LDS Family’s Role in Addiction Recovery

LDS Family Support in Recovery

At Lion’s Gate Recovery, we know just how difficult it is to suffer from substance abuse problems. Often times, the individual sufferer feels isolated and alone, with their families hurt, angry, and unsure what to do. We know that often the greatest challenges for families is how to act appropriately when a loved one has fallen victim to a substance abuse problem. Love for a suffering family member makes others want to do everything possible to help, but sometimes this love can become misguided, involuntarily aiding and supporting an addiction instead of helping to provide healing treatment.

Lion’s Gate Recovery is a family-focused, drug and alcohol rehabilitation center, offering LDS faith-based programs. Because we understand the key role that the family plays in recovery, we offer several programs that provide comfort and guidance for families. We understand that, while families cannot control or fix their loved one’s addiction, families have a lot of positive influence to offer. Through our years of experience in treating drug and alcohol addiction, we have seen how supportive families can help their loved ones heal from devastating addictions.

Unfortunately, by the time many sufferers make their way to our treatment center, their life has spiraled out of control. Sufferers of addictions to alcohol and drugs have burned bridges, derailed their career or schooling, damaged relationships, and their self-abuse has wreaked havoc on their physical, mental, and spiritual health. Being lost in the darkness can make some sufferers forget that their family loves them, and family members feel that their loved one is beyond reach. At Lion’s Gate Recovery, we have years of experience at re-integrating families, working side by side with loved ones as they support an addict in their recovery, while providing firm and comprehensive help for those suffering from the terrible disease of addiction.

No One Suffers Alone

Many addicts feel abandoned and alone. When the disease of addiction takes over your life, it can become a monster, blotting out everything else. Many sufferers truly feel like they are locked in a struggle with themselves, with no help or support from anyone. At Lion’s Gate Recovery, we see the larger truth, which is that no one suffers alone. We will help to change your perspective, introducing you to the many other Mormons who have turned to us for help. By relying on the teachings of the LDS church, Lion’s Gate Recovery will help you heal physically, mentally, and spiritually from the disease of addiction.

Our comprehensive treatment programs offer expert loving guidance from a team of professionals who will work with you.
Our dedicated staff of caring professionals will lead you towards greater physical, emotional, and spiritual healing by helping sufferers develop their relationship with our Heavenly Father. We will show you that Heavenly Father is all-powerful and all-knowing, and how He is waiting for you to turn to Him right now during your time of trouble. Together, we will show you how to re-experience joy and happiness again as you learn to embrace the strength and grace of the One who is far more powerful than any addiction.

Rehabilitation by the Power of Christ’s Atonement

At Lion’s Gate Recovery, our comprehensive Addiction Recovery Program incorporates gospel principles. Our 12-step program is based on the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Our first rule is to focus on the importance of Atonement. Just as Christ sacrificed his life to atone for our sins, we understand that atonement is the first step in healing from addiction. We firmly believe that wrapped in the arms of Christ’s healing power, individuals and families are restored to harmony, health, and wholeness. This is why we offer LDS Family Services Counseling, to provide support for families as their loved one goes through the process of recovery.

The Importance of Family in Healing

Our sincerest hope is that every individual suffering from the disease of addiction will choose Lion’s Gate Recovery as their rehabilitation partner. We offer comprehensive family resources that will assist the people who love you as you make the difficult journey towards sobriety. At Lion’s Gate Recovery, we know that families play a key role in the recovery process, and we will work with them to support and embrace you after you finish your residential treatment program. The old cliche about how “it takes a village” holds true. At Lion’s Gate Recovery know that every sufferer will need a strong support network to help build a life that is free from the destruction of addiction.

Intervention Services

Often, the first step on the path towards recovery is an intervention to encourage an addict to seek help. Our interventions are carefully-planned procedures that are focused on enveloping your loved one in the light of awareness. In conjunction with the family and others, our professional staff will gently approach an individual and outline why treatment is needed. Without being adversarial, our professional staff will explain in clear terms the hope and rehabilitation that our recovery program offers, followed by a loving invitation to join us to accept treatment. By working with us in a professional intervention, the family can help offer support and motivation for the individual to embrace rehabilitation and move towards a path of healing.

Parent Enhancement Program

Lion’s Gate Recovery offers a 10-week class for parents, providing techniques and instruction on how to lovingly but effectively interact with a sufferer who is undergoing rehabilitation treatment. Parents will learn faith-based methods on how to administer discipline, deal with strong emotions, discuss sensitive topics like sex and drugs, and even how to have fun with their children. Instead of feeling bewildered and confused about a loved one’s addiction, parents who complete the course will have effective tools at their disposal and know just how to handle challenging life choices made by their children.

Life Skills Training Class

Another program available to family members is our LDS Life Skills Training classes. Our experienced staff will teach participants skills on how to handle alcoholism, mental illness, behavioral issues, and substance abuse. Topics include creative thinking, decision making, problem solving, empathy, communication, self-awareness, and stress management.

Adults who learn to develop these skills will become more resourceful, confident, and independent. At Lion’s Gate Recovery, we have seen how our Life Skills courses effectively renew the mind, giving people the strength and power to deal with all of the challenges that life can bring.

Marriage and Family Counseling

Our LDS Family Services Counseling team of professionals is composed of compassionate, licensed therapists, who work with couples and families to:

– Learn to communicate better and more effectively

– Repair and heal from damaging and hurtful elements in relationships

– Strengthen and reinforce the positive qualities of relationships

We know that strong and happy marriages are the cornerstone of a healthy family. Our team of caring professionals has the experience and tools to mend broken hearts, recover from emotional wounds, and build strong, healthy relationships anew. Families that have been devastated by addiction and other afflictions can, with the power of Heavenly Father’s grace and love, step forward into the light and live a life of blessings and abundance.

Life Star Recovery Program

At Lion’s Gate Recovery, we offer a special program dedicated just for women who have partners who suffer from an addiction to pornography. This special form of addiction can be incredibly corrosive to relationships and families, which is why our Life Star program is uniquely tailored to healing from this terrible affliction. Our Life Star program is offered every Wednesday night, and is open to adult female family members. Participants will learn how to heal from the devastating effects of pornography addiction, and how to build a happy future for the entire family.

The Resources You Need to Achieve Lasting Recovery

At Lion’s Gate Recovery, you will find every level of support and treatment needed to achieve an abundant life of clean health, happy relationships, and lasting sobriety. Via our comprehensive programs of medical detoxification, social detoxification, spiritual guidance, and therapy, people suffering from the disease of addiction will become part of the Lion’s Gate Recovery family. With an understanding and embracing team of professionals and fellow sufferers at your side, and through the power of the Atonement and love of Jesus Christ, there is no addiction too powerful to overcome. Using the guidelines of the LDS church in conjunction with modern therapeutic techniques, the experienced staff of Lion’s Gate Recovery will walk the path of rehabilitation and recovery with you.

You CAN put addiction behind you, and step forward into a life of radiant abundance and sobriety. You CAN heal broken relationships. You CAN learn how to function in society and build a career and family. You CAN learn how to live a clean life without being crushed under the weight of an addiction. Our solemn promise to you is that you will be in Heavenly Father’s hands with Lion’s Gate Recovery by your side.