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Scenario

How families navigate addiction while preserving relationships

Our whole family knows my brother is struggling with addiction but we've all developed these elaborate ways of talking around it and enabling it and protecting each other from the truth. We're all exhausted from caring so much and helping so little.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Love becomes a form of collective delusion when everyone agrees not to see what's destroying them all.

Your guide for this
Mira
Mira works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Living with loss long-term?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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