There’s a saying in Al-Anon that it works because we’re not all crazy at the same time. But unfortunately here in America most of us are going a bit crazy if not totally crazy. So what do you do when you’re dealing with not just alcoholics and addicts but all the unrecovered codependents? If you’re like me you record a podcast! Please go to the addicted to people Facebook page to offer comments, questions, funny story, music, whatever! I’m up for all of it

This episode deals with the idea of Maslow‘s hierarchy and how institutions people and philosophies can actually stop us from being our best selves, from being happy joyous and free as promised in the big book. I hope that even if you’ve heard this information before it helps in some small way to analyzing your relationships and whether they’re good for you supportive or whether they are controlling. Please get a hold of me on The addicted to people Facebook page I will be happy to answer any questions or listen to any stories. Bye-bye pandas

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discussion about the pursuit of happiness and the pursuit of not being depressed in the age of a pandemic. I talk about a wonderful documentary that posits the three main elements of creating happiness in your life and a wonderful book by Johann Hari about how to break through Depression. I hope you get something useful from the podcast and if you do I hope that you leave me a note or whatever you feel like doing. I would love to hear from you because community is very important to me and is a big a big thing in this episode. You can reach me at [email protected].

This episode is all about how much we have to surrender the things that we can’t control. That the suffering that will cause ourselves by not surrendering to think you can’t control is what makes our life fairly miserable. So I talk about you know what it’s like to surrender to the point what it’s like to surrender to the to the fact that we can’t win the battle of alcohol so far I love you and that we can’t change our parents we can’t change our past every really frankly can’t change anybody. I do end on a positive note that sometimes surrender could be the best thing that ever happened to you. So please I would love to hear from you on Twitter @NancyMaclaren or email. [email protected]

This is a bit of a heavy topic when I called the original world is when a baby when a child is not loved by a parent and doesn’t get the kind of sense of self-worth that children need between zero and two years old and I am interested in hearing what anyone has to say about it and if they understand any of it is very very interesting to me I’d love to hear from people so please get a hold of me on Twitter and through email @NancyMaclaren. [email protected]

In this episode we delve again into the idea of acceptance of reality as it is in the present. Also talk about how important it is to make informed decisions about what we’re going to do and that part of the information we need is about addiction and the specific addiction that are left one is dealing with. It’s also good to know about our own addiction but it sounds to me is that you’re listening to this you were already searching to find out a little bit more about what does it mean oh how does that work in your life when you’re addicted to other people basically as Dr. Phil would say how’s that working for you? Please comment on Twitter @nancymaclaren or email me at [email protected]. And subscribe ya bastards!

In this episode we talk about how hard it is for people to accept bad circumstances. That one of the reasons that we don’t want to accept things is that means we have to do something and we don’t want to do that because we’re afraid. So before a person can really really accept that what is is they have to deal with their fears so they can move on. Please get a hold of me on Twitter @NancyMacLaren and on my email and [email protected] subscribe, like, send smoke signals ,whatever you’re up to

In this episode I do a little swerve mostly away from recovery but talking a lot about who we are as addicted people when we’re not with the people we’re addicted to. That being addicted to anything, a person or a substance usually means that we’re not maturing as a human being. It means that the things that scare us confuse us we find too hard to deal with we hide all of those feelings and lose our selves in an addiction. in our case we hide behind our relationships with other people. You can hide behind anything, you can be addicted to heroin or alcohol or gaming or golf or whatever it is that keeps you from really feeling your feelings and working out the problems. Follow me on Twitter @NancyMaclaren or shoot me an email at [email protected]

In this episode we talk a little bit about gaslighting and what it’s like to grow up not believing that what you saw what you heard or what you felt was real. How we come to doubt ourselves to the point where we believe what people say over what we see. And this is a real problem when you’re dealing with an alcoholic. So come and see me on Twitter @NancyMacLaren and leave me some messages and subscribe and I hope that you keep coming back because I love seeing that there are so many of you outside of the United States that areListening to this podcast and I would love to hear why. why are you interested in this topic and what are you getting out of it? I hope you’re getting something !
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Do you have critical thinking skills? When you look at a piece of media do you know what went into making it the way it was? A lot of how we feel about ourselves and a lot about how we feel about other people has been manipulated and if we haven’t been taught how to think about things critically we just react. Join me in a bit of a dive into how critical thinking skills can change the world. And please see me at @Nancy MacLaren on Twitter thank you so much oh and subscribe