Spiraling And Spinning Out Of Control? You’re Not Alone.

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Loving someone with addiction can sometimes make you feel like you're spinning out of control, can't it? One moment you're feeling joy and hope, only to have it turn to fear and anger pretty quickly. And listen, you’re not alone. We've been there and completely understand.

But the good news is that you can make it feel less and less like a roller coaster ride when dealing with your loved one.

Tune in to this week's episode to hear how to stop spiraling, as well as to make sure you're moving forward in your own recovery.

Find more here:

https://loveoveraddiction.com/roller-coaster/

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This classic episode originally aired in August 2020

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0:00.0	you're listening to the Love over Addiction podcast.
0:18.5	Hey, you want to know what's so funny about this podcast?
0:22.1	I've been doing it for years.
0:23.6	And the hardest part is the intro.
0:28.3	is recording the intro like I overthink it's so much it's ridiculous that it
0:33.3	takes me like four tries just to say hello and to get into the nitty-gritty of
0:39.0	what I want to talk about it's ridiculous because I don't want to sound cheesy
0:44.7	or fake because I don't do fake so I don't want to be like hey guys I hate
0:50.2	that but I also don't want to be like a weirdo if you've never listened to me
0:56.0	before and just get right into it because you're like who is this chick and so
1:01.2	and then I don't want to talk about the virus again because I feel like I've
1:05.0	been talking about that for too long and I tend to use the same lines about the
1:09.7	virus all the time anyways whatever so my intro today is how much I struggle
1:15.4	with the intro that's the realest thing I could tell you okay today's a good
1:23.2	episode I'm really excited actually the next two episodes I've written and I
1:29.2	think they're gonna be good stuff they're gonna be real working episodes kind
1:33.7	of heavy so feel free to like play them over and over again throughout the
1:38.6	week if you need to so when you love someone suffering from addiction there
1:44.5	are a boatload of feelings that arise in you almost instantly when you find
1:54.2	out that they are drinking again and it can feel like a ruler coaster ride
1:58.0	can't it like one minute or one hour you're feeling great because they've
2:05.3	promised that they're gonna get sober and you feel hopeful and you feel kind
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