Welcome to let it be easy with Susie Moore.

There is a saying that I love that's actually a very well known saying in AA in Alcoholics Anonymous and it's this. If you don't want to slip, don't go where it's slippery.

Now in the context slippery.

Now in the context of AA, I used to go to Al-Anon when I was younger because my father, who was an alcoholic

who died of addiction when I was 19.

In AA, obviously that means if you don't want to drink alcohol,

you may not want to go to places that serve a lot of alcohol.

Right?

Maybe you don't want to go to the bar,

the parties where it's all about drinking.

You don't want to go somewhere where there's a group of people

where drinking is the common denominator amongst everybody there.

Now this isn't a conversation or a podcast episode around addiction or about alcohol. It's about this statement. If you don't want to slip,

don't go where it's slippery. Now, I've always remembered that because it applies to so much. It applies to so so so many things.

And I was having a conversation with a friend of mine. many things.

And I was having a conversation with a friend of mine recently, she lives in Australia, and she's

having a rough time right now, right?

She's got three young kids and her husband's away a lot he has a corporate job he travels a lot and she is just exhausted right I admire this woman three young kids she's working part-time, I'm just, she is, in my eyes just

this absolute heroine.

And she contacts me saying she just feels awful.

And I'm like, look, you've got to give yourself a break.

You're in a phase of your life that's very physically demanding, right?

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