Podcast

This episode is going to be a little bit different. I had another topic scheduled for this week, but I want to talk about dealing with difficult moments that life deals us when we get sober.   This is very fresh for me as someone I love very much had a massive loss in...

The inability of people in recovery to establish and set healthy boundaries is one of the biggest struggles I see with people when they are building their new lives. In fact, this is the method I see most people trying to set boundaries which is exactly what I did for...

One of the hardest shifts I see people in recovery make is becoming someone who believes in themselves.  It makes perfect sense early in recovery.  Most of us while in active addiction have years of making really bad decisions and likely were not someone who can be...

Most people don't have a plan for getting sober and simply try to wander through life.  They just decide one day today is the day to get sober.  They might kind of know where they want to go, but do not have directions on how to get there.  They simply wander around...

When you try to change everything at once, you will get overwhelmed, you give up,  and nothing ends up changing.  So how much should we change at the beginning, and how do we pick and choose what to change?

In this episode, I want to talk about whether you need to give up your old friends and other things in your life when you get sober. I know many people struggle with giving up the people, places, and things that existed in their old life. One of the most common...

Today we are going to talk about the biggest mystery in recovery that almost all of us alcoholics have tried to solve.  I believe people have been trying to solve this riddle since the first time someone figured out how to brew alcohol.  And that mystery is: Is it...

One of the more common questions I see on various recovery forums online is “Can I get sober without AA?”  Having spent several years in the beginning of my sobriety in AA and watching the majority of people that come through the doors not stay sober, I have to wonder...

How many times have you heard or even said something like this? Today I lost my job and don’t know how I am going to pay my bills.  I am not sure I can get through this without having a drink.  When we have that mindset, we set up conditional sobriety on the...

re you planning on doing a new years resolution? Maybe you are still struggling with your recovery journey and this is the year you want to get and stay sober. Maybe you have put together some sobriety time, yet are not satisfied with some other areas in your life,...

In this episode, I want to talk about what to do if you just relapsed. Most of the focus around relapse is through relapse prevention methods and with that focus we tend to think all is lost if we did actually relapse. I think the biggest thing you can do for relapse...

In this episode, I want to talk about how our identities based on our past is often holding us back from our greatest potential in recovery and life. So much of our identity when we get sober is based on what we think we are not capable of achieving. We start picking...