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Podcast: Busting Addiction and Its Myths
Episode: Are You Wasting Your Energy?
Description: This article is entitled "Are You Wasting Your Energy?" and it covers the following topics as we discuss the futility of trying to change the trajectory of someone else's addiction. We have learned that, speaking for the family member who loves an addict:Addiction has had a far more powerful effect than we realized. It denied us any sense of normalcy and dealt out punishment that, ironically, we inflicted upon ourselves.All of our energy is wasted on a hopeless endeavour until there is nothing left over for attending to our own needs. Instead of giving o...