THEIR ADDICTION SHOULDN’T BECOME YOUR LIFE.
When someone you love is struggling with alcohol, drugs, gambling or other addictive or compulsive behaviours, it can slowly begin to affect every part of your life too.
You may find yourself:
• Constantly worrying about what will happen next
• Trying to prevent another crisis
• Covering for them or rescuing them
• Questioning whether you’re helping or enabling
• Feeling angry, guilty, exhausted or emotionally drained
• Setting boundaries — then struggling to keep them
• Losing sight of your own needs
And while everyone is asking:
“How are they doing?”
Very few people stop to ask:
“How are you doing?”
I provide confidential online counselling for partners, parents, family members and friends affected by someone else’s addictive behaviour.
Counselling can help you understand the patterns you’ve become caught in, strengthen boundaries, manage anxiety and emotional exhaustion, and regain clarity about what you need moving forward.
You do not have to stop loving someone in order to start taking care of yourself.
You can’t control someone else’s recovery.
You can begin your own.
Jim Villamor
With Integrity Counselling
Addiction • Mental Health • Trauma • Family & Relationship Support
Online counselling available.
Book a confidential session today.
+61 420 616 452