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Recovery for Parents Dealing with Addiction in their Families

# Self-Care, Guilt, Blame and Addiction

October 9, 2025 by Dave Cooke

Today’s guest, Angie Geren, discovered the power of self-care and self-love on her own journey. Having lived with addiction, abuse and personal self-loathing, she discovered how to value, appreciate, and celebrate who she was and is. Many parents go through the experiences of guilt and shame as they wrestle with the choas of a child’s addiction. It only when they begin to take care of themselves in the simplest of ways, to quit assigning themselves blame for the situation, and begin to grow from those behaviors do they find the strength and the courage to manage the issue differently and celebrate their lives.

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Filed Under: Addiction Conversation Podcast
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