Five Stages To Feeling Better When You Love An Alcoholic Or Substance Abuser

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

Society & Culture, Wifeofanalcoholic, Codependency, Relationships, Recovery, Alanon

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Feeling better is a process, right? If there was some magical, fantastical button that would just make everyone feel better with no work, we’d all be there.

But that’s not the case. We have to put work into how we feel. And like anything that has a true reward in life, it takes effort. There’s a process.

Honoring (and knowing) that process can be helpful as we’re working through our own healing.

It can also be helpful to know the process as we see our loved ones work through their own healing.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Hey you're, it's Michelle. I'm in my backyard.
0:21.8	It's Michelle. I'm in my backyard.
0:23.5	You might be able to hear the birds chirping.
0:25.7	It is a stunningly gorgeous day.
0:30.0	I think it's 75 and sunny.
0:35.8	There's no humidity. It's quiet.
0:37.8	You also might be able to hear my dogs panting.
0:41.7	They've come to join me sitting out here in the sun talking to you. I know that
0:47.9	this is a difficult time for you. I get it. I've been in our secret Facebook group and read the comments and understand that
0:58.0	it's really difficult with the virus being quarantined and shut in with somebody who's suffering from
1:06.6	this disease. So last week I was giving you a little bit of tough love and I think sometimes that's really
1:17.2	appropriate and sometimes it's helpful and then other times I think that something a little bit more gentle and loving is necessary
1:27.6	and that's what this week is.
1:30.2	It's going to be, this podcast is going to be a little bit more educational too.
1:36.7	So I'm reading this book.
1:41.1	It has nothing to do with addiction, but I'm finding it incredibly entertaining and enlightening and it's called maybe you should talk to someone
1:50.8	And I think it's by Lori Gottlieb. I don't I think that's how you pronounce her last name.
1:55.6	Anyways, she's a therapist and she talks about kind of like giving up therapist secrets about how they treat their patients, what
2:08.4	goes on behind the scenes, which I find fascinating. And in one of her chapters it talks about a psychologist
2:18.9	names I'm going to get the name wrong or pronounce the name wrong but it's James Pro Shaska
2:30.3	Something like that guys. I don't know but anyways I thought his model of behavior change was really
2:36.6	important now before you like start dozing off and thinking this is going to be
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