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Every month Annie has a call with our path 365 members and answers their questions.

She tackles a wide range of topics from what to do with big emotions, what kinds of tips

and advice she has for addressing difficult situations, how to deal with cravings, and

so much more.

Listen in as she does some real life coaching for our path members.

What's the best way to approach whether or not I should tell my mom who is in a recovering

alcoholic about my own journey with becoming alcohol free?

So what I would say is that in the second half of the path there's so much work on the inner

work of why you're drinking to begin with.

And so for example, like the very critical family, the fear of judgment, the not knowing

how to relate to your mom and something that should be such a celebration, like all

of those are things that that work will really help you sort of unwind and untangle and

have kind of a new lease on how you might want to have a conversation with her.

I will tell you ahead of time that a pre-frame and a radically connected but radically differentiated

meaning you're going to be fully yourself, you're going to kind of tell her what's true

for you, but with a huge pre-frame, like I'm so happy what worked for you, worked for

you, I'm so blah, blah, like all of that stuff, like there's language we can like put

around you telling her your truth, it's like bookends, right, a big pre-frame of appreciation

and love and connection, a center of this is true for me, this is where I am and you know

to be honest, I don't want like really whatever you do or don't want, and then kind of a

bookend of much more love and appreciation and so there's language we can put around

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