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Love Over Addiction

How Cleaning Your House and Addiction Are Related

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

When you love someone that’s suffering from addiction, your life can feel completely out of control and chaotic. That’s part of the disease, and it’s completely normal.

So how does cleaning relate to all this? Well, it’s more than meets the eye. Learn how cleaning can bring back some control, peace, and even joy into your life today.

Taking simple steps, getting small wins, and finding easy-to-do things is the way to start your recovery. You’ve already started by just listening to this podcast. Now, it’s time for your linen closet.

Find more helpful tips and show notes here: https://loveoveraddiction.com/how-cleaning-and-addiction-are-related/

We have a free guidesheet for you here: https://loveoveraddiction.com/compassion131/

And if you’re ready to join the Love Over Addiction community, learn more about our online programs here: https://loveoveraddiction.com/

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Hey, so today we are going to be talking about one of my applications.

0:19.0

Hey, so today we are going to be talking about one of my absolutely favorite topics to talk about

0:28.7

cleaning.

0:30.7

If I ever did another podcast, I would make it about cleaning. I would make it about

0:39.3

like designing like interior, because that's also what I love to do.

0:47.0

I would make it about kids

0:50.1

because I have a gazillion of them.

0:56.0

And other kind, oh oh and you know what else I make it about? I'd make it about skin care and like vitamins and stuff like that

1:05.0

I love researching about that stuff. But since I don't have that other podcast,

1:07.0

and since you're listening because you're probably in a lot of pain right now

1:11.0

and you have bigger issues to deal with than like what

1:14.6

face cream to wear or you know how to get you know your house decorated or whatever I'm going to talk to you about cleaning. Now you might

1:27.5

go Michelle, what the heck does cleaning have to do with addiction. A lot actually. We talk about tools. We give you

1:38.1

tons of tools, right? Well, cleaning is one of the tools that can have many, many benefits when you are living in chaos because addiction is chaos.

1:54.0

provides instability.

1:58.0

addiction can make us feel incredibly out of control.

2:02.1

And so we're like, wait a second,

2:04.4

you don't need to stay and out of control.

2:06.6

You don't need to continue to live in,

2:08.8

you know, this land of unpredictability.

2:11.6

Let's take accountability for you and your life and your actions and

2:15.4

one of the ways to do that is to maintain and keep order and

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