SafeHouse Podcast

Season 2 Episode 10

Busting Addiction and Its Myths

The purpose of Safehouse podcast is to help families learn the truth about addiction and alcoholism so that they can take the right action to help the addict they love and to help themselves at this critical time in their lives. Exposing the truth about addiction and alcoholism also requires that we bust the myths surrounding both addiction/alcoholism and the recovery process.

Co-Dependency Happens When You’re Not Looking

Season 2 – Episode 10

By now – we are recording this in March 2020 – I’m sure you’ve heard enough about staying safe in an unsafe world, about protecting yourself from others and protecting others from you. Many people don’t think that they themselves could be a threat to others.

But what I wish to talk about today is what is often at the centre of family dysfunction when alcohol or drug addiction is ripping through the family like a runaway freight train. We are talking about co-dependency and if you are new to the concept, co-dependency is “excessive emotional or psychological reliance on a partner, (or parent or child) who requires support on account of an illness or addiction.” The tie that binds most of us together in this trap of addiction is called co-dependency.

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