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Letting Go of People: The Hardest Step

13 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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Amber Hollingsworth (speaker) addresses the difficulty people face letting go of toxic or negative relationships during addiction recovery. She states that many clients fear ending relationships more than giving up substances; these persistent relationships often pull people back into relapse despite periods of abstinence.

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One of the hardest parts is the relationship piece. In fact, I find a lot of people have more fear and ambivalence and difficulty letting go of the relationships than they do of the substances. I've worked with a lot of people who. They're ready to let go of whatever the addiction is, and they do for periods of time, but they keep falling back because usually it's one or two negative influence or toxic kind of relationships. It's like they're having trouble letting go of the relationships and it keeps pulling them back over and over again.