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The Dr. Laura Podcast

Moving Forward as a Recovering Alcoholic

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Leslie reports on how Dr. Laura's homework assignment helped change her mood and attitude, and she gets a 2nd suggestion for how to deal with anxiety as she rebuilds her life. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0

Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.

0:11.5

Leslie, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. I'm calling you back. spoke to you on Friday.

0:21.7

Okay. For those who didn't hear you on Friday. Okay.

0:22.5

For those who didn't hear us on Friday, give a thumbnail sketch of why you called, what I said, and what's the update?

0:30.6

Okay.

0:32.5

I called because, well, let me see if I can, let me see if I can sum it up.

0:43.6

It's like night and day today from Friday, but I called.

0:48.4

I was very depressed and frustrated about moving with my life after a long marriage and divorce.

1:00.5

And I was very emotional and unable to really kind of get my emotions regulated a lot.

1:17.7

And what else?

1:30.0

Really depressed, unmotivated.

1:35.6

It's been, it'll be two years of May since the divorce.

1:50.2

And it's been extremely trying on my life and now I'm trying to create a life on my own and the emotional distress and the you know continued fears and anxiety about being abandoned and betrayed

1:59.5

have just really affected my quality of life.

2:04.5

And you, I first want to say you, I cannot say how compassionate and kind you were and how sorry this is good crime it's good

2:27.3

crime it is it was like you could see through me and sink into me and know exactly like know me.

2:39.0

And know me.

2:40.0

And that was extremely impactful.

2:47.0

And I feel like what you did is you, because of your compassion and your kindness, you really confirmed where I was, where I am.

3:01.6

And I needed that because I beat myself up so much about not being able to move on.

3:14.3

And the main thing you asked me to do, my assignment was to jump up and down 20 times.

3:23.3

And we did that while I was on the phone with you on Friday.

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