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Loving An Addict | Al Anon, Stressed, Exhausted, Self Care, Boundaries, Codependent
By Tara Little| Christian Coach, Self Care Coach, Wellness Coach, Certified Nutrition CoachHealth & FitnessReligion & SpiritualityChristianityEducationSelf-Improvement
Loving An Addict | Al Anon, Stressed, Exhausted, Self Care, Boundaries, Codependent episodes
- 26/ Are You Prioritizing Yourself While Caring For Them? Here Are 3 Ways You Can
When you are caring for someone else, whether it is from addiction or if it is due to illness or any other way you must find ways to prioritize yourself.
It does not have to be something major, it can be small things. If you do not take sometime to check in with you. You will notice you will eventually be constantly stressed and truly exhausted, both physically and emotionally
8 min - 25/ Are You In A Season of Caregiving? Why You MUST Practice Self Care ...Even If You Do Not Want To
Life happens. Sometimes it takes loud wake up calls to realize you need to practice more self care. especially in hard seasons when you do not want to.
Whether it is addiction, children, a demanding job or your parents, we tend to be pulled in so many directions. One day you may notice that you have put yourself on the back burner far too long.
My life update and how it is a reminder for you to focus on your self while helping others.
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14 min - 24/ Why Setting Boundaries With An Addict Can Feel So Guilty (And Why That Doesn't Mean You're Wrong)
If you love someone struggling with an addiction, setting boundaries can feel incredibly uncomfortable and stressful. You may know deep down that you need to protect your peace, stop overwhelming yourself, or step out of the constant cycle of rescuing... but the moment you do , guilt shows up.
Why?
In this episode, we're talking about why guilt often follows boundary setting- especially when you've spent so much time prioritizing someone else's needs over your own.
You'll learn why feeling guilty does not automatically mean you're doing something wrong.
Boundaries are a form of self care. You are worth prioritizing your health, wellness, emotional wellbeing and your peace!
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19 min - 23/ When The Stress of Their Addiction Disconnects You from Your Body, Try this..
We take our bodies' for granted. We go through our day to day worrying about everything and everybody, but what about our body?
Try this exercise throughout the day to check in with your body and see what it is telling you.
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14 min - 22/ Are You Eating Your Feelings? When Food Becomes a Coping Tool When You Love An Addict
One way that you may be coping with the high stress situation of loving someone with an addiction is food. Let's face it we are exhausted, overwhelmed and under chronic stress. We are looking for ways to cope, even if we do not know it.
This is not abnormal and it is nothing to be ashamed of.
If you feel concerned or would like a shift for your emotional or stress eating. Try checking in with yourself and trying to determine what you need. Have you given yourself enough food throughout the day?
Reach in your tool box and try something else before you reach for that food.
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14 min - 21/ If You Feel Angry About Their Addiction, You Are Not Alone. What Is It Doing To You?
Feeling angry tends to come with the territory of loving someone with an addiction.
It is a strong emotion and one of many. Sometimes we try to suppress our anger while other times we feel so angry but we do not even know why.
Today I will go over why it is ok to feel angry but also what holding on to that anger is doing to your body.
Have questions? Have a topic you would love for me to discuss on the show?
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17 min - 20/ Always Emotional and Overwhelmed with Their Addiction? Your Stress Bucket May Be Full
Days, weeks and months of stress adds up. Their addiction is adding to all of the other stress that life brings and you may be feeling that!
If you find that you seem less tolerant, feel more overwhelmed or emotional, you are not crazy or weak. Your stress bucket is probably full. Listen as I explain the stress bucket with 3 tips to starting emptying yours.
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22 min - 19/ How To Lower Cortisol When The Stress of Loving an Addict Feels Overwhelming
Last week I shared my story about how the years of unmanaged stress from my loved one's addiction caused my cortisol to be chronically elevated.
This week I wanted to share some symptoms of chronically elevated cortisol and some tips on how to keep your cortisol regulated.
Maybe try incorporating one of these tools a day !
Remember the goal is never to have cortisol at zero. Cortisol is a beneficial and necessary hormone.
If you missed last week find it here
Other episodes related:
Episode 16
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21 min - 18/ I Didn't Know That The Stress of Loving An Addict Was Changing My Body...
Years of chronic stress, during my loved one's addiction struggles not only led me feeling overwhelmed, and exhausted, but I did not know that a lot of the reason for this was because I was not supporting my body.
I began to experience emotional and physical changes in my body due to a dysregulated nervous system and chronically elevated cortisol. Here is some of my story.
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28 min - 17/ Stressed, Exhausted & Overwhelmed? 6 Foundations to Support Your Body Under Chronic Stress.
The purpose of this podcast is to support you as you navigate this season of chaos while loving someone with an addiction.
Today I wanted go over my 6 foundations of supporting your body while it is under this chronic stress.
Be the ANCHOR in the sea of turmoil that addiction brings. ⚓️
You do not need to try to overhaul your life all at once. Take these foundations a little at a time and start with your biggest struggle.
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Episode 4 fight or flight
19 min
About Loving An Addict | Al Anon, Stressed, Exhausted, Self Care, Boundaries, Codependent
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*** Top 5% Globally Ranked Podcast***
Hey friend! I am Tara a faith led wellness coach and I too love an addict.
For over two decades. I spent most of my time on a mission to cure my loved one from his addiction. I spent years trying to get him into rehab centers, visiting him in jail, moving him from house to house, being the go to person to try to take some burden off of my family, looking up natural ways to "cure" him, obsessing about it really. His addiction became my addiction in a sense.
All of this time I did NOTHING to take care of me. I ignored my needs. I ignored my body to the point I was completely disconnected from it. Until it began screaming out loud and made me listen.
I was stressed, exhausted and eventually burnt out. I had no idea why I had lost my resilience. Why were little things so hard. Why was a crying all of time. Why was I gaining so much weight when I had not changed anything in my eating. Why was I tired but wired. Why had I lost interest in anything that I used to love. Why was I waking up at 3 am? And eventually why could I not get off the couch.
I could not help myself it seemed let alone even think about helping my loved one anymore.
After years of prayer, study and self reflection. The reason was clear. I had focused so much of my energy on my loved one and everyone else, that I forgot about myself.
Not once did I consider what I need in order to take care of my self through while coping with his addiction.
I had no idea that self care should have been my priority. My body had had enough neglect and it shut me down.
So now I am here for you. I am here to remind you that YOU matter. YOU need self care. YOU need boundaries. YOU need to fuel yourself. YOU need to rest. YOU need all of the things that you feel that they need and more.
You need to be an ANCHOR in the sea of turmoil that addiction brings. You did not choose this. You can not control this. You can prioritize yourself though. No one else will. It is not selfish. It is necessity. It is survival.
This podcast is for you. The woman who loves an addict. Who feels she is alone in this. Who does not recognize herself anymore. Who has no peace or joy. Who feels like self care feels selfish and impossible during this season.
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