SafeHouse Podcast

Season 1 Episode 09

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.

More about enabling and co-dependency

Season 1 – Episode 09

In this episode, I discuss the many forms of enabling and ask you to shine the light on your own denial and enabling if you have an active addict/alcoholic in the house.
Enabling and codependency go hand in hand, with enabling as a subset of codependency, in my humble opinion.

Now that we got the technical part of the topic out of the way, let’s talk about all the different and quite subconscious ways that we enable our loved one the addict or alcoholic, and sometimes they are both. By the way, in my book, calling someone an addict rules in alcohol while calling someone an “alcoholic” rules out drug abuse.

But that’s only if you know the truth, and they hardly ever tell you the truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth. Even when they have their hands on the bible.

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