The Four Agreements & Recovery: Words, Resentment, Doing Your Best
The Four Agreements, read through a recovery lens — words, resentment, assumptions, and doing your best.A quiet 1997 book that keeps showing up in the rooms, even though it wasn't written for them. I ...
6 Aug 18min
Ego Is the Enemy | How Self-Centeredness Drives Relapse — and What Beats It
The thing that almost killed me and the thing keeping me sober are the same voice: ego.In this solo episode I break down ego the way it actually shows up in recovery — not the loudmouth cliché, but th...
4 Aug 16min
The Recovery Skills That Quietly Fixed the Rest of My Life
The thing that kept me sober turned out to be the thing that made me better at being a person.Recovery isn't just about not using — it's a full retraining in how to be a human being. Most of us don't ...
1 Aug 16min
The Consequences of My Addiction — 10 Lessons I Learned the Hard Way
Money, cars, a house — all recoverable. Your health and your life aren't. That's one of ten lessons I pulled from the consequences of my addiction.Before I get into them: if you hear one of these and ...
30 Jul 19min
7 Unpopular Recovery Opinions I'll Probably Get Hate For
Sober and bitter isn't recovery — it's the same disease in a suit. That's opinion #1, and there are six more.After 11 years in and around recovery — including a relapse at seven and a half years and a...
28 Jul 13min
Your Feelings Are Real — But They're Not Reality | Emotional Sobriety
Your feelings are real — but they're not reality. That's the line that reframed how I do recovery, and it's the heart of today's Borrowed Wisdom.I'm reading the highlight quotes from one of my favouri...
23 Jul 22min
When Someone in Your Circle Relapses: Fear, Grief, and How to Actually Help
What do you do when someone close to you goes back out? In this solo episode I talk through what it's actually like when someone in your circle relapses — the fear, the grief, the guilt, and the relie...
21 Jul 16min
He Flipped His Car 10 Feet From a Family's Bedroom | Getting Sober After a DUI
Joe got laid off in July, ended up in a trap house by the weekend, and figured he had the summer off. By September he had a DUI, a car that had flipped twice and landed ten feet from a family's bedroo...
16 Jul 1h 2min
