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When You Love Someone in Recovery: A New, Hope-Filled Guide for Families Navigating Addiction
The editorial staff of Recovery.com is comprised of addiction content experts. Our editors and medical reviewers have over a decade of cumulative experience in medical content editing and have reviewed thousands of pages for accuracy and relevance.
The editorial staff of Recovery.com is comprised of addiction content experts. Our editors and medical reviewers have over a decade of cumulative experience in medical content editing and have reviewed thousands of pages for accuracy and relevance.
Loving someone in recovery can be confusing and isolating. Families often live in the tension between fear and hope—wanting to help, but unsure how to do so without causing harm or losing themselves in the process.
In her forthcoming book, When You Love Someone in Recovery: A Hopeful Guide to Understanding Addiction, Recovery.com Managing Editor Caroline Beidler, MSW, offers families a compassionate and practical guide for navigating this complex terrain.
Releasing April 7, 2026, through HarperCollins/Nelson Books, When You Love Someone in Recovery challenges the idea that recovery is something only one person does. Instead, Beidler invites readers to view recovery as a relational process that can reshape families by rebuilding trust, strengthening resilience, and creating space for shared healing.
For Families Navigating Recovery Together
Many people know someone navigating addiction recovery. But not everyone understands what that journey can require, especially from the people who love them the most.
Drawing from her own sustained recovery and years of professional experience in the addiction and mental health space, Beidler challenges traditional narratives that center on emotional distance and “tough love.” In their place, she introduces a framework rooted in community, hope, service, and wellness, and gives families tools that are both empathetic and evidence-based.
When You Love Someone in Recovery addresses one of the most pressing questions families face: How can we support recovery without losing ourselves or each other?
Through real-life family stories and reflection, this book helps readers:
- Release guilt and resentment.
- Set healthy boundaries without shame.
- Support a loved one without losing yourself.
- Understand what the recovery journey is all about.
- Find your own healing and purpose again.
Rather than prescribing rigid rules, Beidler empowers families to shift from a place of despair and fear to a place of hope and understanding.
Recovery as Connection, Not a Finish Line
One of the book’s central themes is its redefinition of recovery itself.
Instead of treating recovery as a finish line marked solely by abstinence, Beidler reframes it as a process of rebuilding connection and purpose for individuals and families alike. This “beyond sobriety” approach recognizes that addiction impacts entire family systems, and that meaningful healing should do the same.
By positioning families as active partners in recovery, When You Love Someone in Recovery introduces concepts like family recovery planning and collaborative healing strategies that can help build trust through shared responsibility.
Meet the Author: Caroline Beidler, MSW
Caroline Beidler is an author, speaker, and Managing Editor of Recovery.com, where she combines her lived experience with research-driven insight to make addiction and mental health information accessible and human-centered.
As someone in long-term recovery herself, Beidler brings both personal empathy and professional expertise to her work. She is the founder of the Women’s Recovery Leadership Foundation and the host of the Circle of Chairs newsletter and podcast, which reaches thousands each week.
Through her writing, speaking, and advocacy, Beidler translates complex clinical concepts into language that resonates with families, meeting people where they are and helping them feel less alone.
She lives in eastern Tennessee with her husband and seven-year-old twins and enjoys hiking in the mountains and serving her community’s local recovery ministry.
Book Details
Title: When You Love Someone in Recovery: A Hopeful Guide to Understanding Addiction
Author: Caroline Beidler, MSW
Publisher: Nelson Books
Publication Date: April 7, 2026
Format: Paperback
Length: 240 pages
ISBN: 9781400253975
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Connect With Caroline
Website: https://www.carolinebeidler.com/ and https://whenyoulovesomeoneinrecovery.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carolinebeidler_official/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carolinebeidlermsw
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