Changing Expectations vs. Changing Yourself
Love Over Addiction
Michelle Anderson
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Has the thought ever crossed your mind that you should change who you are just because things aren't going as planned with your loved one who suffers from addiction?
Something similar happened recently with my daughter (whose story you'll hear in this episode), and I'm so incredibly proud of her for staying true to herself. Instead, she's changing the expectations she had for this situation.
Tune in to hear how to discover who you truly are and why it's important to evaluate and change expectations you may have for your loved one rather than changing yourself.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Hey, how are you? I have quite a lot to share with you today. |
| 0:17.0 | Hey, how are ya? I have quite a lot to share with you today. |
| 0:25.0 | So I'm going to start out with a personal story and then we're going to do something fun. |
| 0:32.0 | We're going to do something fun. We're going to do a visualization, but you don't need to |
| 0:35.4 | close your eyes so you can listen and do it while you're driving. And then I'm going to |
| 0:40.4 | share another personal story that has absolutely nothing to do with addiction, |
| 0:45.4 | but I just thought it would make you guys laugh. |
| 0:48.0 | And as soon as it happened, I was like, I need to share this with you. |
| 0:51.8 | So let's get cozy and let's begin. I want the first |
| 0:56.6 | story I'm going to tell you is again personal it's about my daughter and I have |
| 1:01.3 | her permission to share this because she is light and joy and has the most amazing sense of humor and can completely laugh at herself. |
| 1:11.0 | Which I'm one of my favorite characteristics about her. |
| 1:16.2 | So we're applying, I say we're applying to colleges because I'm going to be real with you. First of all, applying to colleges, |
| 1:24.3 | the whole process is ridiculous. |
| 1:27.2 | For those of you out there, I've complained about this before |
| 1:29.5 | and I apologize because I'm sounding like a broken record, |
| 1:31.8 | but we have a lot of kids, we have to go through this many, many times. |
| 1:36.0 | And we're on kid, you know, number two in our home, it's going off to college, and it's just these applications and what you have to go through and how you have to like |
| 1:47.8 | craft a story about your kid and anyways I understand why colleges require that. I do I get it. It's just a lot of work and it is a we |
| 1:58.6 | thing because kids need help a lot of times when they're 17 years old and filling out |
| 2:06.2 | applications. So it's kind of become this like group effort in our family to help walk her through this process and |
| 2:16.2 | she selected her dream school and which is great, Hallelujah. |
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