Supporting Someone in Recovery | Caroline Beidler

In this episode, Rebekah Lyons has the opportunity to sit down with author, speaker, and recovery expert Caroline Beidler to dive into what it looks like to show up for someone you love while they go through recovery.With today’s growing mental health crisis, almost all of us know and love someone walking through some form of recovery. Despite this, there are limited resources for their friends and family members to know how best to show up. Through her own recovery journey, and through walking with others, Caroline saw this gap, which led to her newly released book, When You Love Someone in Recovery: A Hopeful Guide to Understanding Addiction. In this episode, Rebekah and Caroline share their own journeys with recovery, as well as valuable insight into how best to support the people we love. Whether you're loving someone actively struggling or walking alongside them years into recovery, this conversation offers a practical, faith-rooted way to move from confusion and walking on eggshells toward real, sustainable support.In this episode, you'll hear:

• Caroline's Story, From the Basement Up: How a childhood shaped by trauma and addiction led Caroline to her own recovery.
• The Recovery Revival: Why the shame that once kept recovery hidden in church basements is lifting, and how more churches and believers are bringing these stories into the light.
• Understanding, Not Fear: Why addiction is a spiritual, physical, and human condition, and how reframing it that way helps loved ones show up with compassion instead of judgment.
• The Prodigal Son and the Posture of Support: What the father's response in Luke 15 teaches us about showing up for a loved one before they've "got it together.”
• Forgiveness as a Holy Intervention: Why unresolved grief and trauma so often sit underneath addiction, and how Caroline learned that forgiveness — offered and received — is essential, supernatural, and rarely a solo act.
• Loving Well Without Rescuing: Practical wisdom for parents and loved ones on setting boundaries, having honest conversations, and showing up in small, consistent ways instead of trying to fix or control the outcome.

Resources:

• Pre-Order Gabe's new book: The Collapse is Here. Get access to the preface and first chapter TODAY by completing this form.
• Buy Caroline's book: When You Love Someone in Recovery: A Hopeful Guide to Understanding Addiction
• Caroline's website: carolinebeidler.com
• Follow Caroline on Instagram: @carolinebeidler_official
• Subscribe to Caroline's Substack, Circle of Chairs: carolinebeidler.substack.com
• Get The Fight for Us book and curriculum: The Fight For Us
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