Faith Over Addiction | Biblical Idenity and Boundaries for Loving Someone with Addiction

Tanya sits down with Heather O'Brien — Spirit-led healing coach, author, and host of the Heal with God podcast — for an honest conversation about what happens when you love Jesus, serve faithfully, and still can't shake anxiety, fear, and old cycles of pain. Heather shares her own story, from years of unexplained anxiety and panic attacks to a divine encounter that broke a 10-year stronghold in just five minutes, and unpacks what it actually means to hear God's voice and pray beneath the symptom instead of just at it. If you've ever felt spiritually blocked, stuck despite doing "all the right things," or unsure how to set loving boundaries, this episode offers real, practical steps toward freedom.

Key Talking Points:

• Why prayer, Bible reading, and church attendance don't always lead to deep healing — and what's often missing
• Heather's personal journey through depression, panic attacks, and 7 years of unanswered "why"
• The "Word + Spirit = Truth" framework for discerning God's voice from other voices
• A simple, practical Bible reading approach for people who feel dry or disconnected (the one-year audio plan)
• Praying at "symptom level" vs. getting to the root — Heather's cigarette/addiction story as a case study
• How personal healing ripples out and changes the people around you (the "bed-making" story)
• Reframing boundaries as an act of love, not rejection — and how to discern loving boundaries biblically
• Why isolation is one of the enemy's biggest tools, and the importance of healing in community

Resources Mentioned:

• YouVersion Bible App (one-year reading plans, audio option)
• Galatians 5:22 — Fruit of the Spirit
• 2 Timothy 3:16 — Scripture's role to teach, correct, prepare, equip
• James 5:16 — Confess to one another and be healed
• Romans 12:1 — Worshiping God with your body (sleep, nutrition, sunlight, movement)
• Heather's book, Heal with God (available on Amazon and her website)
• Heal with God Podcast

Link to Share:

Heal with God Workshop (free, live, monthly): http://healwithgodworkshop.com/

Gives listeners a next step for Spirit-led teaching, practical healing tools, and live coaching to apply what they heard in this episode.

Free Gfit : Get this free list of Christian affirmations that spell out who you are in God – actual in God’s own words. Repeat these biblical affirmations and replace these truths with the lies currently in your head! - https://www.tanyagioia.com/affirmations

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Are you caught in the chaos of addiction, constantly cleaning up emotional, spiritual, and physical messes that aren't yours? Welcome to Faith Over Addiction, where faith meets real life. Hosted by Family Recovery Coach Tanya Gioia, this podcast is designed to offer Christian women hope, healing, and practical tools to navigate the challenges of loving someone with addiction.

Through biblical truths, heartfelt stories, and actionable guidance, you’ll learn how to set healthy boundaries, find peace in the mess, and reclaim your God-given identity. You don’t have to carry what was never meant to be yours. It’s time to shift from “this is happening to me” to “this is happening for me,” and let God transform the chaos into something that glorifies Him.

Every week, I’m here to encourage you, offer clarity, and remind you that as a daughter of the King, You Always Have Other Options (YAHOO). Together, we’ll embrace faith as the foundation, boundaries as the bridge to healing, and God’s truth as the ultimate guide to freedom, strength, and grace.

Blessings,

Tanya Gioia 🌸

🎵 Music Credit:

Track: Luz Solart

Artist: Luna Cantina

Album: Luz Solart

Released: 2024

Tanya Gioia sits down with Chris Rogers, a certified pornography addiction recovery coach and former New York City music teacher, for an honest conversation about protecting kids in a hyper-accessible digital world. Chris shares his own journey through addiction and shame into recovery and faith, and unpacks why kids as young as 8 are being exposed to pornography — often through mainstream apps, not "dark corners" of the internet. Together, Chris and Tanya explore the difference between happiness and joy, why shame-based conversations backfire with struggling kids, and how parents can open the door to real, judgment-free conversations before the world does it for them.

Key Talking Points:

Why the average age of first exposure to pornography is now around 8 years old, and how it hides in plain sight on everyday apps (Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube)

The rise in exposure and use among young women (up to 30%) — this isn't just a "boys" issue anymore

Chris's personal story: growing up in church, hiding a secret struggle, and how recovery made room for the Holy Spirit

The "Thank You and Goodbye Letter" exercise Chris uses with clients

Sex vs. intimacy: why the two get blurred, and the exercise Chris uses to help clients define real intimacy

The Coolidge Effect and why novelty drives addictive escalation

Pornography as counterfeit intimacy — pursuing "happiness" (pleasure, novelty) vs. "joy" (innate, God-given identity)

Why leading with shame backfires ("if you lead with shame, they will stay the same") and how to instead make it "you and your child vs. the problem"

Practical first steps for parents: transparency, framing curiosity about sex as normal, and having the conversation early

Guest Bio:

Chris Rogers is a Certified Pornography Addiction Recovery Coach and founder of the Rebooted Teen Program (and its companion Rebooted Teen Parent Program). A former NYC music teacher, Chris draws on both professional training and personal recovery experience to help teens and adults build healthy, values-based relationships with themselves — and helps parents open honest, shame-free conversations with their kids.

