The 12th Step Podcast

Love is a wonderful thing, love is meant to build. It’s meant to protect. It’s not meant to break you or make you suffer. Everyone experiences that in their way, but a good relationship with anyone is one that makes both of you stronger.

In addiction recovery, relationships can often have the opposite effect, even when we really don’t want them to. Here’s the skinny of it: relationships, no matter how great, are also a major source of stress, and they have a higher potential to do harm than they can do good in a person’s journey to recovery.

Tune into our show to hear the story of a couple that are actively working together in recovery.

Join us for a very special discussion about betrayal trauma and how it affects the spouse of an addict, their children, and the relationship between the addict and their spouse coming from the perspective of the spouse of an addict.

Join us for a very special discussion about what setting healthy boundaries mean in a relationship for the spouse and the addict coming from the perspective of the spouse of an addict.

Join us as we respond to listener questions from our Boundaries episode.

Join us for a very special discussion about what being being open, honest, and completed in your addiction means coming from the perspective of the spouse of an addict.

When we could no longer deny the pain that our compulsive sexual behaviors had caused in our lives. Many of us experienced such dramatic consequences as divorce, disease, jail, or financial ruin before seeing that our lives had become unmanageable. Tune in to listen to our discussion and find out if SAA right for you? 

The pain of loss can feel overwhelming, but there are healthy ways to cope with your grief and learn to heal. Coping with the loss of someone or something you love is one of life’s biggest challenges. You may associate grieving with the death of a loved one—which is often the cause of the most intense type of grief. 

Empathy sets a solid foundation for many of our relationships throughout life – whether with family, friends or even colleagues. It also plays an essential role as you continue on the path to long-term recovery and sobriety. At its root, empathy is described as being able to understand and relate to the emotions of others. It bridges the gap between what you’ve learned in a treatment setting and how to recover relationships that may have been hurt during your addiction. Throughout the recovery process, you may experience a wide variety of emotions that leave you feeling vulnerable and exposed. Although learning to express empathy may initially seem challenging, it can be built upon over time as you continue to heal from your addiction.

The fifth step of the 12 step recovery program states that we, “Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.” This vital exercise begins to provide emotional, mental and spiritual relief. Join us as we discuss this invaluable step.

Do you know what the three C's are in addiction and how they can affect your short and/or long term recovery? Tune into this episode to learn what the three C's are, how they affect your recovery, and what you can do to prevent them from wrecking havoc in with yoru addiction.