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Gail Ferguson Jones is a recovering codependent and host of the podcast "The Buttrfly Effect" (no "e"), which is for families of addicts. She shares her experience having grown up with multiple generations of alcoholism and being married to an alcoholic.\xa0

Gail dropped all kinds of pearls of wisdom on this show. Here are just a few gems.

• \u201cThis is why [codependence is] also called co-addiction. Even though I didn\u2019t have a drinking problem, I was sharing in all the chaos and dysfunction that went with it.\u201d
• \u201cThe pain is always the thing that makes us rethink\u2026pain is a good thing, because otherwise I wouldn\u2019t have changed.\u201d
• \u201cHE wasn't making me lose myself, I surrendered MY OWN power. It took a few years and a diagnosis of PTSD, that turned things around for me.\u201d
• "When we prioritize [their drinking and behavior], it\u2019s because we\u2019re concerned with what other people are going to think if I abandon him now\u2026or 'she has this great life, what\u2019s the matter with her?'"

Here's a link to Gail's podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/buttrfly-effect-podcast/id1518404338

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