How to Practice Self-Care During a Crisis

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Stick with me here, because I know self-care is a buzzword right now. I’m not about buzzwords, but I am all about you learning the tools you need to handle this disease.

When we love someone suffering from addiction, our lives become chaotic and out of control. That’s just the way addiction works.

So on today’s episode, we’ll dive deep into your self-care, and how to maintain it during a crisis. It’s an important skill, and worth having these tools in your back pocket for the next time there’s an especially chaotic time. Because addiction gets crazy, and our lives can get completely out of control.

These are helpful tips for everyday life and during a crisis.

Find more here: https://loveoveraddiction.com/self-care-during-a-crisis/

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0:00.0	You're listening to of Love Over Addiction, a community of amazing,
0:27.8	amazing women from all over the world who love someone suffering from addiction.
0:33.9	And today we are in the middle of a series
0:38.2	where we're talking about several helpful tips that are specifically designed just for you,
0:46.0	not the one you love, about how to find our happiness and joy
0:51.0	whether our loved ones get sober or not. And for those of
0:55.2	you that are new because we are getting hundreds of new ladies coming in every
1:00.8	day, this is something we believe in. We do not believe in waiting
1:06.0	around for somebody to get sober for us to start to feel better. Why?
1:11.0	Because that is handing over our power.
1:14.0	That is making us feel helpless and perhaps sorry for ourselves and maybe victims or martyrs and we are none of those.
1:29.0	We are strong, courageous women who had a, were very capable before loving somebody
1:36.7	suffering from addiction and nothing has changed. We are as capable or more
1:42.4	capable of creating that life that we love, with them in it, and sometimes
1:47.8	without them in it. There's no judgment in our community ever.
1:53.0	Leave, stay, the decision is up to you.
1:56.4	You're never gonna hear me to tell you do one or the other.
1:59.7	What I'm gonna do and my entire purpose and why I've been doing this for nine years is to
2:05.2	empower you to help you understand how capable, how strong, how how
2:15.0	loving and how wonderful you are.
2:19.0	I want to be that voice that is louder than the voice of addiction inside of your head telling you
2:26.4	that this future of yours, it can be beautiful, it can be better than anything you can ever think of, anything you've ever
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