64 Walking Through an Addiction with Your Partner

Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

Society & Culture

5 • 39.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This month on Couple Things, we are going to talk about topics that highlight Mental Health Awareness Month. This week, we are talking about eating disorders, addiction, and walking through those things with a partner. Shawn talks about her story and struggles with her mental health and how she and Andrew walk through them together. Here are a few topics that we cover: Shawn's story A turning point Bringing an addiction into a relationship The day to day with an eating disorder Andrew and Shawn's first date When Shawn started to get help Understanding the core person that you're in a relationship with Shawn's view of mental health Trying to understand the addiction as the partner Is addiction nature vs nurture? Shawn facing it in the spotlight How gymnastics is judged Shawn's healing journey The first time Shawn told Andrew How you can walk with your partner through mental health struggles Asking for help How Shawn's addictions changed Athletes and mental illness Who should go to therapy? If you are struggling with anything or want to talk to a therapist, please find the help that you need. Here are a few places to start: Online Therapy with Betterhelp ▶ https://www.betterhelp.com/ Eating Disorder Helpline ▶ https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/help-support/contact-helpline More resources with To Write Love on Her Arms ▶ https://twloha.com/find-help/ You are loved. You have a purpose. Thank you for being here. If you haven’t yet, please rate Couple Things and subscribe to hear more. Follow us on Instagram to keep the conversation going at https://www.instagram.com/couplething... And if you have suggestions/recommendations for the show, send us your ideas in a video format – we might just choose yours! Email us at [email protected]. We're supported by the following companies that we love! Check them out below: Care/of ▶ We're excited to offer Couple Things, listeners, 50% off your first Care/of order. Simply go to https://wwwTakeCareOf.com and enter the code couplethings50. ButcherBox ▶ You can get the Essentials Bundle: that includes Chicken Breast, Pork Chops + Ground Beef free in the first box! Simply visit https://wwwButcherBox.com/couple to get started with Butcher Box today! FAN MAIL ADDRESS: Shawn and Andrew East 750 N San Vicente Blvd., East Tower, 11th Floor, Los Angles, CA 90069 Follow My Instagram ▶ http://www.instagram.com/ShawnJohnson... Like the Facebook page! ▶ http://www.facebook.com/ShawnJohnson... Follow My Twitter ▶ http://www.twitter.com/ShawnJohnson Snapchat! ▶ @ShawneyJ Follow AndrewsTwitter ▶ http://www.twitter.com/AndrewDEast Follow My Instagram ▶ http://www.instagram.com/AndrewDEast... Like the Facebook page! ▶ http://www.facebook.com/AndrewDEast Snapchat! ▶ @AndrewDEast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think the most important thing you can do is try to understand.
0:06.0	It was a very scary time for me to say, Andrew, like, you might think I'm this confident person, but I am not.
0:18.0	What's up everybody? Welcome back to Couple Things.
0:20.5	What's Sean in Andrew?
0:21.5	A podcast all about couples.
0:23.0	And the things they go through.
0:25.0	Today is our first episode of May.
0:28.0	That's right. And you know what's special about May, babe?
0:31.0	Mental Health Awareness Month.
0:33.5	Yes. And it was such an important topic that we thought we'd devote the next several episodes, including today's two mental health.
0:42.0	Yes.
0:42.5	And discussions around that.
0:44.0	We'll have a couple interviews, but today it's just Sean and I sitting down talking mostly about you.
0:50.0	Yes.
0:50.5	Yeah. One of the reasons why we thought this was so important is because within relationships,
0:55.0	your mental health kind of drives your entire relationship.
0:58.0	And I think when it comes to having a successful relationship, you have to know how to kind of navigate your way through mental health.
1:08.0	Yes.
1:08.5	And not that we have learned it, done it, and mastered it by any means, but we've gone through a lot of mental health things within our relationship, so we thought we would share.
1:18.0	Yeah. And we just wanted to share from personal experience how our struggles and triumphs with mental health
1:24.0	have affected our relationships.
1:25.5	Going to reiterate, we are not counselors.
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