When Enough is Enough by Candy Finnigan

Author:Candy Finnigan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

THE PRE-INTERVENTION MEETING

Once you’ve decided who is in, you’ll need to get together. And believe it or not, this can be a festive occasion. There is reason to feel good and excited. I know some of you will be scared. That’s okay. Let’s get to work.

First, pick a place where you have time and some space to gather. You can eat while you’re at it if you want. Grandma can bring a covered dish if she feels like it. (This is not, however, an occasion for cocktails.) Try to sit down in a circle, so everybody can see one another. Begin by sharing the reason you are all together and how you each feel. This is good because so much of your life has been about the lost one for so long, and so much of it bad—but not anymore. How do you feel? What are you afraid of? What are your hopes?

Next, let’s catch up on who knows what. Share any secrets or information that is new or important. You all need to understand, as much as possible, what is going on day to day with the lost one. We’re only as sick as our secrets. We are not just having an intervention on the lost one you know, we are having an intervention on our system, our feelings, and our fears. Once you have gotten all that out on the table, each person’s role will become clearer. One person may be able to recount things of which the others had no knowledge. Decide who will follow the lost one if they bolt, who will pack their bags, who will accompany them to treatment, who will bring the dip.

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