Apr 27, 2015
“Intervention”
was presented on April 21, 2015; by Jeff Jay and Debra Jay;
internationally-known Intervention specialists, chemical dependency
therapists and trainers, and best-selling authors of Love First: A Family’s
Guide to Intervention, the newly-released
It Takes a Family, A Cooperative Approach to Lasting
Sobrietyand several other popular books.
Can
others help when a person with addiction doesn’t seem to want
help? Do family and friends have to wait for the person with
addiction to “hit bottom?” What if the person is LIVING on the
“bottom”? What if the “bottom” is death, or jail, or
insanity? Intervention can be a highly
effective technique for initiating the recovery process in
individuals suffering from chemical dependency. Through the
intervention process, people who care can learn how to use love and
honesty to break through the fear and denial that keeps a person
with addiction locked in the downward spiral of his/her disease,
and create a moment of clarity that allows a person with addiction
to accept help. The intervention process helps
“raise the bottom” to where the person with addiction is, rather
than waiting for him/her to become sicker and “hit bottom” on
his/her own. Jeff and Debra
Jay literally “wrote the book” on intervention when they
developed a love first intervention process that provides
family and friends with a powerful force for confronting addiction.
Unlike practitioners who espouse a “tough love” approach,
they found that love breaks through denial more
effectively than toughness. Intervention brings about a moment
of clarity that allows a person with addiction to accept
help. With love first and good planning, “tough
love” is often unnecessary. This program will describe how the
“Love First” process of Intervention can help chemically dependent
people find recovery. Key elements of the “Love First” intervention
model developed by Jeff and Debra Jay will be discussed. This
program by dynamic, highly experienced speakers will bring
PRACTICAL INFORMATION, HELP and HOPE to anyone who cares about a
chemically dependent person, and to anyone who wants to learn more
about the intervention process.
This program is part of the Dawn Farm Education Series,
a FREE, annual education series developed to provide accurate,
helpful, hopeful, practical, current information about chemical
dependency, recovery, family and related issues. The
Education Series is organized by Dawn Farm, a non-profit community
of programs providing a continuum of chemical dependency services.
For information, please see
http://www.dawnfarm.org/programs/education-series.