervention on my alcoholic younger sister. We loosely followed the guidance of the book “Love First: Intervention for Alcoholism and Drug Addiction” (by the Jays) to write letters to her to read during the intervention.
The letters had three parts – tell what you love and miss about her, tell what alcohol has done to her and yourself, lay down the bottom line that you won’t support her addiction anymore.
It worked and she went off to a detox and rehab center for a 6 week in-patient program. She will be mad at us for a long time, but hopefully she will remember the kind words we started with when we were Speaking Strong.
An interesting thing the Dr. said that was there and prepped us, that the famous clinic where he used to work claimed that only 10% of the families considering intervention ever get organized enough to do it, but there is a 90% success rate to get the person help (either that day or later) after an intervention. That is the power of Speaking Strong.
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