A:  Some feel $4,500 is expensive, some actually feel it is a deal compared to the financial loss already drained to the addiction. Either way, we can all agree addiction is co$tly!  Addiction is also a chronic, life long illness that usually goes untreated. Addiction treatment facilities, the emergency room and health insurance should all be free- in our humble opinion. But they aren’t.  Since this proven program works and those often don’t and we know we can’t change the entire industry overnight…. we decided to help the families who are ready for change now.  We have documented data that shows an over 87% success rate.  Eventually, and over time, we hope our data will inspire insurance companies and treatment facilities to do what works and we invite you to join us in this pursuit. However, in the meantime, we hope you agree that you and your loved one deserve to have the best chance for success.  Families who enroll with us keep their loved ones in treatment longer.  Please email our headquarters if you’d like to join the initiative of changing the conversation system wide at hello@tippingpointrecovery.com.

A: Addiction treatment is designed for those who don’t want it. So them wanting it, or not, doesn’t matter at this point. You want it, you want it for them. Helping you will help them want it!

Addiction controls the brain, making someone less inclined to want recovery until after they start to get it (it’s a total catch-22).

Addiction treatment is for those who don’t think they need it.  That’s the nature of the illness, and this is why so many struggle: they are left to “want it” but the illness prevents them from seeing that on their own.

If you wait for your loved one to want it, you could end up waiting too long. Learning these tools is going to shift the energy around your addict through you so that their wanting will increase.

A: The timing of this course coinciding with when a loved one is in treatment is perfect, actually, and here is why. In treatment, your loved one is told they only need to change one thing: Everything.  As their loved one, you are part of their everything. By taking part in a program like this, you are helping your loved one change their everything and are partnering with them on a recovery path. We suggest you let them know you are enrolled in this program, let them know you are learning about addiction and taking part in 12 step work. They’ll be very happy (if they want to be sober).  They won’t be happy if they want to use/drink (but you will be so glad you did so you can better help). 

This course will also give you the much needed skills and language to use to help your loved one stay in treatment longer than they may want to. You know that phone call you dread, when they say ‘”I’m ready to come home”?  We’ll give you the exact tools to help your loved one stay in treatment and be able to help them maintain their recovery once they leave treatment. The first 30 days post treatment is the timeframe when someone in early recovery is most likely to relapse. By being in this program, you will learn what to say and do to be a completely different container for them and their recovery, giving them a 5X greater chance at lasting recovery.

A: This is really common. We often have people call us who are two or three degrees of separation away from the alcoholic, and you’re right, the person closest to the alcoholic is the one who has the most influence. And this program will absolutely still work for you, because our curriculum is designed to move through the barriers of denying, justifying, minimizing and accommodating behavior. The work that we do is all about engaging people who don’t want to be engaged. Most commonly that is the alcoholic themselves, who is resistant to looking at what they need to do to change, but very often the people closest to the addict are just as resistant and fearful of what to do. If you come into this program, our first focus will be to help you engage those closest to your addict, just like we help people engage the addict themselves. For example, we have a woman in our program who is the sister of an alcoholic. She doesn’t live anywhere near her sister who is married. Before joining this program, she wasn’t able to engage her sister’s husband to get his wife the help she needed. Through this course, we are helping her to do just that. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter who starts the conversation, it just needs to be started. If you’re here, chances are it’s you who’s being called to begin the recovery conversation.