Ways To Spend Your Energy When You’re Feeling Overwhelmed

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

When you love someone struggling with addiction, you've maybe felt overwhelmed sometimes. Or you start believing some negative thoughts about yourself that their addiction tries to convince are true. Can you relate?

So how can you start to change this?

Tune in to this new episode where I share some tips to help you feel less overwhelmed and more empowered instead.

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https://loveoveraddiction.com/feeling-overwhelmed/

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast.
0:18.3	Hello.
0:20.5	So today, I'm going to try and keep it short.
0:24.3	And we're going to talk
0:27.6	about the feelings you have about yourself
0:34.5	when you love someone struggling with addiction.
0:38.3	So y'all know I've been doing this for, I don't know, 12 years, over 10 years.
0:43.9	And
0:46.4	there is a consistent issue that I hear from you all
0:53.7	that I once could relate to as well.
0:57.2	And that is when you love someone struggling with addiction,
1:03.0	it becomes very easy at times to start to hate yourself.
1:12.0	Now, if we were all together in a room and I said,
1:14.4	Hey, everyone raise your hand who hates addiction.
1:17.9	Every single person, every single one of us would raise their hand, right?
1:22.4	But what if I asked you, how do you feel about yourself?
1:31.2	Is there any self-loathing going on?
1:35.8	Is there some negative beliefs about yourself that we need to re-evaluate?
1:44.8	Are there feelings of guilt that you're staying in an unhealthy relationship?
1:52.4	Are there feelings of hopelessness?
1:56.3	Or are there feelings of being lost and not knowing what to do?
2:02.7	Where to go?
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