E183: The Family of Origin and Overcoming the Wreckage of the Past

Sober Friends

Matt J

Alcohol Free, Alcoholics Anonymous, Recovery, Dry January, Spirituality, Sober, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Sobriety, Sober Curious, Addiction, Religion & Spirituality, 12 Steps

4.2 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Send us a text Our family of origin can be a cause of stress in recovery. That's the case for me. I've had to deal with an unexpected situation around my family of origin this week and I needed my higher power to help me through it. I shared this stress in a way I hope helps you. In this episode, we get vulnerable and discuss how the past can show up in the present and how to deal with it. Steve helps me out in not developing new resentments and how to manage str...

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0:00.0	I'm Matt.
0:00.8	Hey, I'm Steve.
0:01.9	Hey, I'm John.
0:03.2	This is the Sober Friends podcast.
0:05.8	We're here for The Sober Curious, the new guy, and the old timer.
0:10.3	We're here to talk about the stuff anyone looking to live, alcohol-free has to face day to day.
0:15.5	Now we overcame those struggles.
0:17.2	We speak for no 12-step group, but we do try to remain anonymous. And not alone. This is
0:23.1	the sober friends podcast. All right, Steve, I need your help with something. How do I put this in a way
0:30.1	that is not too specific, but specific enough? This is really about family of origin stuff and not letting resentments build.
0:40.1	Growing up, I had a lot of trauma.
0:43.6	And in therapy, I'm working through PTSD.
0:47.0	I'm realizing that I had a lot of PTSD from the family of origin.
0:52.8	And it seems like this continues and sometimes continues beyond the
0:57.0	grave for some of these people. So I had to have this conversation with somebody who I don't have a
1:02.9	relationship with. There was some estate planning stuff that needs to happen. So I needed to have
1:09.4	this conversation with this person or they called me. Actually, I didn't really needed to have this conversation with this person, or they called me.
1:11.6	I actually, I didn't really need to have this conversation. This person wanted to talk to me.
1:17.5	And in the middle of this conversation, they said to me, you know, I never blamed you for the
1:25.3	relationship, right? I never held anything against you. That's what they said. I never held anything against you.
1:28.5	That's what they said.
1:29.1	I never held anything against you.
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