The traditional definition of addiction labels you with a permanent disease if you match certain specified symptoms. It never looks at what is going on with the person or acknowledges that it is a behavior that you choose. 
Join Marilyn Bradford and Marnie Barranco as they discuss what else is possible with addiction beyond what you have been told.
​Listen on Spotify here
Find out more about Marnie Barranco here

Beyond being a victim and powerless to anything - The next instalment albeit a year later, from Anne Clarke and Marilyn Bradford discussing the hierarchy of labels and recovery from the addiction to story and trauma drama. 

Do you know you live with someone who’s an addict, but feel at a loss about how to deal with them?  Have you tried conventional approaches but can’t make them work for you?

If you are around an addict, you are likely to feel and act in the following ways: (Questioning what you know to be true)
1. Agreeing to and with things you wouldn’t normally agree to.
2. Helping others out of jams or difficulties they have clearly created for themselves.  This can extend to lying for them or doing other behaviors you would not normally engage in.

Marilyn was interviewed on Energy TV with Amy Williams.  Listen to the replay below: