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Scenario

When siblings disagree on how to help an addicted parent

My sister and I are both dealing with our mom's alcoholism but she thinks we should stage an intervention and I think we should just stop enabling her, and meanwhile Mom is getting worse and we're spending more energy fighting each other than actually helping her.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Competing approaches to helping someone self-destructive can fracture the very relationships needed to provide effective support.

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Rabia
Rabia works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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“Where Are You with Healing from a difficult childhood?”

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