When Somone You Love Has an Addiction
There is nothing good about addiction. And loving a person with an addiction, whether it be your partner, friend, child, or relative, is a challenging experience loaded with emotional pain and isolation. It will steal your peace and sanity if you let it. A loved one's addiction usually takes precedence over relationships, finances, health, communication, and sometimes even their children. Watching them refuse the help they need the most is devastating and always disheartening. So, loving them involves navigating an emotional maelstrom of love, fear, frustration, sadness, and anger, especially when someone in addiction can become physically, emotionally, and verbally abusive. To say that loving someone with an addiction is not easy would be an understatement. As long as they're within your personal orbit, there will be anxiety. Still, we love them.
This colorful guided journal can help. It is a private space where you can be honest with yourself, unfiltered by the pressures of the relationship or external expectations. It helps you to create clarity, set boundaries, and commit to self-care, regardless of the inevitable drama your addicted loved one's disease creates in your life. And it promotes healing.
It helps you focus on YOU because "You didn't cause it, you can't control it, and you can't cure it," but you're still suffering, regardless. And that doesn't matter if they live on the streets or are living at home.
Take part in this 7-day intense but healing deep dive into yourself as your relationship with yourself. The 7 days do not have to be completed consecutively but can be accomplished as tolerated. You are encouraged to repeat the process as often as needed.
It will help you:- Release inevitable tension and find perspective in a safe place.
- Release pent-up feelings of frustration, sadness, and anger.
- Clarify your thoughts around what boundaries you need to set for your own well-being while allowing you to affirm your limits and reflect on when and why you need to hold firm.
- Sort through conflicting emotions and make more thoughtful, less reactive decisions.
- To productively manage the stress that inevitably accompanies loving someone with addiction.
- Find clarity on recurring patterns.
- Acquire insight into your own emotions.
- Detect codependencies.
- Maintain sanity.
- Promote healing.
Loving someone with an addiction makes you a reluctant member of a club of which no one wants to be a part. But here you are. May we all suffer less because of our love for them, not suffer more. And may we stay sane amidst their insanity.
A Sanity Journal
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