Resources & Links:

Website / Free Parent Course: https://www.rebootedteen.com/

Instagram: @rebootedteen

Facebook Community: linked via rebootedteen.com

Free Gfit : Get this free list of Christian affirmations that spell out who you are in God – actual in God’s own words. Repeat these biblical affirmations and replace these truths with the lies currently in your head! - https://www.tanyagioia.com/affirmations

👋🏼 GET IN TOUCH

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Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/tanya.gioia.9/

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Are you caught in the chaos of addiction, constantly cleaning up emotional, spiritual, and physical messes that aren't yours? Welcome to Faith Over Addiction, where faith meets real life. Hosted by Family Recovery Coach Tanya Gioia, this podcast is designed to offer Christian women hope, healing, and practical tools to navigate the challenges of loving someone with addiction.

Through biblical truths, heartfelt stories, and actionable guidance, you’ll learn how to set healthy boundaries, find peace in the mess, and reclaim your God-given identity. You don’t have to carry what was never meant to be yours. It’s time to shift from “this is happening to me” to “this is happening for me,” and let God transform the chaos into something that glorifies Him.

Every week, I’m here to encourage you, offer clarity, and remind you that as a daughter of the King, You Always Have Other Options (YAHOO). Together, we’ll embrace faith as the foundation, boundaries as the bridge to healing, and God’s truth as the ultimate guide to freedom, strength, and grace.

Blessings,

Tanya Gioia 🌸

🎵 Music Credit:

Track: Luz Solart

Artist: Luna Cantina

Album: Luz Solart

Released: 2024

Dr. Ginger Sharp — chiropractor, functional medicine practitioner, and homeschool mom — shares her personal collapse into chronic illness (Lyme disease, mold, parasites, heavy metals) after having her two daughters, and how isolation, pride, and the belief that her value came from her output nearly broke her. She unpacks the physiology of fight-or-flight vs. rest-and-digest, why safety is the first step in healing, and how God met her in her darkest, most depleted moments with the simple truth: "you are enough." Ginger and her husband Dr. Josh now run a functional medicine practice helping women find clarity and order instead of overwhelm — including a new blood panel that maps root causes instead of just symptoms.

Key Talking Points

Chiropractor to bedridden: Ginger's health decline after having her second daughter — brain fog, insomnia, needing the wall to stand

The isolation trap: hiding her illness from family and friends while still working, mothering, and running a business

"You are enough" — the turning point rooted in Psalm 139:14

Fight-or-flight vs. rest-and-digest, explained simply — and why healing can't happen in chronic hypervigilance

Why her husband Josh's patience (not fixing) helped her heal

Pride and hypocrisy: why it's hardest for healers/helpers to admit they're struggling

Practical signals of "unsafe" — clenched jaw, shallow breath, white knuckles — and how to check in with your body

Hidden health costs of chronic hypervigilance: toxin buildup, weakened gut/liver/lymphatic terrain, and how it feeds disease long-term

The new NVX Plus Panel — a functional medicine blood test looking at cellular-level toxins, infections, and metabolic markers

Reframing quality of life vs. quantity of life through faith

Resources & Links

Free health assessment quiz: http://DiscoverHealthquiz.com

Free training (blood panel breakdown): https://events.discoverhealthfm.com/registration-page

Website: http://DiscoverHealthFM.com

Dr. Josh's podcast: Discover Health Podcast with Dr. Josh - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/discover-health-podcast/id1794162942

Free Gfit : Get this free list of Christian affirmations that spell out who you are in God – actual in God’s own words. Repeat these biblical affirmations and replace these truths with the lies currently in your head! - https://www.tanyagioia.com/affirmations

👋🏼 GET IN TOUCH

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Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/tanya.gioia.9/

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Are you caught in the chaos of addiction, constantly cleaning up emotional, spiritual, and physical messes that aren't yours? Welcome to Faith Over Addiction, where faith meets real life. Hosted by Family Recovery Coach Tanya Gioia, this podcast is designed to offer Christian women hope, healing, and practical tools to navigate the challenges of loving someone with addiction.

