The Honest Truth About Finding Balance

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In today’s culture it seems like we’re expected to be a certain way. Especially as women. We’re expected to balance life, work, children, self-care, all of it. Every day. With balance, grace, and ease.

Well, I’m here to tell you that it’s BS. It’s not easy, especially when we love someone suffering from addiction.

So today’s episode is a little different taste. It’s real, raw, and unscripted. It’s giving ourselves permission to be hot-messes and take the path of least resistance, just to get by.

It’s a boost of encouragement that you’re doing just as great as every other woman out there, including me.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Okay, you guys know that I have like a hundred kids and that I really
0:19.0	Okay, you guys know that I have like a hundred kids and that I run this community and I've always
0:29.5	been the woman on the quest to find a balance.
0:36.2	And then it hit me that balance is BS.
0:51.0	I think one of the secrets to life is figuring out there is no such thing as balance. In fact, even the word makes me upset. Here's the truth, the way I see it and
0:59.0	the conclusion that I've come to. You are either winning at being a mom and being a wife and throwing all of your energy
1:08.9	into making sure your kids take their vitamins and getting the lunches packed and filling out the
1:14.8	college applications with them and taking them on playdates and soccer practices and folding laundry and tucking them in at night and telling them how much you love them and kissing them on the forehead.
1:30.0	You're either knocking it out of the park doing that or you are doing none of the
1:38.1	above you are sending them to school with crustables frozen peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and
1:46.3	some random goldfish packages that you can find in the back of your pantry.
1:52.3	You are telling them they'll just find a college that they can go to and it will do.
2:00.0	You're forgetting their vitamins for the third day in a row.
2:05.0	In soccer practice, you can find only one shingard.
2:09.3	And that teacher-parent conference meeting
2:11.6	that you had scheduled,
2:13.5	you have to reschedule it over and over again.
2:18.2	You're either doing that, one or the other.
2:21.2	You're not doing all of the above consistently forever. I just do not believe that.
2:27.9	If you are a working mom like me and you consider yourself employed, whether self-employed or employed by somebody else.
2:37.0	Forget it.
2:38.0	Just forget it.
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