Interventions With Love

01/30/2026

I’ve been invited to partner with Johnny’s Ambassadors, a national nonprofit dedicated to educating families, teens, and communities about the risks of today’s high-potency THC products, to offer a free educational webinar:

Reaching Resistant Youth: Family Systems Approaches to Early Intervention in Cannabis-Induced Psychosis

In this webinar, I’ll be sharing what I’m seeing in real families, what to look for earlier, and how parents and professionals can engage resistant youth through a family systems lens, especially during critical windows of stabilization, before things fall apart.

This free (use code FREE26) 60‑minute live webinar explores family‑based strategies for engaging youth who refuse support, focusing on safety, structure, and connection. (CE Credit for $39)

📅 April 17

⏰ 12:00–1:00 PM Eastern / 10:00–11:00 AM Mountain

💬 Q&A to follow

👉 Register here: https://johnnysambassadors.org/ja260417/

01/29/2026

More families are reaching out with the same concern: “My child doesn’t seem like themselves anymore.”

With today’s high-potency THC products, cannabis-induced psychosis is becoming more common than many people realize. What starts as anxiety, withdrawal, or paranoia can escalate quickly, leaving families scared and unsure how to help.

I wrote this blog to share what I’m seeing, what cannabis-induced psychosis can look like, and what supportive solutions can actually help. This is not about blame or panic. It’s about clarity, safety, and knowing when support matters.

If this resonates, you’re not alone.
Read more here:

Cannabis-induced psychosis is becoming more common with today’s high-potency THC products. Learn what families are seeing, how cannabis can impact mental health, and what supportive solutions can look like.

01/18/2026

Great dinner with teams from PACE Recovery Center, LLC., ASAP Cincinnati, and clinicians from The Wellness Place. Different programs. Different roles. A shared commitment to supporting families from multiple angles.

It was refreshing to step out of our individual lanes and sit at the same table, not as “programs,” but as people who care deeply about the family systems we work in every day.

Grateful for strong relationships, open conversations, and nights like this that remind me I’m not doing this work alone.

12/26/2025

The holidays can make gratitude feel complicated.
For many families, this season highlights what is still hard, unresolved, or uncertain.

If gratitude feels out of reach right now, that does not mean you are doing anything wrong. Sometimes the most honest form of gratitude is simply noticing what is a little steadier than it used to be, or acknowledging the effort it takes to keep showing up.

Read more in this new blog for families navigating recovery, grief, and fractured systems during the holidays:

Struggling to feel grateful this holiday season? Learn how grounded gratitude helps families honor both pain and progress while navigating recovery, loss, and healing.

12/24/2025

The holidays often look different in recovery.

Old traditions may no longer fit, and that can bring up both loss and opportunity. This new blog explores how creating new holiday traditions can support steadiness, connection, and meaning for individuals and families in recovery.

Read Creating New Holiday Traditions in Recovery here:
www.interventionswithlove.com/blog/creating-new-holiday-traditions-in-recovery

Creating new holiday traditions in recovery can support calm, connection, and alignment. A grounded guide to reshaping the season with intention and care.

12/23/2025

The holidays can be meaningful, but they can also stir emotions and old patterns for those in recovery and the families supporting them.

This new blog offers grounded, practical ways to stay steady through the season with structure, intention, and connection.

🌿 Read Navigating Holiday Triggers: Staying Strong in Recovery
www.interventionswithlove.com/blog/holding-steady-through-the-holidays

The holidays can stir old patterns and emotions for individuals and families in recovery. This guide offers calm, practical strategies to stay grounded, connected, and steady through the season.

11/23/2025

Today I had the privilege of joining Serenity Recovery Network’s Family Recovery Day. I led a session on, "Parallel Paths: Family Recovery, Boundaries, and Healing for All of Us,” and spent time sitting alongside families who, just like their loved ones, have hit points of not knowing what to do, what comes next, or how to show up in a healthier way.

What struck me most is how few programs include families in any meaningful, ongoing way. So much of this industry is built around the individual in treatment. Families are often left behind with the same tools they used to survive addiction, but no new tools for recovery. That gap can leave families stuck, reactive, and overwhelmed. And when a loved one comes home, the entire system falls back into the same patterns.

Serenity Recovery Network refuses to let that happen. With more than 20 years of experience and an abstinence-based, 12-step rooted model, they build recovery around the whole system: the person and the family. Their Family Program gives parents, spouses, and siblings the education and support they need to reconnect with their loved one in ways that are healthy, boundaried, and sustainable.

It was an honor to be part of today and to see firsthand how committed SRN is to making sure families aren’t an afterthought, but a central part of the process.

Families deserve this level of support. And when they have it, recovery becomes stronger for everyone involved.

11/20/2025

The holidays can be meaningful, but they can also stir emotions and old patterns for those in recovery and the families supporting them.

This new blog offers grounded, practical ways to stay steady through the season with structure, intention, and connection.

🌿 Read Navigating Holiday Triggers: Staying Strong in Recovery
https://www.interventionswithlove.com/blog/navigating-holiday-triggers-staying-strong-in-recovery

The holidays can stir old patterns and emotions for individuals and families in recovery. This guide offers calm, practical strategies to stay grounded, connected, and steady through the season.

11/09/2025

What a great trip out to Sabino Recovery in Tucson. Grateful for the hospitality, thoughtfulness, and time shared by Joy, Jaimee, Derek, and the entire team.

Such a beautiful environment for connection, restoration, and healing.

What stood out most was how integrated trauma informed care felt, from the setting itself to the way care is delivered. It was really good to see the program up close and learn more about the work being done.

11/01/2025

Love often makes us want to protect the people we care about from pain. But in recovery, rescuing can keep everyone stuck.
This week’s blog explores how allowing consequences, not punishment, can become one of the most loving things a family can do.

🌿 Read “Letting Consequences Do Their Job” here: www.interventionswithlove.com/blog/letting-consequences-do-their-job

Families often interrupt consequences out of fear. Learn how allowing natural outcomes, not punishment, helps recovery take root and brings peace back to the system.

10/31/2025

When someone you love finally enters treatment, it’s natural to hope the worst is behind you. But real recovery unfolds in layers, it takes time, consistency, and compassion.

This week’s blog looks at The Myth of Quick Fixes and how families can pace themselves for the long road of healing.

🌿 Read here: www.interventionswithlove.com/blog/the-myth-of-quick-fixes-why-sustainable-recovery-takes-time

Families often hope treatment or early sobriety will fix everything quickly. This piece explores why true recovery takes time, patience, and family healing.