Through biblical truths, heartfelt stories, and actionable guidance, you’ll learn how to set healthy boundaries, find peace in the mess, and reclaim your God-given identity. You don’t have to carry what was never meant to be yours. It’s time to shift from “this is happening to me” to “this is happening for me,” and let God transform the chaos into something that glorifies Him.

Every week, I’m here to encourage you, offer clarity, and remind you that as a daughter of the King, You Always Have Other Options (YAHOO). Together, we’ll embrace faith as the foundation, boundaries as the bridge to healing, and God’s truth as the ultimate guide to freedom, strength, and grace.

Blessings,

Tanya Gioia 🌸

🎵 Music Credit:

Track: Luz Solart

Artist: Luna Cantina

Album: Luz Solart

Released: 2024

In this episode of Faith Over Addiction, host Tanya Gioia sits down with Sheila Rae Krygsheld — Bible teacher, apologist, and author of What Makes You Say That? How to Study What You Believe So You Can Share It With Others. Sheila opens up about the hardest-won season of her faith: her 17-year-old daughter's traumatic brain injury and the years-long journey through doubt, survivor's guilt, and spiritual exhaustion that followed. She shares candidly on trusting God in the vulnerable, "nothing left" moments, why doubt isn't the opposite of faith but part of it, and how studying Scripture became the anchor that rebuilt her identity in Christ. A raw, theologically grounded conversation on trust, doubt, and the character of God for anyone walking through their own hard season.

Key Talking Points

The origin story — how a viral moment of online division sparked Sheila's mission to help Christians know what they believe and why

The crisis that started it all — her daughter's traumatic brain injury, coma, and recovery, and the "goodness tank" comment from a doctor that sent her into a theological spiral

Survivor's guilt — wrestling with why her daughter lived when a close friend's daughter didn't

"Believe your beliefs, doubt your doubts" — Sheila's framework for handling doubt without losing faith

Doubt as mandate, not option — why every believer will wrestle, and how to do it without shame

The prostrate-on-the-floor moments — total surrender and vulnerability as the doorway to trust

Not anger, but exhaustion — Sheila's honest take on what actually happens when she can't "pick up the book"

The Psalms as permission — reading David's raw, unfiltered prayers back to God

The character of God — filtering hard circumstances through Philippians 4:8

Building a prayer tribe — the practical role of intercessory community in walking through crisis

Resources & Links

Book: What Makes You Say That? How to Study What You Believe So You Can Share It With Others — https://a.co/d/0eXFsgHk

Website: https://sheilakrygsheld.com/ (email list for essays/articles; free ebooks and Bible study coming soon)

Free Gfit : Get this free list of Christian affirmations that spell out who you are in God – actual in God’s own words. Repeat these biblical affirmations and replace these truths with the lies currently in your head! - https://www.tanyagioia.com/affirmations

👋🏼 GET IN TOUCH

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Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/tanya.gioia.9/

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Are you caught in the chaos of addiction, constantly cleaning up emotional, spiritual, and physical messes that aren't yours? Welcome to Faith Over Addiction, where faith meets real life. Hosted by Family Recovery Coach Tanya Gioia, this podcast is designed to offer Christian women hope, healing, and practical tools to navigate the challenges of loving someone with addiction.

Through biblical truths, heartfelt stories, and actionable guidance, you’ll learn how to set healthy boundaries, find peace in the mess, and reclaim your God-given identity. You don’t have to carry what was never meant to be yours. It’s time to shift from “this is happening to me” to “this is happening for me,” and let God transform the chaos into something that glorifies Him.

Every week, I’m here to encourage you, offer clarity, and remind you that as a daughter of the King, You Always Have Other Options (YAHOO). Together, we’ll embrace faith as the foundation, boundaries as the bridge to healing, and God’s truth as the ultimate guide to freedom, strength, and grace.

Blessings,

Tanya Gioia 🌸

🎵 Music Credit:

Track: Luz Solart

Artist: Luna Cantina

Album: Luz Solart

Released: 2024

Episode Description

In this episode of Faith Over Addiction, host Tanya Gioia sits down with Moriah Hagel — author of First and Forever: Singleness in Ephesians, Alignment: God's Will or Mine, and To Live: Finding the Mind of Christ, and co-founder of the Seasons Young Adult Conference. Moriah shares her personal journey of anchoring her identity in Christ through college, a fractured Bible study, family upheaval, and years of watching loved ones struggle with paths she couldn't control. She opens up about the difference between having an identity rooted in doing things for God versus one rooted in knowing Him, and how surrender, trust, and humility — not control — are what carry us through the hardest seasons, including walking alongside people we love who are hurting themselves.

