Category Archives: Arc Fitness

Enabling – When help becomes unhelpful.

Enabling – When help becomes unhelpful.

Enable:
“To give (someone) the authority or means to do something; to make it possible for”.
Addiction not only affects the individual, it also causes ripple effects through the wider family unit. At times families are left trying to navigate the addiction merry-go-round trying their utmost to protect the person and eventually through frustration and exacerbation, protect themselves.
Fundamentally, most families want to help when a loved one is suffering from a drug or alcohol problem, however, sometimes that “help” becomes enabling.
Enabling comes in all different forms.

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The Road to Recovery – Gaz’s Story

The Road to Recovery – Gaz’s Story

It’s funny, I got unexpectedly nervous about writing this despite having done it countless times. Most people who know me now have met me at a time of my life where the following story can be hard to marry up. That’s a good thing, it’s shows that people CAN change; they CAN succeed and they CAN beat something that feels unbeatable to them.

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