31: How to Deal with Families

Soberful

Veronica Valli

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We all have a 'role' in our families. In this episode, we look at family dynamics. For many of us, when we are drinking that role is 'black sheep' of the family. Other family members may be 'rescuer,' or, 'scapegoat.' Every family has some dysfunction and unhealthy dynamics. Being conscious of our 'role' and how this impacts others when we get sober will help us manage the change that will occur in our family dynamics.

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0:00.0	I dreamt that you were twisting through seven suns of gold and the gypsy was insisting
0:10.1	that his story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning
0:19.1	that you might be a treasure.
0:22.4	I could touch but never hold.
0:27.7	Hi, everybody.
0:28.7	This is Veronica Valley.
0:29.9	And this is Chip Summers.
0:31.5	Welcome to the Soberfall podcast, where we get to talk about all kinds of things to do with recovery.
0:38.0	Now, you've been away, right?
0:39.6	Didn't you just celebrate two things?
0:41.8	Yes, I've managed to, because I'm very forgetful,
0:44.4	I made sure that my wedding anniversary
0:46.4	and my clean time anniversary were on the same day.
0:49.9	Are you serious?
0:51.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:51.6	Was that deliberate?
0:53.9	Almost, almost.
0:55.9	No, it wasn't deliberate in that.
0:57.6	I won't forget.
0:58.5	It just happened that we were...
0:59.7	It was handy.
1:00.5	It was handy, yeah.
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