Key Talking Points

• Finding identity in Christ, not in what we do for Him — Moriah's "secret identity" concept: mistaking service/ministry roles for identity itself
• Letting go of trying to fix or control others — the James study (Alignment) and learning "you worry about you, I'll worry about them"
• Man's anger doesn't produce God's righteousness — practical wrestling with wisdom, yielding, and staying pure/peaceable even when you're right
• The Book of Job reframe — trials pass through God's "merciful fingers" first, offering peace in suffering we don't understand
• Trust as a repeated theme — walking through singleness, watching sisters marry, and the loss of a nephew, learning "sufficient is today's trials for today" (daily manna)
• How to apologize without abandoning truth — separating being right from causing pain, and when to stay silent instead

Resources & Links Mentioned

• Hagel Books - https://hagelbooks.com/
• Weekly blog (Thursdays) and YouTube encouragements (Mondays, 7am) - https://www.youtube.com/@hagelbooks
• Seasons Young Adult Conference (co-founded by Moriah) - https://hagelbooks.com/events/

Free Gfit : Get this free list of Christian affirmations that spell out who you are in God – actual in God’s own words. Repeat these biblical affirmations and replace these truths with the lies currently in your head! - https://www.tanyagioia.com/affirmations

👋🏼 GET IN TOUCH

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Are you caught in the chaos of addiction, constantly cleaning up emotional, spiritual, and physical messes that aren't yours? Welcome to Faith Over Addiction, where faith meets real life. Hosted by Family Recovery Coach Tanya Gioia, this podcast is designed to offer Christian women hope, healing, and practical tools to navigate the challenges of loving someone with addiction.

Through biblical truths, heartfelt stories, and actionable guidance, you’ll learn how to set healthy boundaries, find peace in the mess, and reclaim your God-given identity. You don’t have to carry what was never meant to be yours. It’s time to shift from “this is happening to me” to “this is happening for me,” and let God transform the chaos into something that glorifies Him.

Every week, I’m here to encourage you, offer clarity, and remind you that as a daughter of the King, You Always Have Other Options (YAHOO). Together, we’ll embrace faith as the foundation, boundaries as the bridge to healing, and God’s truth as the ultimate guide to freedom, strength, and grace.

Blessings,

Tanya Gioia 🌸

🎵 Music Credit:

Track: Luz Solart

Artist: Luna Cantina

Album: Luz Solart

Released: 2024

Shama Stock has worn many hats — homeschool mom, nutritionist, non-profit administrator, and writer. She is a cyber missionary and founder of Revelation for Kids, a web-based platform sharing insights from Bible prophecy in a simplified way. In this episode, Shama shares her personal story of walking through betrayal in her first marriage and ongoing struggles with media addiction in her second, and how a deep study of the Book of Revelation transformed her fear into hope. She explains why she began writing Bible resources for kids and adults alike, including the picture book ABC: An Adventure Through Revelation and the workbook series Lessons from the Book of Revelation for Kids. Shama and Tanya unpack why Revelation is often avoided or sensationalized, how to interpret its symbols using Scripture itself, and why the ending of the story — not fear — should shape how we read it. She and her husband have two sons and live in Indiana part of the time.

Key Points

• Shama's first marriage ended after discovering her husband's addiction to child pornography; her second marriage involved a different, quieter media addiction
• How lamentation in Scripture (Psalms, David) models honest processing of pain while returning trust to God
• Why Revelation is often skipped or sensationalized in churches — and why that does a disservice to believers
• The "scorpions" imagery in Revelation traced back to Ezekiel, reframing persecution rather than horror
• Using the Bible to interpret the Bible instead of speculation
• The scroll in Revelation 4–5 connected to Old Testament coronation practices and the Book of the Law
• Revelation as a picture of God's character — love, mercy, justice — that "casts out fear"
• Origin story of the ABC picture book and the kids' workbook series (Seven Churches, Seven Seals, Seven Trumpets)
• Free 30-day Read Revelation Challenge for individuals or families

Resources & Links

• Website: https://www.revelationforkids.com/
• Free sample lesson, Bible study shop, and Read Revelation Challenge available on-site
• YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Revelationforkids

Free Gfit : Get this free list of Christian affirmations that spell out who you are in God – actual in God’s own words. Repeat these biblical affirmations and replace these truths with the lies currently in your head! - https://www.tanyagioia.com/affirmations

👋🏼 GET IN TOUCH

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Are you caught in the chaos of addiction, constantly cleaning up emotional, spiritual, and physical messes that aren't yours? Welcome to Faith Over Addiction, where faith meets real life. Hosted by Family Recovery Coach Tanya Gioia, this podcast is designed to offer Christian women hope, healing, and practical tools to navigate the challenges of loving someone with addiction.

