Enabling Addiction – Our Helping was Hurting

How much can you give to save your loved one’s life?  Will you give your money, your time, your prayers?  Will you even give yourself until there is nothing left of you?  Every family is enabling addiction in some way.  Kevin Lee, co-founder of Intervention Services speaks frankly on how his family continued to sacrifice everything, all in the name of love. And how it wasn’t until they learned how (their) “our helping was hurting” that the situation began to truly change.

Intervention 101 Our helping was hurting from David Lee on Vimeo.

Kevin Lee, co-founder of Intervention Services delivering a presentation on “Our Helping was Hurting” to a group a family members.

Often times, out of love, the families of the addicted want to do what they feel is best to help their loved one, but end up making matters worse by being manipulated by the addict and not by learning the necessary tools that help you not only help your loved one, but allows you to learn to take your life back.

Video Response Series

If you are in need of a detailed answer to a question you may have in regards to your loved one, you may contact us anytime and we may provide a video response for you.  All video responses, although publicly made, have been altered to adhere to the utmost in confidentiality and respect of the delicacy of your situation.

Understanding Enabling is to help families to understand Enabling in a different way then they have had it explained before.  A part of our Intervention Video Response Series, which answers questions emailed in from families in need of help, this has become one of our most popular.

 Reaching the Bottom is another in our Intervention Video Responses Series.  Does your loved one need to reach their bottom in order to change?  It is important for families to collectively understand that waiting for this mysterious event, this “bottom” that they have often been mistakenly informed of…often results in disastrous consequences.

More Intervention and Educational Presentations:

The following presentations are examples of the many public service presentations that we provide for schools, educators, treatment providers, churches, and social services. If you are in need of a workshop or presentation, please contact us for scheduling.

“Why Families Wait” is an educational presentation delivered for local families, police officers and educators to help people understand why the majority of families wait to intervene. Unfortunately, most families will never intervene, but instead will wait…often until the worst happens. David Lee, our Founder, explains why.

“The Rogue Elephant” is a presentation delivered by our Founder, David Lee, to the Cedar Lake Key Club during their annual “Night out in a box” benefit for the homeless where teenagers spend an evening living in a cardboard box to better understand the needs of the homeless.

“Interventions help the family” Kevin Lee is a co-owner of Intervention Services USA, who speaks about how interventions are not only for the addict but really helps the entire family. It will help the family learn, understand, and how to stand together. With these tools it will help with a longer lasting sobriety from the addiction.