Nar-Anon Family Groups

I remember when my brother was, he was on and off the street for a while during his active addiction.

And during this time, my mom and I were going to Naranon meetings.

And a lot of the culture and the preaching is around, you know, quote, letting them hit their rock bottom, like not helping them.

And I really fed into the narrative of he has to feel the worst possible consequence for him to be able to make a change.

They had no idea.

They didn't know about Al-Anon or Nar-Anon or whatever.

They probably thought, no, they had no idea.

They probably thought that they were helping in some way when, whenever they would give me money, you know? But there's no way they didn't know what it was going toward.

I don't care if it's Al-Anon.

I don't care if it's Nar-Anon.

I don't care if it's Celebrate Recovery.

I do care if it's IOC because I think it's the best.

Brandy, I don't know what your personal recovery is looking like right now.

I'm glad you're on here, but I would highly, highly suggest that you keep coming to these meetings and also maybe look into some in-person recovery meetings for families, whether that be Al-Anon or Nar-Anon or or pals or whatever it is.

And maybe even book a session.

Another thing that, that my, my mind goes to is, do we have a plan that we have offered your son? And I don't know, maybe you do, maybe you've done a session already, but I think that that would be huge for you to have a clear plan and an offer of help for your son the next time that he calls.

It was more just like I wasn't mentally well.

And so I'd been to Naranon meetings and AA.

And so when this was going on with Jodi, I was like, oh, Al-Anon.

I'm going to go to an Al-Anon meeting.

What is that? That is like, it's AA, but it's for people who love somebody.

Okay, gotcha.

Naranon is for people if you love someone who has a narcotic addiction.

And Al-Anon is if you love someone who has an alcohol addiction.