Connection

This workshop will help you have breakthroughs in your relationship that lead to greater connection, even amid the strain recovery can place on a couple. Whether you are newly in recovery or have been walking this path together for years, you will get the skills to build and maintain connection, one that can hold steady through the work of recovery.

Self-Discovery

Recognize your defenses, including the ones that formed around addiction, codependency, or fear. Learn how to achieve an intimate relationship with your partner. Begin to drop the barriers that restrict growth, change, and recovery.

Partner Discovery

Recognize your partner’s fears and wounds, including how addiction and recovery have shaped them. Learn how to have greater compassion for your partner, and restore connection based on empathy and empowerment rather than blame or resentment.

New Methods of Communication

Learn effective methods to change the negative patterns that have evolved, including the cycles of conflict, distancing, or control that so often accompany addiction. Start to channel the energy from arguments into stability, safety, and trust.

Accepting the Unconscious Forces of Attraction

Recognize the traits and characteristics that brought you together, and how they may have become entangled with old wounds, coping patterns, or the roles each of you took on during active addiction. Discover how they became sources of conflict, and learn to reframe them in the context of your shared recovery.

Co-Creating a New Love Relationship

Work towards the creation of a new vision for the relationship, one that holds space for Your Recovery, My Recovery, and Our Recovery all at once. Discover what is possible when the relationship becomes both a source of healing and a place of safety.