Episode 164: #TBT: Al-Anon, Addiction and Divorce with Dr. Elizabeth Cohen
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
When you're living with or divorcing a partner who has an active addiction, you may find yourself acting out different behaviors including the need to control every situation. You may become (or already be!) codependent, and you focus on their healing instead of your own. When you finally take the focus off of them and towards yourself you can begin to see light at the end of what may be a very dark tunnel.
Show Highlights
- When women share themselves openly and honestly, the world begins to split open (9:21)
- Focusing on your growth and healing is how we change our circumstances (11:06)
- Sublimating your own needs for someone else (23:00)
- Breaking the cycle of codependency (24:15)
- The core issue about a person abusing any substance is the difficulty sitting with emotions (34:41)
- A partner should never be responsible for healing the other (38:36)
- Some advice for those who are living with an active addict (47:33)
Learn More About Dr. Cohen: Dr. Cohen is the CEO and founder of the online divorce course and membership Afterglow: The Light at the Other Side of Divorce. This 14 week course teaches women how to heal, grow and thrive after divorce no matter how difficult the process has been. Dr. Cohen offers a monthly membership program to provide 1:1 coaching, expert support from divorce professionals and an engaged community of like-minded people. Dr. Cohen received her PhD in clinical psychology from Boston University. She was the recipient of the prestigious American Psychological Foundation Research Award for her doctoral research. She has been featured on the Tamron Hall Show, the Wall Street Journal, NBC News, Women's Health, Huff Post, Thrive Global, Daily Beast and Good Housekeeping. Dr. Cohen is a weekly contributor to Psychology Today with her "Divorce Course" column.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate |
| 0:22.8 | some of the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. |
| 0:28.5 | I've been to hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side |
| 0:34.2 | of this process with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:42.2 | Hey everyone. Welcome back. So today I am actually rerunning an old episode for a variety of |
| 0:51.7 | reasons, not the least of which, that it's a fucking great episode. |
| 0:56.8 | And I think it needs to be resurfaced. |
| 0:59.5 | So I'm rerunning my episode from July of 2020 with Dr. Elizabeth Cohen, my dear friend, |
| 1:09.0 | all about Al-Anon, addiction, recovery, and divorce. |
| 1:14.5 | So enjoy. |
| 1:17.1 | But before I give you this episode, I just wanted to remind you once again that my all-new, fully revised program, should I stay or should I go is ready it is out in the world |
| 1:32.0 | the if you missed last week's episode I'm so sorry there was a sale on I kind of blasted it |
| 1:40.8 | everywhere so the sale time is over and it is now full price. |
| 1:47.2 | The program is completely revised from start to finish. It's pretty great. And you can find it |
| 1:57.3 | on my website, kateanthony.com. |
| 2:02.9 | And just click on should I stay. |
| 2:04.7 | And it'll take you to all the information. |
| 2:07.5 | And it's also linked in the show notes. So wherever you're listening to this, you should be able to find it quite easily. |
| 2:11.9 | So without further ado, here is my conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Cohen. |
| 2:24.8 | Dr. Elizabeth Cohen. |
| 2:26.9 | Thank you so much for joining us. |
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