You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Hey, how are you? How are you doing?

Does this not feel nuts? And by this I mean the world we are living in.

Things are starting to get

sort of back to normal. I guess the kids are in school

restaurants around here bars are opening the debates are happening. Ugh, it just feels scary, uncertain, crazy, like we're living in a twilight zone.

I don't know, I just, I for one am coping and handling this by keeping my life

really small. Like I'm only hanging out with a very small select group of

people, mostly my family. I'm only allowing my TV. my I'm only looking at certain things on my phone. I am not looking at the news. I am not

joining group large groups right now. I am like knitting my own little cocoon because my cocoon feels safer than being out in the world right now.

And I like safe and I like cozy and that's what I find very nurturing but for

those of you that love someone suffering from addiction I completely

understand that your cocoon can feel really scary sometimes, really

unpredictable because home isn't always a safe place for you.

It can be incredibly painful to be staying at home

with your loved one all the time.

Their issues are right in your face and it's hard to get away.

So maybe venturing out of your cocoon is healing for you. Maybe getting some fresh air and getting a new

change of scenery is what's going to help you make it through. That's okay.

So, this last week I went to my husband's hockey game.

So, one of my sons is now very much into hockey and he plays three or four times a week and they have an adult league and my

husband is from Minnesota so he grew up playing hockey and I'm Canadian so I grew up going to Toronto Maple Leaf

Games so we both love it we love the sport so I said Brian you know join join

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