HOW TO CHANGE SOMEONE YOU LOVE Four Steps to Help You Help Them

When your partner has issues that are life threatening, disruptive, or morbidly self-defeating, it’s important for you and other loved ones to become activists for change, rather than just waiting, nagging, or even enabling the problems to continue. Here a genuine healer shows you how to help. Similar to interventions with addicts, his plan involves assembling a coalition of friends and family; delivering honest observations and a loving request to change; describing hopes, fears, and reasons to change; and preparing to take care of yourself and disengage if necessary. Along with his conversational writing, the optimism and appealing cadence of the author’s speech gives this advice enormous credibility. His neighborly tone conveys comfort with his own recovery from addiction and a sincere belief in the strategies for change he offers in this hopeful audio. T.W. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine [Published: SEPTEMBER 2010]