The Embrace Family Recovery Podcast
Health & Fitness:Mental Health
How Does Sandy Detach With Love, When It Hurts To Do The Right Thing?
How do we love the person while protecting ourselves from their disease?
How do we do the right thing for us all when it feels so counterintuitive to the love we feel and the 'I shoulds' screaming in our head?
Detaching with Love not only saves the person detaching from living in the disease's control, it affords your addicted love one a chance to feel the consequences of their disease. A painful truth of the disease of addiction for both addicts and their loved ones - none of us surrender to the work of our recovery without feeling the pain of our consequences.
I hope anyone out there listening initially feels less alone with this universal challenge of learning how to detach from the disease and love the person. Secondly, I hope through Sandy's honest, open, vulnerability in sharing her story, you find a safe place and a way to share your story. That is when healing can begin. Connecting with others who have walked the path as a loved one of an addict, is the way we get well, it certainly lessens the isolation.
Today Sandy Swenson reads an excerpt from her book, The Joey Song. You will not want to miss it, and I hope you buy her book if you have never read it!
Find out more about Sandy Swenson on her website:
https://www.sandyswenson.com/dandelion-strong-blog-for-moms-with-addicted-children/
Find resources and a full transcript of the episode on my webpage
https://embracefamilyrecovery.com/
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