Every family is complicated, and dealing with addiction makes them even more complicated. If you or your loved has reached a certain level of sobriety, you’ve discovered that just being sober doesn’t heal the emotional wounds inflicted on family members and loved ones. There’s still a lot of hurt, anger, resentment, and trust issues that must be resolved. 

Now that you’re healthy as a person, you want to be in healthy relationships with other people. But, let’s be honest. Most, if not all, of your relationships have been affected by your addiction. How can you repair the damage and start to build strong, healthy supportive relationships with friends, family and loved ones?

Steve Makofka, has a BS in Education, a Master of Divinity degree, and is a Certified Family Life Educator through the National Council on Family Relations.  He is the Founder of Family Dynamics LLC, through which he helps provide resources for groups that help build families. He has 25 years’ experience as a pastor of youth and family ministries and almost 10 years’ experience as a psychoeducational group leader on a mental health inpatient unit, teaching life skills to adolescents and adults.