Sober But Still Trapped in Self-Will : The Self-Centeredness That Outlasts the Alcohol
Getting sober doesn't automatically make you a good person. Remove the alcohol or the drugs and you're left with the same wiring — the self-centeredness, the main-character syndrome, the 100 forms of ...
2 Jul 26min
Relapsing After 11 Months, Sober Motherhood & 14 Years in Recovery — Co-Founder of Generation Women
She had 11 months sober — then relapsed over an argument she'd only ever had in her own head.Jen returns to the show to walk through what came next: eight months of counting drinks, sneaking drinks, a...
30 Jun 1h 3min
The Masks We Wear in Recovery | Borrowed Wisdom Pt. 2 : Earl H, The Path to Freedom
This is Part 2 of Borrowed Wisdom: Earl, "The Path to Freedom." Earl is one of my all-time favourites in recovery. I pulled the quotes that hit hardest and reflected on each one from my own experience...
25 Jun 34min
Loving an Alcoholic: Both Sides of the Same Story From Addiction to Recovery
Some recovery stories are told from one side. This one isn't.Chloe lived the alcoholism. Andrew loved her through it — and watched both the addiction and the recovery up close. In this episode they si...
23 Jun 50min
Why Sobriety Stopped Feeling Like a Win: The Emotional Sobriety Plateau Nobody Warns You About
Nobody warns you that sobriety can stop feeling like a win.They warn you about the cravings, the first 30 days, the holidays. Nobody tells you about the Tuesday — a couple of years in — when the chips...
18 Jun 19min
The One Cause of Every Resentment, Every Lie, and Every Defect | Borrowed Wisdom #1 Bob D
This is the first in a new series — Borrowed Wisdom — where I share the greatest recovery speaker tapes that saved my life. Every resentment I've ever had came from fear, and a speaker named Bob D bro...
16 Jun 27min
"Sorry" Stopped Working: How I Actually Made Amends in Recovery
I said "I'm sorry" so many times in my addiction that the word stopped meaning anything. All words, no action — guilt with a better vocabulary. In this solo episode I get into the difference between a...
13 Jun 18min
The Diary of a Recovering Drug Addict : Thoughts That Keep Me Sober
10 unfiltered thoughts from my morning journal on staying sober, comparison, peace over happiness, and the war that's really with myself.At a year and a half sober again, I sat down with my morning jo...
11 Jun 23min
