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Hey, it's Michelle. How are you guys? Today we're going to talk about guilt, which is

something I know a lot of us struggle with in this community. I'm just going to walk outside

my back door. You can hear the birdies. Okay, so I had a question emailed to me by one

of the women in our Facebook group and she said, I'm leaving. I'm finally leaving, but

I feel guilty. And how do I stop feeling guilty? And first, I think before I try to help

her understand why she's feeling guilty, I think it's important that we talk about, or

I'm sorry, I got that reversed. Before I talk about how to stop feeling guilty, I want

to talk about why we feel guilty. Why do we feel guilty? Because the truth of the

matter is we love people who struggle with addiction. And that typically brings a lot

of drama and a lot of pain into our life, right? And we're desperately trying to help

the person that we love get sober. We're trying to help them make better choices to stay

employed or to have better communication with their parents or to learn what it feels

like to constantly choose family over alcohol or drugs. We see how great their life can be

if they just stopped their bad behavior. And we hold on for so long because we want to

believe that they eventually, with the right time or with enough consequences or with

the right education or help, they will live the life that we know they could live. And

you guys know from the past episodes, I've done statistically speaking the chances of

that are not great. And so everyone listening, I know, I was thinking, well, I've got the,

I've got the, I love the person that's going to make it. And maybe you do. I've certainly

have had people in our community who have stayed with their loved ones. And their loved

ones have gotten sober. And that is, that is real. And that happens. And we need to celebrate

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