In this episode we explore another one of the emotional regulation skills or ideas from dialectical behavior therapy and that is removing toxic relationships from your life. This is a lifelong skill and challenge but a lot of people in recovery have a lot of other people that should be in recovery in their lives that are wrecking havoc with their mental health. So hopefully this will give some insight into what those relationships look like and give you a little courage to get rid of them. Please let me know what you think go to my email at [email protected] or reach out to me on Twitter @NancyMacLaren.

Absolutely nothing. If you’re in the 60s 70s generation as I am you’ll see this is a play on the song “War! what is it good for absolutely nothing “ but this is about depression, my own personal war. I know is a lot of peoples personal war so we’re going to talk about not what you’re depressed about, think that’s pretty obvious to most of us, but what we can do about it even when we think we don’t have the ability to do anything about it - like you’re in quarantine for 4 months with no end in sight!!!! so we’re gonna talk a little bit about emotional regulation which is a part of dialectical behavior therapy and it has helped me so much and I hope that it can help you too!

Today we tackle enabler‘s and enabling which most addictive people are certainly in that category. Also I discuss what it’s like to be enabled and how I had to break away from being enabled by my parents to actually grow up and become a human being. So jump on in remember to go to my Twitter feed @NancyMacLaren let me know what you think thanks

Do you feel the same feelings as a loved one to the point where you don’t really know where your feelings start and their feelings end? If so you might be addicted to people. Enmeshment is the very definition of being addicted to a person so we’re gonna talk about what does it mean how can you tell if you’re enmeshed with someone and what can you do about it.

I am a little ragged this week due to all the stuff that’s going on in America at the moment. the title asks Is America an alcoholic because I realize that the feelings that I have about what’s going on are very a kin to the feelings that I had when I was living with active alcoholism so much chaos so much pain so much anger so much that’s not in my control. So this episode is all about the different slogans that I use, the different tools that I use to keep myself from going insane on a daily basis and I hope they help you.

My guest Karen speaks from the heart about her very difficult childhood and how it's affected her life. Lots of experience, strength and hope! Go to the Facebook page "addicted to People" to comment or ask questions AND subscribe!

A further exploration into the idea of the three A’s awareness, acceptance, and action. In this episode I talk about the reality that we choose to see and how it affects how we view life from that point on out of which lens do we see things. Are we optimist or pessimist or realists?

There are three A’s in recovery; the first one is awareness, the second one is acceptance and the third one is action. The awareness is a part that comes actually before you even start step one which is all about acceptance and so in this episode I talk a little bit about becoming aware of a situation and I read a bit from the Al-Anon bluebook so that you can hear some of the wisdom that’s in the program and I hope that you get something from it! of course I do. And please respond on addicted to people Facebook page and subscribe or follow whatever it is you wanna do thanks

In this episode I tackled the deep and complex topic of true love happiness and contentment and self-worth. I know that seems a lot for only 30 minutes but I’m a wizard at this kind of thing. No that’s not true it’s just scratching the surface of course will be talking about this more and more and of course I would love to hear from you and I can actually know what other people think besides me which is always a blessing. So please go to the addicted to people Facebook page and leave me a message subscribe like whatever those things are that you like to do.

In this episode I talk about basic idea which is that a lot of us end up going to the hardware stores looking for bread. And when they don’t have bread some of us hang around just waiting until they might have bread someday or one time we saw they had bread so we stick around. it’s a little deeper than that but not much.so I hope you join me for this episode of addictive people