What Do You Want To Accomplish?
Love Over Addiction
Michelle Anderson
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
When you love someone with addiction, it can be easy to forget what you want to accomplish in your life because the focus is usually on them. Does that sound familiar? You're not alone.
But with the new year quickly approaching, it's a great time to do some self-reflection and take back your power against this disease. To step away from the chaos and drama that their addiction (and the holidays) can bring.
In this week's episode, I share some questions to ask yourself about your goals and what you want to accomplish. Grab a cup of hot tea and find a quiet place to listen and reflect. And remember, this is about what you want independent of your loved one.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Hello, how are you? This is probably coming out around the holidays and so if you are struggling because you love someone with addiction and it's the holidays and you are like, I love Christmas Carols but if they tell me to be Holly and |
| 0:34.8 | Jolly one more time I'm just you know gonna drive off the road I don't feel like it's |
| 0:40.7 | Holly and Jolly I feel like my life is falling apart I feel like I don't feel like it's Holly and Jolly I feel like my life is falling apart I feel like I don't know how to cope and how to handle and you're comparing |
| 0:48.0 | your relationship to everyone else around you and thinking that everybody else around you has it easier than you do |
| 0:54.2 | you're right they do you have it way way harder than most people particularly |
| 1:01.8 | during this time of year. |
| 1:03.6 | So whatever you're feeling is normal, it's okay, |
| 1:09.5 | and you don't have to try and like, know judge yourself for feeling crappy. Stop that like just say |
| 1:19.9 | yeah this this holiday season it's difficult for me and that's okay and I'm gonna be |
| 1:27.9 | okay with it being difficult doesn't mean that it's gonna be difficult every |
| 1:31.3 | year you're actually like getting help right now and so chances are |
| 1:36.3 | next year you're going to have a better holiday season. But this one might be stinky and that's okay. I had to I told you guys my last |
| 1:45.4 | podcast I decided to finally leave my ex-husband during on Christmas day many years ago because that was my breaking point and I am so |
| 1:55.4 | grateful it was literally the worst Christmas ever he went to his left during |
| 2:02.3 | Christmas day to go meet up with his drug dealer. |
| 2:05.0 | And I was like, you know what? That's it. |
| 2:08.0 | It was one of the breaking points. I had many, but anyways, I look back on that Christmas now and I thank God |
| 2:17.1 | for that Christmas because it had to get really bad in order for me to make changes I needed to. So if it's bad for you, |
| 2:27.9 | listen, I hear you and you don't have to fake it with me. I get it. But this is my holiday gift to you, all right? |
| 2:39.6 | Or you get excited because no it's not like a car free car like Oprah or anything like |
| 2:47.4 | that it's actually not anything close to being that awesome but it is a |
| 2:51.4 | little gift for you. Okay I'm reading a book it's amazing it's |
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