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Family Recovery Coaching

As your BALM® Family Recovery Life coach, I will help you get your life back, and help you help your loved one get their life back too.

Some BALM® Family Recovery
Methodologies I coach along with a 1-year BALM® Comprehensive Family Recovery program:

    7 C’s

    • Contributing to your loved one’s recovery and not their disorder-substance, behavior, and/or mental health.
    • Connecting to your loved one on a deeper level than their disorder-substance, behavior, and/or mental health.
    • Communicating in a loving way
    • Knowing you always are at choice

      12 BALM® Principles

        • What we ‘can do’
        • Deepen learning
        • Shifting attitudes
        • Family members taking action
        • Healing relationships with self, others, and beyond
        • Be a Loving Mirror®, the journey and the destination.

      7 Steps to Be A Loving Mirror®, BALM®

      • Transformative step-by-step ‘how to’
      • Turning love into empowering actions
      • Centered on the 7 steps essentials-love, respect, facts, and tone

        7 C’s

        • Contributing to your loved one’s recovery and not their disorder-substance, behavior, and/or mental health.
        • Connecting to your loved one on a deeper level than their disorder-substance, behavior, and/or mental health.
        • Communicating in a loving way
        • Knowing you always are at choice

          12 BALM® Principles

            • What we ‘can do’
            • Deepen learning
            • Shifting attitudes
            • Family members taking action
            • Healing relationships with self, others, and beyond
            • Be a Loving Mirror®, the journey and the destination.

          12 BALM® Principles

            • What we ‘can do’
            • Deepen learning
            • Shifting attitudes
            • Family members taking action
            • Healing relationships with self, others, and beyond
            • Be a Loving Mirror®, the journey and the destination.

          7 Steps to Be A Loving Mirror®, BALM®

          • Transformative step-by-step ‘how to’
          • Turning love into empowering actions
          • Centered on the 7 steps essentials-love, respect, facts, and tone

            Be Your Loved One’s Best Chance at Recovery!

            Family Recovery Workshop

            12-week workshop: 12 Principles of BALM®, Be A Loving Mirror Method® of Family Recovery

              • How to support your loved one
              • Stages of change
              • Letting go of obsession
              • How to be your loved one’s best chance at recovery
              • Self-care
              • What it really means to be a loving person
              • Setting and sticking to boundaries
              • Get support
              • Healing relationship with that beyond our ego
              • Healing relationship with self
              • Healing relationships with others
              • Be A Loving Mirror® is the journey and the destination

            Be Your Own Best Chance at Success!

            BALM® Comprehensive Family Recovery Program

            BALM®, Be A Loving Mirror, has a 3-prong holistic approach:

            Education

              • 24/7 online support
              • Weekly interactive classes
              • Live interviews with experts, recovering persons, and recovering family members
              • 480+ recordings of courses and interviews
              • PowerPoint Lessons
              • Discussion
              • Q & A
              • 12 Principles E-Workbook
              • Additional 400+ reference materials
              • One full year of learning
              • Weekly newsletter
              • Blogs

            Transformation

              • In depth 8-week empowering Family Recovery course
              • Skilled guidance in scripting and practicing evidence based brief mini-interventions
              • PowerPoint Lessons
              • Discussion
              • Q & A
              • 7 Steps to BALM® E-Workbook
              • Demos
              • Guided step by step support
              • Breakout sessions give participants opportunities to practice
              • Feedback from coaches as you practice
              • Peer support weekly

            Support

              • Group coaching
              • Personal one on one coaching
              • Buddy calls between classes
              • Small group learning
              • Guided Journal workshop
              • Network of Support Resources
              • Tech support
              • Weekly emails for scheduled support groups, classes and interview

            Be Your Loved One’s Best Chance at Recovery!

            Life Coaching

            As your Life coach, I will provide private one on one professional coaching sessions with you.

            Some of my Life Coaching Methodologies:

            Partnership

            • Create a powerful partnership for your personal transformation
            • Design a vision, jointly, for your personal and professional life.

            Empowerment

            • Generate possibilities and foster learning
            • Accelerate performance and progress through thought-provoking and inspiring methods, maximizing potential

            Process

            • Facilitate self-discovery
            • Promoting wholeness and balance
            • Cultivate clarity, focus, and choice

            Support

            • Hold accountability
            • Champion for success

            Mind-Body Healing Workshops

            Colleen is fully trained and certified by Peggy Huddleston to facilitate the following workshops:

            • Prepare for Surgery and Heal Faster
            • Lessen Side Effects of Chemotherapy & Radiation
            • Reduce Anxiety, Headaches & Insomnia
            • Lessen Chronic Pain and Speed Healing

             Learn mind-body techniques to reduce stress, strengthen your immune system, reduce pain, and speed healing!

            summer family in park
            family on couch

            Colleen Bertolino

            Recovery Practices LLC

            978.335.6340

            colleen@recoverypractices.us

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