There is no better place like home, No better help like family, No better love like family, family love Remains the greatest It Takes a Family offers a tried-and-true strategy for families and friends to move past the initial intervention and rebuild their bonds and connections as a family recovery team. Jennifer Daniels provides readers with a systematic plan that demonstrates how family members and friends can collaborate to overcome the challenges that many persons with addiction confront during their early recovery in clear-cut, kind language, and great connections. Family members learn about and address the difficulties of enabling, denying, and suffering via simple-to-follow tactics and activities, while also improving their communication skills and embracing the joy that comes from better and happier family relationships. Blended families confront particular difficulties, and regrettably, good intentions don't always cut it. All the traditional guidelines for family life shift when there are so many intricate ties involved.