The Ultimate Journey to Peace for Family Members of Loved Ones Struggling with Addiction
A Path to Love
A deep transformative experience in community with others interested in peace. Drop in when you can to shine the light of awareness and compassion as we move from worry, guilt, anger to truth, clarity, calm, connection, and love.
Love Wins Here
The Ultimate Journey from Fear to Peace for Family Members of Loved Ones Struggling with Addiction
A Path to Love
A deep transformative experience in community with others interested in peace. Drop in when you can to shine the light of awareness and compassion as we move from worry, guilt, anger to truth, clarity, calm, connection, and love.
Love Wins Here
Re-Claim Your Peace
There are so many thoughts that, when believed, will take you far away from peace. Thoughts like:
"My loved one's future is limited, destroyed".
"I will never be happy until they're better."
"I did something wrong. I failed."
What you think and believe has a direct impact on how you see the world, your life, and relationships. That stress can also present an opportunity to transform how you perceive any and all circumstances by questioning your thoughts and tapping into your own inner wisdom so that it guides you to the kind of truth that sets you free, where the old beliefs let go of you.
This happens with a simple and profound process called The Work of Byron Katie. Since 2010, it's been a direct path to clarity, peace, and the aligned choices that sustain my well-being. I used to think and feel like a victim of life, my loved one's addiction, of depression, cancer, relationship conflict. With The Work as a powerful go-to in my healing treasure box, I know how to get un-stuck and come back to life and love. And it works! Doing the Work has brought me peace through the most stressful circumstances, calming any and all thoughts, and I've seen it happen for hundreds more.
Healing is very possible and it happens when you no longer avoid painful thoughts and emotions. This is where deep healing truly begins. This is where The Work can support your healing.
When doing The Work, some benefits can include:
a greater sense of inner peace
being less reactive and more responsive
improved communication
improved relationships
less tension in your body
more resilience to meet life's circumstances as they are
more compassion
more gratitude
more acceptance
less intensity and frequency of conflict
more energy
Stay connected to yourself and your heart
no mater what life brings.
For a more detailed description of The Work, please follow this link:
Walk A Path to Love
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"The Work is a way to end confusion and experience inner peace, even in a world of apparent chaos."
“The power of The Work is not in eliminating thoughts. Its power lies in the watching and investigation.
Notice thoughts, investigate them, and come to know for yourself that meeting them with understanding can be the end of internal war, which in turn is the end of all war.”
~ Byron Katie
A Path to Love
Because peace is possible even when your loved one is struggling
1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month
(even if there are 5 weeks in the month, it's still twice a month)
2:00 - 3:00 pm Pacific
We welcome all thoughts and emotions with gentle care
We identify the stories that keep you stuck in pain
We meet your experiences with curiosity and compassion
We shine light into the darkness meeting it with the light of loving awareness
You'll know how to transform your fear (worry, guilt, anger) into peace
You'll be supported and inspired by group wisdom
You'll see the innocence in you and your loved one, even when it's hard
You'll find inspiration in embracing your fear while using it as a path to unconditional love
We welcome all thoughts and emotions with gentle care
We identify the stories that keep you stuck in pain
We meet your experiences with curiosity and compassion
We shine light into the darkness meeting it with the light of loving awareness
You'll know how to transform your fear (worry, guilt, anger) into peace
You'll be supported and inspired by group wisdom
You'll see the innocence in you and your loved one, even when it's hard
You'll find inspiration in embracing your fear while using it as a path to unconditional love
With Donation or Free
Suggested $10
Donations can be made to:
Zelle (preferred): [email protected]
Venmo: @JoanneRichards3
PayPal: paypal.me/joannerichards3
No one is turned away even if you don't donate. You are welcome any time.
A Path to Love and two additional monthly inquiry sessions are included for anyone currently in a program with Joanne.
This is a drop-in so you're welcome to come whenever you'd like.
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Why Join Now?
The longer you wait is the longer fear makes hard things even more complicated.
Peace doesn't arrive after your loved one changes.
Peace starts and continues with you.
Give it to you, and you give it to your loved one too.
How much more time do you have to remain in confusion and pain?
