E23: Defining Love in Recovery

 

"With big love comes big feelings"

 

In this episode, we explore what love means to us, now that we are in recovery. Many of us stopped maturing emotionally in our teens due to substance abuse, and so our understanding and grasp of love stopped developing, too. We explore everything from romantic love, to love between a parent and child. We talk about emotional safety and availability and what that looks like, and we put words to the feeling that is always so hard to understand and describe.

 

Other topics we cover include:

 

• How we practice self love in recovery
• Unhealthy attachment in place of real love
• How our childhood experiences color our understanding of love
• How vulnerability plays a part in love
• What love looked like in active addiction
• How we show our spouses, partners, and children love
• Learning how to receive love in recovery

 

"When we numb our emotions, we can't really feel love."

 

Meet our guests:

 

Lynn: "You can find me pretty much every day @thesobergrandmaroadtrip and I invite your listeners to click on my IG bio link for bits of my story and my fav resources. My very first podcast guest appearance and the one I always invite people to checkout is the one titled “Thesobergrandmaroadtrip is born” because it chronicles step-by-step every resource and action I took in my very early days alcohol FREE." https://linktr.ee/thesobergrandmaroadtrip

 

Michael: My name is Michael, I’m just a regular guy I do regular things. I’m an entrepreneur and employed. I run lots and lots of miles and I read a lot of books, mostly horror stories. I know a few things about a few things and am grateful for 4 years trauma informed conscious and sober. I believe we help ourselves by helping others.

 

Alex: Outside of being a mother of four, Alex is a sober warrior She started her intentional journey in February of 2022 after dealing with legal issues and being tired of the power she allowed alcohol to hold over her life. She deeply connected with a sober community through the I Am Sober app. Sobriety has been a learning journey of honesty with self and others, authenticity and mostly, what true self love and worth looks like and she wants to share what she has learned and the joys of sobriety along with creating a new sober life with others.

 

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