Six Ways To Avoid Another Holiday Full of Drama

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

When you love someone that suffers from alcoholism or addiction, the holidays can be unbearable. This season that's supposed to be family oriented and joyous can turn into a nightmare of anxiety and stress because of your loved one's behavior.

You deserve to have a good holiday. Their behavior is not your fault. I have 6 tips for you today.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Hey there, it's Michelle, and I am so glad that you are with me. I know that we are in the middle of the holiday season and for a lot of us
0:26.2	this season can be really difficult can't it? Particularly when we're driving along in our car
0:31.6	and a Christmas Carol comes on like the one that says
0:35.2	like the Holly Jolly Christmas don't worry I will not sing it for you because that would just be
0:39.7	atrocious and you will quickly press pause and refuse to come back to me.
0:46.4	So I'm not going to sing it for you but you know those lyrics right like the
0:50.8	lyrics and the Christmas carols that tell you that this is the best time of year and that everybody should be so happy and joyful.
0:58.0	But you're worried, you're depressed, you're anxious that they're not going to be sober this holiday season
1:08.0	or they're going to embarrass you if you're going to an event or maybe they've quit drinking or using drugs,
1:14.2	but they're still behaving really, really mean
1:17.0	and really, really poorly.
1:19.0	So you're going into this walking on eggshells, not really knowing what to expect. And I remember
1:28.2	when I was in that position I could not wait for the holiday seasons to be over so that we can go back to a regular routine
1:36.4	where I knew what to expect where you know we would wake up at the same time and go to bed at the same time and there's just some consistency.
1:46.8	So here's the good news is that my goal for you by the end of this podcast is to teach you the six ways that you can feel
1:58.7	in control during the holidays and so the next time that you listen to that music, those Christmas
2:06.5	carols you will be dancing along. You will be turning them up loud and
2:12.0	behind your wheel and singing along and dancing along and
2:16.2	thinking, yeah, this is a joyful season.
2:19.6	And the best part is, is that you're going to be able to do this, whether they decide to get sober or not,
2:26.7	whether they're acting out or not, you are going to be in control of your holidays. And one of the things I know many of
2:36.9	you know we talk about in our community at loveover addiction.com is that we don't believe you are powerless over this disease.
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