Announcing my next book!!!
When You Love Someone in Recovery: A Hopeful Guide to Understanding Addiction is here (and why this one means the most)
I’ve been waiting almost 2 years to make this announcement!!! And it’s finally official.
Loving someone in addiction recovery can be messy and confusing.
You might carry guilt, anger, and a deep fear they’ll relapse or have a recurrence of use again.
You might walk on eggshells, wondering what to say or if you’re helping at all.
But what if your healing matters just as much as theirs?
In this compassionate guide, as an addiction recovery expert with lived experience on both sides (as a person in recovery and an affected loved one), I will walk alongside you to:
Release guilt and resentment
Set healthy boundaries without shame
Support your loved one without losing yourself
Understand what the recovery journey is all about
Find your own healing and purpose again
Rooted in personal experience and professional insight, this book walks you through what recovery is all about, not just for your loved one, but for you, too.
Inside you’ll find real stories from families who’ve been there, brain-based insights and practical research, simple exercises to help you process emotions, reclaim peace, and support your loved one.
You can’t control their recovery. But you can choose your own healing.
This book gives you the clarity, tools, and hope you need to support your loved one in addiction recovery, without losing yourself in the process.
“This book is a hopeful first step for anyone who loves someone struggling with addiction. So many families have been told that they should disconnect from their loved ones who struggle with addiction. It’s not true, and this book explains why. Families can participate in their loved one’s recovery in ways that improve their chances of success. What a gift! We need more books like this that give families tools to support their loved one’s success in recovery. This book helps families access what they need most...hope.”
- Christina Dent, Founder of End it For Good
“In When You Love Someone in Recovery, my friend Caroline Beidler brings together two worlds that too often stay apart: the lived grace of faith and the illuminating clarity of neuroscience. With compassion and scientific precision, she shows that recovery is not just about abstaining from something destructive, but about engaging the God-designed process of healing and renewal that happens in the mind, the brain, and in all of life. This is a hopeful, intelligent, and transformative book that will help families and communities see recovery not as a stigma, but as a miracle of restoration.”
- W. Lee Warren, MD, neurosurgeon, author of The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery, and host of The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast
“Are you ready to truly understand your loved one in recovery? This book is a compassionate, eye-opening guide that blends the latest neuroscience with heartfelt wisdom to help you see why your loved one feels stuck—and how to genuinely support their healing. A must-read for anyone who loves someone battling addiction and wants to walk beside them with grace, not frustration.”
- Christy Osborne, author of Love Life Sober
Stay tuned for more about how to show up and support our loved ones in the coming months. I’d also LOVE to hear from you when you pre-order and you will get some AMAZING gifts for supporting this book (pre-orders help authors like me tremendously).
Together with you in this journey,
Caroline
P.S. Folks who pre-order today will also get to join me for a live chat with my husband about our family recovery journey and how this book came to be, along with more freebies! Hold on to your receipt or order #s. More info coming soon!
Congratulations! I just ordered the Kindle version. (I no longer have room in my house for hard copies.) I can’t wait to read it. I wish it was coming out even sooner. My son just got out of a long court-ordered rehab and it sounds like exactly what I need.
This sounds like a beautiful book!! I look forward to reading it. Thank you, Caroline 💗🙏