How The 12 Steps Can Help You

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

If you have a loved one struggling with addiction, you might have heard about the '12 Steps' of recovery. These are a set of guidelines (steps) to work toward recovery.

As you know, I usually don't go into depth about their alcoholism or addiction. However, understanding these steps can help indicate where they're at in their own recovery.

Tune in to this week's new episode, where I'll cover the first two 'steps.' (We'll dive into the other steps in the coming weeks). There's also a free printable worksheet that you can print and fill out.

Find more here:

https://loveoveraddiction.com/12-steps/

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast.
0:17.9	Hello, hello, how are you guys?
0:20.5	Today, we're going to talk about the 12 steps.
0:24.9	Now, for those of you that have been listening for a couple of years,
0:29.8	you're like, wait, Michelle, I thought you said that you don't cover
0:35.2	or going to depth about helping us understand
0:41.1	alcoholism or addiction.
0:44.1	You only say you help us loving someone that struggles with alcohol,
0:50.9	alcoholism and addiction.
0:53.1	And I get that.
0:53.9	I have said that in the past, but I think going over these 12 steps,
0:59.6	my intention is to help you by understanding that this is,
1:09.6	if the person you love can do some, if not all, of the things that the 12 steps
1:19.2	recommend, then that is a really good beginning and foundation to
1:28.9	getting sober and staying sober.
1:33.7	So if you're looking, if you're like distressed and going, I think I'm going crazy.
1:38.7	I'm madly in love with someone who keeps hurting me, who's not getting sober.
1:43.3	I'm trying everything I know how to help them and nothing is working.
1:49.0	Is there really this big of an issue?
1:51.4	Like, is it me, which loving someone struggling with addiction and having
1:58.2	a really like sensitive heart?
2:00.9	We as people who do that, it can be really difficult.
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