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Family & Friends Support Hour

Research shows that when the family gets help, the struggling loved one has a much greater chance of achieving and maintaining recovery.

This group meeting will happen every first Thursday of the month via Zoom and is free to all who would like to join. Each meeting will begin with a topic suggestion and/or a guest speaker.

These meetings are for you. The goal is to support you at the moment and provide tools and inspiration that you can take with you. 

You do not have to share on the topic. Share whatever you need to at the time of the meeting or come as a quiet observer and collector of hope and inspiration.

 Join us on the First Thursday each month at 6:30 pm ET

 

Be Your Loved One’s Best Chance at Recovery!

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!

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            Rachel Pezzuto

            President, Recovery Journey LLC

            Colleen Bertolino

            Recovery Practices LLC

            978.335.6340

            colleen@recoverypracticesllc.com

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