Show Some Love: How to be a Friend to Someone in Recovery

You want to help, but you don’t know how. Do you talk to your loved one? Do you check up? Do you stand idly by? Or do you keep your distance until she gets her life in order?

Whether your loved one continues to make unhealthy choices or has decided to get help, recovery leader Daphne Tarango wants to help you. After years in recovery, Daphne has analyzed feedback from people in recovery and their loved ones. She shares what she gleaned in Show Some Love: How to Be a Friend to Someone in Recovery. The book offers insights to those whose loved ones are on a destructive path. Daphne helps you to understand what your loved one might be thinking and feeling that prompts her poor choices. She provides tips on how to assure your loved one of your love, despite her actions.

Show Some Love also provides tips on how to interact with your loved one after she has decided to get help. Daphne helps you understand what your loved one will experience through each stage of recovery: Looking up, Looking in, and Looking out. She offers guidelines on how to show love during those stages, as well as ways to pray for your loved one every step of the way.

Additionally, Daphne offers guidelines on how to show yourself some love as you travel the recovery journey with your loved one. Show Some Love can help you reduce well-meaning missteps. With what you learn from this book, you can be better equipped to help your loved one on the road to wholeness and freedom and, ultimately, to help your relationship grow closer.

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Daphne Tarango is a freelance writer who comforts hurting women with the comfort she has received from God. Daphne inspires women to take Biblical steps to personal growth and freedom. She also writes about her struggles with chronic illness and pain.

Daphne's work has appeared in Just Between Us, {in}courage (a division of DaySpring), Living Better 50+, The Gabriel, Inspired Women Magazine, Ruby for Women, Rest Ministries, and Mentoring Moments for Christian Women. Daphne contributed three chapters in the compilation Women of the Secret Place (Ambassador International, 2012). Her first book was the thankfulness journal Dragonflies, Ketchup, and Late-Night Phone Calls. It was followed by its Spanish-language version: Caballitos del Diablo, Salsa de Tomate Dulce, y Llamadas Telefónicas Tarde en la Noche.