You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Hello there. How are you doing? I am reading a book and I'm getting into routine every morning where I come downstairs before the kids wake up.

I light a candle.

I put on jazz and I pick up this book and you guys this book is amazing

It's called facing co-dependence and it's by a woman named Pia Melody.

And I'm on page, well, I'm on page, let's see, whatever, doesn't matter, 39.

But what I do is, I come downstairs

and I always read with a highlighter and a pen.

And then I highlight the sentences or paragraphs

that really stand out to me.

I usually write in the margins.

And then I usually get interrupted by one of my gazillion children. So the next day, because I have a terrible

memory, just because I'm getting old y'all I will

Start reading the sentences that I have highlighted from the day before and that really helps me remember

because how often do we read these self-help books and so much steps and

Reasons and you know your brain goes a million miles a minute because it's pulling up stuff that you're having epiphanies over but then you

know it's a good book but then you put it down and you can't remember a darn thing that you read.

I don't know, maybe that I have friends that that does not happen to.

I am in awe of them.

Every book that happens for me.

So I always, I can't read without two different pens in my hand.

So maybe that technique will work for you regardless, get this book, you guys guys I was actually thinking about not to sound too

trendy because I feel like everybody's doing book clubs right now and I hate doing

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