Katie and Chris Bowick join me to share the story behind Coloring Outside the Lines, their dual-perspective memoir about addiction, recovery, marriage, and redemption.

We talk about what happens when one person is struggling with addiction while the other becomes consumed by fear, vigilance, and the need to hold everything together.

They open up about rebuilding trust, finding support outside traditional recovery models, and learning to honor two truths at once.

This conversation is a powerful reminder that healing is rarely neat or linear, and that sometimes the gray areas offer the honesty, freedom, and compassion we need most.

Highlights:

(00:42) - Writing the book on addiction and recovery they couldn’t find

(10:10) - Destigmatizing addiction through new jargon

(12:58) - Plant medicine for healing substance abuse

(11:30) - Chris on addiction, rehab, and wanting Katie to feel seen

(19:42) - Finding faith and healing beyond traditional recovery path

(27:46) - Katie’s ugly truth managing Chris’ addiction

(35:20) - The hidden trauma of loving someone through addiction

(43:50) - What it means to heal inside “the gray”

(48:36) - The beliefs they would want their younger selves to release

Additional Links;

Buy Coloring Outside The Lines: A Love Story in the Gray of Addiction, Recovery, and Redemption on Amazon

Visit LoveThroughTheGray.com for more info on Katie & Chris’ additional support, offers, and to contact them for speaking.

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