BALM: The Loving Path to Family Recovery

Gives a great perspective on addiction and provides a path for dealing with many difficulties in life.

This book along with the recovery program provides a pathway forward. It has saved me and had a positive impact on our family. We are moving in the direction of love while knowing how important recovery is. It was the best decision I made to read this book and join the Balm community. So grateful to Beverly Buncher

There is a lot of valuable info here - disbursed in a sales campaign for the online program. At some point, I was really turned off by being continually urged to join the program. I eventually might join.....again, there is really good info here.

This book is an alternative to the mob of people who will encourage you to "run, don't walk" away from an addict that you love. It teaches you to reflect what you see back to the addict and to love them through it without enabling them. It has helped me a great deal.

As a Master Certified Coach, and Director of Coach Training at the BALM Institute, I have appreciated the privilege of witnessing the transformational power of the BALM approach for families living with loved ones suffering with addiction issues, as well as for the coaches applying these principles in their coaching and their everyday lives. Beverly Buncher is the catalyst of a movement for healing. This book provides inspiring stories and step by step practical strategies, principles, and tools. She tells it straight with her vulnerability and transparency. She walks the talk. In the past three years I have witnessed her apply the BALM approach in her personal life, her professional life, and in her relationships, including in her marriage. The fundamental healing BALM for every issue has been this path of being a loving mirror.Let this book be your call to action. The time for CHANGE is NOW.

When faced with the challenges of addiction, family members simply want to do do something to help: they want to help their loved one find recovery; they want to restore peace in their homes; they want to stop crying and get a good night's sleep. They, don't however, know how. This book teaches us how to stay connected to the people we love despite their behavior while at the same time schooling us in how to see clearly and behave lovingly so that relationships and environments are peaceful and individuals are inspired to be their " best self." What I have learned has positively impacted every relationship in my life, whether substance abuse exists or not.

This book lends clear, step by step, practices of how to help your loved one and yourself be restored to living a healthy, sane, peaceful and fulfilled life. These steps and practices undoubtedly illuminate the 'Loving Path to Family Recovery'. It is truly transformational. Bev's Be A Loving Mirror (BALM) method is the missing piece of the puzzle to family recovery. I would recommend anyone to read this, as Bev says, it only takes 'The Power of One'.

One of the most important books I’ve read on family recovery. A must for a family that is going through the heartbreak of having a loved one with substance use disorder.