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September 12, 2018

Letting Go

If you’re suddenly hearing Elsa singing “Let it go, let it go” in your head right now, don’t worry, I hear it too! (You’re not going mad) Unlike the fabled Disney fairytale, Frozen, addiction is a cold hard reality firmly set in the real world. As much as we’d love to wave a magical wand

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September 12, 2018

Enabling vs Helping

Last week we focused a little more on the addict and how they condition others through manipulation to maintain their toxic lifestyles. This week we are shifting back to the family unit again. So, just to refresh the mind let’s remember what enabling is… Enabling is a means by which someone facilitates a person’s addiction

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September 12, 2018

Conditioning

Enabling is very much a give and take cycle. The direction of negative and positive interaction flows in both directions just as they do in any relationship. We need to arm ourselves with knowledge so that we can better perceive the negative actions that keep enabling cycles alive. Often the addict will deceive and manipulate

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September 12, 2018

Are you Enabling

Last week we learned that there are two types of ways we can help our loved ones in addiction. One is by enabling (negative) and the other is by empowering/helping/supporting (positive). Enabling is any behaviour that helps to facilitate another person’s addiction. Enabling makes it possible for the addict to continue acting out in self-defeating

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September 12, 2018

Enable < Empower

In the past few weeks we took you through the foundations of recovery, the 12 Steps of Narcotics Anonymous. During the next couple weeks, we are going to unpack and discuss a very important aspect in addiction – enabling. What is enabling? The Oxford English dictionary tells us that the verb “enable” means to… 1.

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