Today's media offers detailed coverage of "the epidemic," but offers little insight into a healing process for family members impacted by a loved one's substance use disorder. Learning to Love Differently, a healing pathway for families of addicts, guides families through that rocky landscape. It offers:
 

• definition of addiction and codependency minus shame and blame
   

• clear and simple look at how complex love becomes when addiction enters
   

• personal recovery stories from author, addicts and other recovering family members
   

• tools for self-reflection at end of each chapter
   

• name for family pain and strategies to change family dynamics