18 Reasons To Be Grateful for Addiction

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

Society & Culture, Wifeofanalcoholic, Codependency, Relationships, Recovery, Alanon

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🗓️ 18 November 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

There are many blessings of loving someone who struggles with addiction. Yes, you read that correctly.

I know it feels dark and hopeless sometimes. But addiction can be a gateway: an opportunity to grow into the women we are meant to be.

Hear from 18 women in our community and how addiction has been a blessing in their lives. These women know exactly what you're going through. They understand, and we do too.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Thank you for being here with me. It is almost Thanksgiving and I know that for those of us in this community who love someone
0:28.6	suffering from this disease, most of us can raise our hands if asked the question, do you feel slightly depressed during the holidays?
0:40.0	Or do you feel anxious over the drinking or the drug use over the holidays?
0:47.0	I know for me, even though a part of me was really, really excited to celebrate with family and with my kids,
0:58.0	there was always the other part of me that was incredibly worried about what was going to go on, will I get embarrassed,
1:08.5	how can I help my husband stay sober. So it's a difficult time of year for us and so often I fall
1:19.9	into the trap and maybe some of you guys do this too where we check out
1:24.7	social media or we look at like the latest magazine I used to be a big fan of Martha Stewart, so I would look at her, which I don't know why. I still love her, but I never do anything out of her magazines. Like I'm not a crafty person. So did I subscribe and I still subscribe to her beautiful
1:46.5	magazine when all I do is look at the pictures and go oh I should do that I should bake that from
1:54.3	scratch I should sew that but I don't know how to sew and I don't do I don't have like a
2:00.7	glue gun or any of spring you know what are those I come see this is how
2:05.4	uncrafty I am they're not sprinkles they're sparkle at least whatever anyways
2:09.6	you guys point is where am I going with this? I am saying that it is very common for us to
2:17.2	compare our lives which sometimes can look really dysfunctional and we can be hot messes to the Martha Stewart's of the world,
2:27.2	to whatever lifestyle blogger, you know, Instagrammer, and go, my life, you know, will never be that good.
2:37.0	So here's what I want to do because for those of you that know me and know our community, I absolutely do not buy in the fact that addiction and discussing addiction needs to be depressing.
2:50.5	Like, no thank you, we have enough depressing stuff going on with our lives.
2:55.0	Let's look at all of the good things that are coming out of addiction.
3:00.0	And I want to lovingly remind you there are many good things that are going on in your life right now,
3:08.0	even though it might not feel like it.
3:11.0	So today's episode in celebration of Thanksgiving is about gratitude. Now we're
3:20.3	going to try something new and I'm so excited to do this with you guys.
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