Disclaimer: This episode talks about mental health, addiction, sexual assault and suicide.
Episode Pointers:
Take care of yourself. Self-care is all you can truly model for your children.
Everything that crumbles or catapults you into guilt and shame comes from a lack of self care and lack of adult relationships.
There are 5 things a parent can do when their child has spun so completely out of control. They are : sleep, drink water, have healthy nutritious meals, move your body and breathe on purpose.
Without any of these 5 things, your system begins to domino and collapse.
Our desire to avoid the pain is so overwhelming. We will cause more pain in the long term to avoid it in the short term.
We are dealing with solutions, not problems. The focus has been wrong.
You're not gonna get over, you will get on, you will get through, you carry this with you.
Being alone is one of the first signs that you're in an addictive pattern
The hole doesn't go away and you'll learn to live with it.
The healing doesn't mean that the hole has closed.
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