How To Thrive When You Love Someone Suffering From Addiction

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Thriving. It’s more than surviving. It’s joy, excitement, opportunity, fun.

And let’s be honest, when we love someone suffering from addiction, it can be very challenging to get to that space within ourselves.

I know it took me a long time, but I did get there. And I know you can too.

Today we hear from our community. Which you know, I’ve said a thousand times, I love our community. These women are full of power and wisdom. And listen, they’re thriving. They’ve done a lot of work to get here, and now they’re in a space where they’re learning about their own selves.

For some of them it’s coming back around to who they once were, and for others, it’s discovering a whole new self.

Isn’t that fantastic?

Please listen to (or read) their ways of thriving with open hearts and minds, and as always, without judgment.

Find more here: https://loveoveraddiction.com/thriving/

Join the community here: https://loveoveraddiction.com/

Connect personally: https://www.instagram.com/love_over_addiction/

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Hi Joe here again this week we're back with more from our community.
0:24.6	And today it's all about thriving, truly thriving.
0:29.6	Because when we love someone suffering from addiction, it's easy to get caught up in their issues
0:35.9	and when we're caught up in anything
0:38.3	especially someone struggling with addiction we can't thrive.
0:42.8	It's impossible.
0:44.2	When we're able to take some time and focus away from them in their addiction, that gives us
0:49.9	power.
0:51.4	That gives us space and energy to explore other things to focus on.
0:57.0	A lot of times we hear from women in our community of the profound experience that they have when they take energy out of their
1:05.2	partner suffering from addiction. They realize how much they were putting in to
1:10.9	managing the addiction in the first place and how much they were really
1:15.1	losing themselves. And listen, here's the other thing. The idea of taking energy
1:21.4	and attention and focus off of your partner suffering from addiction
1:26.5	can be really scary because it's new.
1:30.1	And if you're not putting the energy and focus there,
1:32.9	maybe you feel like things will fall apart.
1:36.1	That is a completely reasonable fear.
1:38.9	And of course you feel that way.
1:40.9	There's never any judgment here. Give yourself space to feel and experience what
1:46.8	you will. And when you're ready, think about thriving. Let's hear how our community drives. Their voices are full of
1:57.2	wisdom and these women that you hear talking actually understand what you're going through more than anyone else
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