EP 18 What to do when you love someone struggling with addiction, with Michelle Anderson

2021-11-15

CEO of Love Over Addiction, Michelle Anderson, shares how you can both help and begin to heal from the trauma of loving someone struggling with addiction. Show Notes: 00:40 Background and story for Love Over Addiction 08:15 When your “network of support” doesn’t know how to support you 11:00 Demonizing addictions and shaming those suffering from addiction 15:20 Skyrocketing rates of addiction 22:40 FOMO as a reason for drinking and addictions 24:10 How to deal with a loved one with an addiction proble...

CEO of Love Over Addiction, Michelle Anderson, shares how you can both help and begin to heal from the trauma of loving someone struggling with addiction.

Show Notes:

00:40 Background and story for Love Over Addiction

08:15 When your “network of support” doesn’t know how to support you

11:00 Demonizing addictions and shaming those suffering from addiction

15:20 Skyrocketing rates of addiction

22:40 FOMO as a reason for drinking and addictions

24:10 How to deal with a loved one with an addiction problem. Stay or Go?

27:20 How to be a friend and support someone whose partner is an addict

34:30 Why addiction is so widespread. Is there an incentive to keep women drunk?

Mommy wine culture.

37:55 Raising kids to avoid alcohol/addictions

41:00 Steps to dealing with an addicted family member