Why Do We Feel Depressed Around the Holidays?
Love Over Addiction
Michelle Anderson
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Michelle talks about how difficult the winter holidays can feel when loving someone struggling with addiction, the top five things people like us worry about (and it's not the turkey stuffing) and how we have two choices - quit or double down on the "holiday magic" - both are perfectly acceptable. Plus, some loving advice she would tell her younger self.
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| 0:00.0 | I am so excited that you are here. |
| 0:18.8 | Yeah, it's been a moment for some of you who have been listeners for a while. |
| 0:24.4 | I took about a year and a half off. |
| 0:28.4 | And there's no big secret reason other than the fact and the truth was I was burnt out. |
| 0:39.8 | I made it a point to continue working every week during COVID. |
| 0:47.0 | And because addiction rates were at an all-time high, |
| 0:50.0 | I knew domestic abuse was at an all-time high, |
| 0:56.1 | and when that happens, I want to be there for you. |
| 1:04.7 | But afterwards, when things settled down just a little bit, |
| 1:09.4 | I felt my body kind of, I don't want to say |
| 1:16.3 | breaking down, but refusing to participate in a healthy way. Lots of warning signs, lots of |
| 1:27.0 | doctor's appointments. and my wonderful team of |
| 1:31.9 | women that worked for me were lovingly encouraging me to perhaps take a moment. And that moment |
| 1:41.7 | turned out to be a while. So I needed rest. And yet, I am so incredibly |
| 1:51.4 | thrilled to be sitting in my living room, recording a podcast. I've spent all day. It's what, 4.30 now? Something like that. And I've been |
| 2:04.0 | writing and researching since 8.30 this morning. And I got to tell you, I have missed this. I love this. |
| 2:15.5 | And it's wild to me that I love someone struggling with addiction for 10 years |
| 2:21.8 | and read all of the books and talked to all of the rehab specialists and doctors and addiction |
| 2:30.1 | specialists for those 10 years. Then I finally left and then tried to help other people this last |
| 2:39.3 | decade by writing and researching and going back to school and learning about addiction. |
| 2:48.3 | And I am still interested. I don't know how that can be. I get bored of almost |
| 2:54.4 | everything else in my life, but this is sticking. I can't get rid of it. So guess what? |
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