Morgana Rae: Abuse is NOT Personal
In this episode, Jeff and Morgana discuss:
· Morgana’s story of her experience with addiction through childhood and her teenage years.
· Morgana’s relationship with her parents and sister and how they have continued to affect her into adulthood.
· The need for healthy relationships, even if you have to create them.
· Even when it feels personal, it’s not. It’s a person with a disease and a person in pain, whenever you can, remove yourself from the line of fire.
· The connection with loving one’s self and one’s self and world.
Key Takeaways:
· Our pain humanizes us. Our experience of pain gives us the capacity to respect the experiences of other people.
· Look for the gifts that you learned through someone else’s addiction and the wounds that came from that experience.
· Be willing to set boundaries and hold to them. You deserve that for your own life.
· You can love someone without allowing them to abuse you.
· Fill your life with real, quality relationships everywhere else. Don’t look for something where you aren’t going to get it.
“Her disease is not personal to me at all. It has nothing to do with me. I just happened to be the person in the room. Mom needs a villain, she does, she doesn’t even know who I am. And that takes away a lot of the pain so that I can really love her.” — Morgana Rae
Connect with Morgana Rae:
Website: http://www.morganarae.com/
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