You're Waiting On You: A Guide For Families Struggling With Addiction and Relapse

Brook McKenzie

Sep 2025 · Foundry House Press

About this ebook

You’re Waiting on You is a breakthrough guide for families trapped in the exhausting cycle of addiction and relapse. Written by Brook McKenzie, a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor and CEO of the nation’s only long-term treatment center for chronic relapse, it delivers what families rarely receive: clarity, honesty, and permission to stop waiting.

Inside, readers will discover how to:

-Set boundaries that build trust and consistency

-Interrupt patterns that keep relapse alive

-Respond to crisis with a plan, not panic

-Disrupt behaviors that block real change

-Choose truth over fear—every single time

Practical, direct, and compassionate, this book equips families to stop reacting in fear and start leading with purpose. McKenzie draws on both professional expertise and hard-won personal insight to reveal what actually works when nothing else has.

Families can’t force their loved one’s recovery—but they can create the conditions for it. This guide shows the way.

For more information, please visit: https://www.brookmckenzie.com/

Ratings and reviews

I attended years of support groups and never understood exactly why and how I needed to change. Maybe I wasn't ready to hear it but this book could be my autobiography. Brook wrote my story with compassion and honesty and I can hold my head up and move forward. Thank you Brook. You're going to change the lives of everyone who reads it.

About the author

Brook McKenzie is a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor and CEO of the nation’s only authentic long-term treatment center for chronic relapse.

With more than a decade of experience, Brook has guided countless families through the emotional and spiritual chaos of addiction. A member of the American Counseling Association (ACA), the National Association for Alcoholism and Drug Counselors (NAADAC), and the Texas Association of Addiction Professionals (TAAP), he blends clinical expertise with personal experience to deliver both professional insight and hard-won clarity about what truly works. Known for his direct yet compassionate voice, Brook helps families make the hard but necessary changes that can redirect the entire course of recovery.

For more information, please visit: https://www.brookmckenzie.com/

Sam Davis has been performing addiction interventions for over a decade, helping thousands of families find a path to recovery. His personal journey through addiction—shaped by a family history of alcoholism and childhood trauma—nearly cost him everything, until his own family sought the guidance of a professional interventionist. That pivotal moment led him to treatment, lasting recovery, and ultimately his life’s purpose.

Today, Sam draws on both lived experience and professional training to guide families in setting boundaries, breaking cycles of enabling, and creating conditions for real change. Known for his honesty, compassion, and steady leadership, he believes family work is central to recovery.

Based in Virginia, Sam continues to live in freedom and purpose, enjoying time with his family, the outdoors, and the opportunity to help others discover their own “why.”