Yes to A Path to Love
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Welcome, I'm Joanne
Hello to you, my fellow courageous family member. For over 20 years as a Licensed Therapist specializing in Family Recovery, I’ve helped hundreds of families go from just surviving their loved one's addiction to becoming the safe, peaceful, supportive family member their loved one needs and the one they want to be. Because I’ve walked this journey, I know how exhausting it can be, how family can replay every conversation, worry as their loved one slowly slips away, and feel guilty that they got angry or think they did something to make it worse. I help families relieve the many fears that are part of this journey, restore connection, communicate to inspire, and bring calm to the chaos.
Fear is the number one contributing factor that causes so many preventable problems. That's why I'm passionate about supporting families through the hard stuff with expert coaching, meaningful discussion with real life application, with do-able skill building in a safe, supportive, and understanding space. Together, we make the hard easier. Love wins here!
Have questions?
How do I know it will work for me?
Maybe you've tried a variety of support groups and methods to take care of your worry, fears, and lots of the emotions that are part of the struggles of loving your child and trying to help them. A Path to Love is a proven mindfulness based program for the family member who is willing to move from fear and worry into clarity and peace. The program is for family members with an open mind and open heart to seek and find what works for you so that you can advocate for yourself, your needs, your loved one, change, and love in action. It is because of this shared intention that we empower our individual and collective energy. Joanne facilitates individuals and groups to find what is true for them, what is doable and what is needed to support the doing. The power of this "work" is your inner wisdom guides you all the way. In all courses with Hearts At Work and Joanne, you are fully supported to find your inner wisdom. Love helps you live it.
What is my time investment and how long does the program last?
Sessions are 60 minutes. A Path to Love meets the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month. You're highly encouraged to attend whenever possible as healing develops with continuity and consistency. Having the support and shared wisdom of other members in A Path to Love can supercharge your insights and self-direction.
How is coaching different from therapy?
There are many paths to healing, and any that feel right for you are important. Go for it. Coaching and therapy are compatible and compliment each other. Coaching is designed to identify changes to make in the present and how to move forward to realize those changes. Coaching doesn't diagnose or analyze. It includes asking powerful questions to guide you to your answers. It is a partnership, co-creating opportunities for you to be inspired, find your inner motivation, and be empowered to create solutions and action plans. Coaching also includes acknowledging all parts of you with acceptance and moving forward, maximizing your strengths, wisdom, and resources.
How will this help my loved one?
You are made up of energy. If your energy is overwhelmed by fear - worry, guilt, anger, etc that is what gets projected into the world. You say yes, when you want to say no, then move into more tough emotions and fear. Fear has an energy, it makes things harder. Love has an energy that is much higher, it makes things kinder. We will have fear, we face big challenges. Ok, that's the reality of it, and the reality is that we can help ourselves through the struggles to transform fear to love. Or we stay stuck. I don't know anyone's timing or path, what you should or shouldn't do. I trust you will know if, when, and how to help yourself. And I know that when we heal, we heal relationships and can help in more helpful ways , from a place of love, not fear. And it takes some time and effort. At the very least, it helps energetically. Help yourself in healing and learning skillful loving, and that bumps up your help even more. A Path to Love is designed to help you get clarity to know for yourself what is help-full from a place of love, and what might not be so helpful because it comes from desperation and fear. Love is your power, not fear.
What is The Work of Byron Katie?
Please link to The Work of Byron Katie page for more details. Thank you. Here's the link: https://www.joannerichards.life/the-work
A Path to Love is a community of family members loving someone through an addiction. In A Path to Love, we do The Work of Byron Katie, a process of questioning thoughts, finding your own inner wisdom, and letting that insight guide you to clarity, peace, and unconditional love.
This is a drop-in community. Deep healing and transformation can be experienced the more you attend and do The Work. Healing is a practice that benefits you and ripples into the world.
This is not therapy or crisis intervention. No online discussion should be used to replace therapy. If in crisis, please seek crisis intervention or 988 if you or another is having thoughts of suicide.
© 2026 Hearts At Work LLC.
© 2026 Hearts At Work LLC.