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Change Your Brain Every Day

Tana's Tips for Dealing with an Addiction in the Family

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Addiction played a major role in shaping Tana Amen into the woman she is today. Yet interestingly, none of these addictions were her own. Rather they were the addictions of those closest to her. In this episode of The Brain Warrior's Way Podcast, Tana and Dr. Daniel Amen give you some of their best, most practical tips for handling an addiction in the family. 

For more information on Tana's new book, "The Relentless Courage of a Scared Child", visit relentless courage.com

For info on Tana Amen's upcoming free live virtual event, visit tanaamen.com/event

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman and I'm Tanna Aeman. In our podcast we provide you with the tools you need to become a warrior for the health of your brain and body.

0:19.0

The Brain Warriors Way podcast is brought to you by Aemon Clinics, where we have been transforming

0:25.5

lives for 30 years, using tools like brain-spect imaging to personalize treatment to your

0:32.0

brain.

0:32.7

For more information,

0:34.1

visit Aaman Clinics.com.

0:35.9

The Brain Warriors Way Podcast is also brought to you

0:38.7

by Brain MD, where we produce the highest quality

0:41.6

neutraceuticals to support the health of your brain and body.

0:45.3

To learn more, go to brainMD.com.

0:49.2

Welcome back.

0:50.0

We are still talking about relentless courage of a scared child and we are just loving having

0:55.3

you on this journey with us.

0:57.1

We've been talking about addiction and mental illness and how it affects just everybody in your family.

1:05.2

And so what are some practical tips that you know for you if you are dealing with

1:09.2

someone in your family and you're you know you're that person who sort of is the glue you hold things together you're the fighter

1:17.2

how do you take care of yourself what is self-care what does that look like and how do you deal with what's going on in your family?

1:26.0

So some practical suggestions like reading the end of mental illness

1:31.0

that will help getting them to the right care and maybe

1:36.5

Aeman Clinics is part of that. We have nine clinics around the country. Our Dallas office is opening very soon.

1:45.0

We already started scheduling people, so we're pretty excited.

1:48.3

But before we get into this, I want to read a review from Kim Kim from Seattle. My therapist recommended that

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