Free 8-Week Family Recovery Course Offered to Help Families Impacted by Addiction

WILLIAMSPORT – West Branch Drug & Alcohol Abuse Commission is offering a FREE 8 week in-person transformational course for residents of Lycoming and Clinton County affected by another’s substance use/addiction.

The course will be taught by BALM Family Recovery Life Coach, Stacey Karchner. BALM evolved around the fact that those with substance use disorders are human beings and deserving of love just as any other person is deserving of. The role of the family is crucial.

Research shows when the family gets well, the loved one has a much better chance at getting and staying well. The brains of those with addiction are hijacked by a drug (believing it is needed to survive) and in turn the family’s brains are hijacked into believing they can control or fix, and they become obsessed with the outcome.

Most family members are at their wits end and do not know what to do, and that is where Stacey and the BALM course come in to help. The family needs just as much, if not more recovery than the loved one.

Because of the profound effect the BALM had on Stacey’s journey, she took intense training to become a BALM Family Recovery Life Coach and help other families get to the BALM sooner than she got to it. The course Stacey will be teaching is a component of the year BALM program and consists of 12 lessons. Lessons include topics such as The Crucial Role of The Family, Boundaries and Leverage, Motivational Interviewing, Enabling vs Helping, Mindfulness and Responding vs Reacting.

Family members find a new perspective and learn all new ways of acting, being and speaking without the anger and judgement, becoming the chief supporter rather than the obstacle.

The free course will be held from 5:45-8pm every Thursday at the West Branch D&A office, 213 W Fourth St, Wmspt, PA. Enroll by emailing skarchner9@gmail.com or call 814-360-7590 and begin to make a difference.