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‘Boundaries’ is a loaded term. We like to talk about 1. Coming from a place of love first (for ourselves and others), 2. Finding the edges where we get pushed beyond our limits based (self not other focused), 3. Setting those limits, communicating them positively, and creating contingencies for how to react.
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It’s not rocket science, but a little self analysis and prior planning puts us in the best position to thrive.
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Know what I’m saying?
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Want to know more? We actually have a whole topic on this in our Playbook category on Le site! Www.wethevillage.co check it out ✌️
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I’ve experienced this. Years of worry, and waiting for the other shoe to drop. Then one year in recovery. And the chronic stress of it all just dropped away. I couldn’t believe it. Sometimes it would flare up, overextended in a moment, a trigger. But I’m general...it got better, easily, as things got better.
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Which they do.
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Remembering the impermanence of things is vital
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@thegoodquote
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+ this!
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@sober_faust
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Most people don’t understand what it’s like to love someone through addiction, mostly because we don’t talk about it! When you join We The Village community site or group meetings you realize that we’re not alone in this at all - that people understand intricately the types of experiences we’re having because they are having them too.
But if we don’t talk about it we’ll never get to make that heart opening realisation. We’re here to support YOU because we’ve been there and we’ll no longer battle it alone
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Join us weekly on Wednesdays for our digital group meeting to share your story - it’s the one others might just need to hear too. You’ll also walk away with new skills you can use immediately in life to feel better and help your loved one. Linkinbio to register - and also for our community site which is free and open 24/7 to connect with peers like you
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via @yourmanicdepression
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Loving someone through addiction, we play roles we may not be used to. ⠀⠀
Perhaps learning for the first time our motherly instincts or feeling like a coach or therapist. ⠀⠀
In some cases we’re trying to hard to hold it all together for our loved one, we become too perfect and they feel stuck in the role of the failure.
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Though showing them that life can be joyful and healthy, happy and fun can in itself be helpful. Showing up as too perfect can be dissuading. We are human too
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We also break down, need support and self care and make mistakes too. Know what I mean?
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via @pnw.sober.girl
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Hurt people hurt people. But HEALED people heal people.
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Our experiences to unconditionally love someone through the chaos of addiction make us prime candidates for healing ourselves and others. Never forget how much pain it took to be this gentle
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via @sankofahealingstudio
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Word just like any other human...
But with a hijacked brain
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via @4theloveofanaddict
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On being busy...feel me? via @beccaleephotography
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In the journey through a loved one’s recovery we focus more on the new relationships we’re creating together than a grasping to the ones we had. We’re all different for it, and I think that’s just alright by me ⠀⠀
via @roads_to_recovery
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