When You Love Someone in Recovery
A Hopeful Guide to Understanding Addiction
By Caroline Beidler, MSW
Find answers to your toughest questions about addiction and learn how to support your loved one’s recovery.
You can’t control their recovery. But you can choose your own healing.
Let this book show you how.
In this compassionate guide, addiction recovery expert Caroline Beidler helps you:
- Release guilt and resentment
- Set healthy boundaries without shame
- Support your loved one without losing yourself
- Understand what the recovery journey is all about
- Find your own healing and purpose again
Rooted in personal experience and professional insight, this book is for family members and loved ones impacted by addiction.
Inside you’ll find real stories from families who’ve been there, brain-based insights and practical research, and simple exercises to help you process emotions, reclaim peace, and support your loved one.
What Others Are Saying
“Are you ready to truly understand your loved one in recovery?
This book is a compassionate, eye-opening guide that blends the latest neuroscience with heartfelt wisdom to help you see why your loved one feels stuck—and how to genuinely support their healing. A must-read for anyone who loves someone battling addiction and wants to walk beside them with grace, not frustration.”
Christy Osborne
Author of Love Life Sober
“In When You Love Someone in Recovery, my friend Caroline Beidler brings together two worlds that too often stay apart: the lived grace of faith and the illuminating clarity of neuroscience. With compassion and scientific precision, she shows that recovery is not just about abstaining from something destructive, but about engaging the God-designed process of healing and renewal that happens in the mind, the brain, and in all of life. This is a hopeful, intelligent, and transformative book that will help families and communities see recovery not as a stigma, but as a miracle of restoration.”
W. Lee Warren, MD
Neurosurgeon, author of The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery, and host of The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast
“This book is a hopeful first step for anyone who loves someone struggling with addiction. So many families have been told that they should disconnect from their loved ones who struggle with addiction. It’s not true, and this book explains why. Families can participate in their loved one’s recovery in ways that improve their chances of success. What a gift! We need more books like this that give families tools to support their loved one’s success in recovery. This book helps families access what they need most…hope.”
Christina Dent
Founder of End it For Good and author of Curious
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Author, speaker, and addiction recovery expert Caroline Beidler offers friends and family members the gift of being able to understand the recovery lifestyle — a way of life that goes beyond anonymous meetings in church basements and fosters a sense of well-being, healthy coping strategies, discovering new passions, and for some, nurturing a deep personal faith.
About Caroline Beidler
Caroline Beidler (BYE-d-ler), MSW, is an author, speaker, and the managing editor of Recovery.com, an online resource that combines independent research with expert guidance on addiction and mental health treatment.
Her own lived experience in addiction, mental health, and trauma recovery inspires her to help other others find recovery in all its varying forms. In four short years she has built a global network of recovery supporters through her storytelling platform and accompanying newsletter, Circle of Chairs, which reaches thousands weekly.
She is a creative visionary, founding the Women’s Recovery Leadership Foundation which equips women in recovery to grow their impact, lead, and serve in their local communities. Her writing is described as funny, gritty, relatable, and insightful. Caroline lives in Eastern Tennessee with her husband and seven-year-old twins where she enjoys hiking in the mountains and building up and serving her community’s local recovery ministry.
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When You Love Someone in Recovery
When You Love Someone in Recovery is a call to both action and compassion and includes reflection exercises, real-life stories from people thriving in recovery, and powerful evidence-based research on the body and brain. You will come away with renewed hope and energy for walking alongside your loved ones in or seeking recovery.