FAMILY RECOVERY RESOURCES, LLC
POMPANO BEACH, FLORIDA

The key to our success in helping families is that families have access to our entire program for one full year First, families attend and/or listen to classes that teach the 12 BALM Family Principles that provide the underpinnings of our program. These principles cover the major areas of recovery, creating a shift in attitude, behavior, and approach to relationship. Each principle includes a recorded lesson and almost every week of the year, families have the opportunity to attend live calls in which addiction and recovery experts, recovering persons, and recovering family members share their expertise and experience with listeners. There is time for Q and A, plus all calls are recorded for listening at the family members’ convenience. Often families report listening in the car, in bed at night, while cooking dinner, and even in the bathroom! Families are invited to listen to the 12 lessons (one per principle) at least once and then listen to as many live and recorded calls throughout the year as they find helpful. The BALM introduces families to a wide variety of perspectives and behavioral shifts to increase family effectiveness in the process of helping the family and the loved one recover from the ravages of addiction. To increase the sustainability of what is being learned, families are offered additional support calls. During these calls, family members bring specific situations that they are facing and we work on helping each other solve these challenges using the many tools, exercises, and skills taught in the BALM. As with all BALM calls, these are archived on the Family Recovery Academy website so that BALM members can deepen their learning and move their recovery forward. Individual one on one coaching is also available for families who wish to invest into an even further accelerated program. For information on one-on-one help with a BALM Coach, I’m Beverly Buncher, CEO and Lead Family Recovery Coach of Family Recovery Resources, where we help families blaze the trail to sobriety in their homes. As a person who has been in family recovery for 29 years, I know all too well the challenges facing families at each step of the addiction and recovery path. But I was a newlywed. I loved my husband. I didn’t want to leave. Though the old timers in Alanon were often staying in their marriages, a lot of the young people just weren’t. That’s not to say that there aren’t some good reasons to leave a marriage. But my question was whether family recovery could help me help my husband stay alive and give us the ability to succeed as a couple. My goal back then was to figure out if a part of Alanon’s message had gotten lost. So I combed the literature, got a sponsor who had been in Alanon for over 25 years and was happily married to the person she’d come to the program for, and kept looking for the secret I felt was tucked away in the program: how to get well, get them sober, and stay married. In that first year, I learned three things that helped form the basis of our family recovery and family life: my husband wasn’t bad, he was sick; I didn’t cause the problem. But I could make a difference by behaving differently. Over the years, I continued to practice what I’d learned – sometimes well and sometimes not so well, got additional help from coaches, therapists, and even a spiritual director, and decided to help others dealing with similar situations. It takes courage to say all of this out loud and that courage is what has brought me to create and share the programs I’ve developed as a Family Recovery Coach. That if you observe their behavior, and later when they are sober, calmly and lovingly, without malice or judgment, share your observations of the behavior and its consequences to others, you really can help them. We call that Be A Loving Mirror, and though it’s not easy to do on a regular basis, it can become a simple habit of mind, heart, and speech, once you learn how. And that’s only the beginning of what we teach that helps families help themselves and their loved ones. Applying recovery principles in one’s life, and knowing which ones to apply when, truly worked back then and works today, too. The work we do at FRR is designed to help family members first understand their role in the family disease of addiction, and then take action to get their own lives back, while learning to communicate in ways that encourage their loved one to get and stay sober. If you and your family face the challenges of loving a person who struggles with drinking, drugging, or other habits that are wreaking havoc on their or your life, we are here to help you. Bev is the go-to person for families looking to get their lives back while still helping their addicts get and stay in recovery. She’s combined her 35 years of self-development, 31 years in Alanon, 25 years as an educator, and seven years as a Professional Family Recovery Life Coach to create a package that will make a real difference in families’ lives. After a long career of helping clients, Alan retired into the BALM, where he makes himself available to treatment centers in need of family programs and families in need of extra support and advice. is a proud mother of two wonderful children. She came to Family Recovery Resources 2 years ago to find help for her son who struggles with a Substance Use Disorder, and has found hope and a life beyond. Her passion is to help families find the same hope she found, and get their lives back. At Family Recovery Resources, our mission is to help all families blaze the trail to recovery in their homes. All of our programs are based on the Be A Loving Mirror (BALM) Method of Family Recovery. BALM empowers families to transform their inner attitudes and their relationships with their loved ones. As a result, their struggling loved one has their BEST chance at recovery. We achieve our mission through two fold: 2. Through coaching and educating families determined to help themselves AND their loved ones have the BEST chance of recovery.