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Addiction

Stories and advice on loving an addict, dealing with family addiction, and healing from addiction.

If you love an addict

How to Survive a Breakup with an Addict and Heal Your Heart

How to Love an Addict (Who Doesn’t Love Themselves)

5 Things I Wish I Did When Dating an Addict

When You Love an Addict: Stop Enabling and Help Yourself

Family addiction

How My Mother’s Alcoholism Shaped Me and How I’m Healing Now

How to End the Cycle of Addiction in Your Family

My Life with an Alcoholic Parent (and 6 Addiction Myths)

We Get to Define Our Experiences and Decide What We Take from Them

The Antidote to Shame: I Know I Am Enough

Healing from addiction

Why Speaking My Truth Is the Cornerstone of My Recovery

How and Why I Stopped Binge Drinking

Why I Drank, How It Destroyed Me, and How I’m Healing My Self-Hatred

Overcoming the Painful Desires and Beliefs That Feed Addiction

Loving Yourself Through Addiction and Relapse: Be Patient with the Process

How I Stopped Chasing Highs and Self-Destructing

The Importance of Finding and Standing in Our Truth

I’m Not Broken, and Neither Are You

6 Secrets to Moving On From Serious Struggles

What I Did to Survive: Not Proud but I Forgive Myself

The Hardest Person to Be Honest with Is Yourself

Escaping Escapism: From Drinking to Scrolling to Being Present

Celebrating Six Years Sober: Here’s How I Did It

How I Healed from Addiction One New Belief at a Time

181 Days Teetotal (And Counting): All I’ve Gained Since I Stopped Drinking

How Getting Sober Healed My Dating Life (When I Thought It Would Ruin It)

One Missing Ingredient in My Recovery and Why I Relapsed

How I Got Sober and What I Now Know About the Impacts of Alcohol

Addiction Is Messy, But These Things Help Me Stay Clean

The Profound Joy That’s Possible on the Other Side of Addiction

10 Reasons Why I Ditched the Drink & What Happened When I Quit Alcohol

The Fascinating Reason We Sabotage Ourselves and Hold Ourselves Back

How to Get Through Your Darkest Days: Lessons from Addiction and Loss

Other addictions

Loving Yourself When You’ve Become Addicted to Self-Improvement

Why I Was Addicted to Attention, Lies, and Drama

Attached to Your Smartphone? How to Break the Addiction

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