Couple's Healing

From it's outset, the primary goal of Recovery Nation was to guide individuals seeking to transition their life from one of addiction to one of health. Before long, it became obvious that a second primary goal had to be pursued: to educate partners to health-based recovery and guide them through the typical aftermath of the discovery of such an addiction. Over the years, a third critical need has been identified: to guide the couple through the complexities of not just individual recovery and healing, but to integrate that healing into the relationship itself. Thus, couple's healing was born.

Three Starting Gates for Couple's Healing

There are three main 'starting gates' for those seeking couple's healing. They are:

1) Couples that enter the healing process with little to no experience in health-based recovery

 

2) Couples that enter the healing process having already begun an active health-based recovery

 

3) Couples that enter the healing process having already moved beyond the active recovery stage and are ready to integrate that knowledge and skill into the relationship itself

Couple's Tools

Health Based Recovery--The Couple's Guide

RN uses several progressive tools to assist couples in transitioning their relationship from one of individuality to one of partnership. And from one focused on addiction and recovery to one focused on health. The prerequisite tool for this couple's transition is the Couple's Guide. This comprehensive guide has everything couples will need to heal their relationship following the discovery of a sexual addiction within the relationship--no matter what starting gate they are entering.

Health-Based Recovery: The Couple's Guide

The Couple's Challenge

This month-long series of partnership activities focuses on strengthening the areas of your relationship that must survive the addiction and/or recovery process if permanent healing is to occur. Areas such as playfulness, reliability, trust, admiration, respect, equality. The goal of the Couple's Challenge is to help each individual within a relationship dervive meaning and value from that relationship--in its current state. To value the concept of working as a team to move you both further along in recovery, healing and health. All couples* are encouraged to participate.

*See more info for exceptions

Click here to learn more about the Couple's Challenge

SYMC (Save Your Marriage Central)

RN has partnered with Penny Tupy of SYMC to provide professional life coaching to those couples seeking guidance beyond what can be obtained here. Supplementing the individual work at RN, professional coaching through SYMC allows couples to obtain personal guidance in working through the more complex aspects of partnership. Issues such as conflict resolution, obstacles to intimacy, pseudo-recovery, life planning, boundary integration, value compromise and more often need personal attention than just can't be achieved through a workshop or guide. Professional couple's coaching through SYMC offers that individual attention.

Note: I have managed this site for over five years and have never sought such a coaching partnership. Penny is different. Having worked personally with many of her students over the years, I have seen first-hand the level of dedication and commitment she has to effecting real change within the couples she works with. Knowing that couples needing more intense relationship work (beyond addiction and recovery) have the option of supplementing their efforts with her guiding them is something I am very comfortable with. And for the record, this endorsement was not asked for by Penny, nor do I receive any money from her coaching. I just feel blessed to have someone couples can turn to who is as sincere as I am about what they do.

Click here to learn more about professional coaching from SYMC