Finding The Courage To Get Back Up Again
Love Over Addiction
Michelle Anderson
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Being in a relationship with someone suffering from addiction takes courage and can be downright hard sometimes. Am I right? There might be days filled with tears, anger, and frustration. Or maybe you make some mistakes (and that's completely normal).
But here's the thing: courage is being willing to fall apart, brush yourself off, and then keep trying. It's realizing that your tears and failures are not a measurement of YOU. It is knowing that making mistakes is part of being human, and giving yourself lots of grace is so important.
In this week's episode, I share a personal story about my son finding his courage and the importance of picking yourself back up and trying again. You've got this!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Hey guys, how are you? How are you? |
| 0:31.9 | I am, it is the second week of school for us and I am feeling exhausted to be truthful. I am tired school is kicking my butt. It's funny going from this transition of coronavirus where nothing was going on and we were stuck in our |
| 0:46.7 | homes and you know going out was kind of scary sometimes and then now it feels like things are starting to pick back up again and |
| 0:59.8 | routines are starting to happen and the structure feels really good in some sense. |
| 1:05.0 | It feels good to be purposeful again, but also I'm wondering, okay, how much of the busyness pre-Covid do I want to allow back into our lives post-Covid? |
| 1:20.0 | Because there was something and I am not saying this I realize people have died so I hope this does not come across as insensitive |
| 1:29.8 | But I did find some sort of |
| 1:37.4 | pleasure in the less busyness of it all. |
| 1:47.6 | There was something nice about slowing down and waking up without a hundred to-do's you know for the day and and going from 90 miles an hour to 20 |
| 1:59.3 | miles an hour there was something that felt really wonderful about going back to basics about that. |
| 2:07.0 | Again, I'm not trying to minimize anyone's pain or suffering. People lost their jobs, people died, |
| 2:15.0 | people got very sick. I am aware and I and I I understand that and I recognize the privilege that I had not being you know affected by this virus in that way so I want to |
| 2:29.7 | put that out there but I, I am like feeling like the petals on the gas a little bit too much again and I'm trying to figure out, okay, what can we remove, is just then is it you know are we going back to the new normal is this |
| 2:49.9 | the new normal again so that is what is going on with me, a little disclaimer there, and in the |
| 2:57.5 | struggles of picking back up the pace again, my son, Henry, my sweet little nine-year-old, had a really rough week at school. |
| 3:08.0 | And he, and I had a really interesting conversation yesterday that I thought, |
| 3:15.0 | oh I need to get on a podcast and tell you guys about it because I do think it would |
| 3:20.0 | pertain to you all as well. |
| 3:22.0 | So he has a new class this year. He's in fourth grade and he got in |
| 3:31.5 | trouble yesterday and got called out of the classroom for something that I didn't think |
| 3:40.4 | was his fault, nor did he. |
| 3:43.0 | And I am not one of those parents that, I mean, look, |
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