How to Really Surrender Control

The word surrender is used a lot in the world of addiction. One of the things that always bothered me was that I was constantly being told that I needed to "let go and surrender," but I never really understood how. The word surrender to me means letting go of my emotional investment in a certain outcome. Surrender doesn't mean we stop loving or caring. Another way of looking at how to "let go" is to think about the opposite of surrendering. What's the opposite of surrendering? Controlling.

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How to Really Surrender Control is an episode from Wife of An Alcoholic: Recovery | Loving An Alcoholic | Codependency| Michelle Lisa Anderson by Michelle Anderson.

This episode is 10:55 long.

This episode was published on Mar 1, 2024.

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