3 Tips On How To Help a Recovering Mother From Any Addiction.

3 Tips On How To Help a Recovering Mother From Any Addiction.

Introduction.

Being a mother can be extremely stressful and lonely at times. Looking after children on your own as many do here in the West, can cause feelings of frustration, hopelessness and despair, because there is just no let up. And tomorrow early, it’ll start up all over again.

Sadly, if mothers feel they are not coping, this can lead to feelings of shame and failure, even depression and anxiety, due to the demands of motherhood, underlined by what a mother thinks and feels is expected of her.

Many also experience a loss of confidence and self-worth, especially if there are relationship or marital problems, you are divorced or if you’re a single parent; if your children are sick, you’re struggling financially; or you struggle with mental health issues, childhood trauma, abuse, and so on.

And this can trigger various types of addiction or indeed, a relapse.

This is why the following 3 tips are important;

1. Find a support group of mothers with similar issues.

Women often hide their insecurities and failures. Yet they are great at supporting one another once they know someone is struggling. This is why support groups that do not judge are important, as they help one another realise that perfection and the ‘you should have everything together’ is just a fallacy, and that all mothers at some point, need emotional and practical support — and help with any addiction.

2. Letting go of unworthiness, guilt, rage, shame, bitterness and resentment.

This sentence is important: You cannot recover, until you know what you are recovering from:

Motherhood and all its varying anomalies are never really fully explained or understood until you experience it. And the shock of what can happen or the stress of what it involves can come as quite a surprise, especially as you cannot go back and cancel motherhood. You have to survive it and some really struggle.

This is also because we are not encouraged enough to heal our past issues or indeed, told that relationships, marriage, divorce and especially having children, will press every…