Through biblical truths, heartfelt stories, and actionable guidance, you’ll learn how to set healthy boundaries, find peace in the mess, and reclaim your God-given identity. You don’t have to carry what was never meant to be yours. It’s time to shift from “this is happening to me” to “this is happening for me,” and let God transform the chaos into something that glorifies Him.

Every week, I’m here to encourage you, offer clarity, and remind you that as a daughter of the King, You Always Have Other Options (YAHOO). Together, we’ll embrace faith as the foundation, boundaries as the bridge to healing, and God’s truth as the ultimate guide to freedom, strength, and grace.

Blessings,

Tanya Gioia 🌸

🎵 Music Credit:

Track: Luz Solart

Artist: Luna Cantina

Album: Luz Solart

Released: 2024

In this episode, Tanya Gioia sits down with Rev. Rachel Harrison — spiritual coach, ordained minister, and host of the Recover Your Soul Podcast — for a raw conversation about codependency, people-pleasing, and what it really means to feel safe. Rachel shares her own journey through alcoholism, a marriage marked by addiction, and raising sons who struggled with their own battles, and how a 2018 moment of grace led her into recovery, ordination, and eventually her own 9-Step Recover Your Soul process. Together, Tanya and Rachel unpack the difference between trust in people and trust in God, why "self-care" goes far deeper than nails and hair, and how healing yourself ripples out to heal your whole family.

Key Points:

• Rachel's story: codependency, "gray area" drinking, and marrying into traditional alcoholism
• Why she reframes the 12 Steps' "character defects" as protectors of the heart
• The difference between trusting people and trusting God — and why leaning on human trust creates control, not safety
• Letting her son be "entitled to his suffering" — releasing the urge to save her children
• Creating safety in relationships through honesty, not control
• Forgiveness of self as parents, and holding space for adult children's differing memories of the same household
• Overview of the Recover Your Soul 9-Step process, starting with "Ready for Awakening" instead of "powerlessness"

Resources & Links:

• Rev. Rachel's book: Recover Your Soul: A Spiritual Path of Healing Addiction, People Pleasing, and Codependency - https://a.co/d/0c9Lv2g8 
• Podcast: Recover Your Soul - https://www.recoveryoursoul.net/whatisrecoveryoursoul 
• Website: ​​ https://www.recoveryoursoul.net/

Free Gfit : Get this free list of Christian affirmations that spell out who you are in God – actual in God’s own words. Repeat these biblical affirmations and replace these truths with the lies currently in your head! - https://www.tanyagioia.com/affirmations

👋🏼 GET IN TOUCH

💻 Website - www.tanyagioia.com

📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/soberon_purpose/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/tanya.gioia.9/

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Are you caught in the chaos of addiction, constantly cleaning up emotional, spiritual, and physical messes that aren't yours? Welcome to Faith Over Addiction, where faith meets real life. Hosted by Family Recovery Coach Tanya Gioia, this podcast is designed to offer Christian women hope, healing, and practical tools to navigate the challenges of loving someone with addiction.

Through biblical truths, heartfelt stories, and actionable guidance, you’ll learn how to set healthy boundaries, find peace in the mess, and reclaim your God-given identity. You don’t have to carry what was never meant to be yours. It’s time to shift from “this is happening to me” to “this is happening for me,” and let God transform the chaos into something that glorifies Him.

Every week, I’m here to encourage you, offer clarity, and remind you that as a daughter of the King, You Always Have Other Options (YAHOO). Together, we’ll embrace faith as the foundation, boundaries as the bridge to healing, and God’s truth as the ultimate guide to freedom, strength, and grace.

Blessings,

Tanya Gioia 🌸

🎵 Music Credit:

Track: Luz Solart

Artist: Luna Cantina

Album: Luz Solart

Released: 2024

Tanya Gioia sits down with Kelly Cole — publisher, entrepreneur, and 2x #1 best-selling author — for a raw continuation of his testimony. Kelly opens up about the three levels of the Christian walk (salvation, deliverance, healing), the 7-month season he locked himself away with only his Bible and God to break free from sex addiction rooted in childhood trauma, and the stunning revelation that he was subconsciously trying to save his mother through the women he pursued. He shares how surrendering fully to God led to reconciling and remarrying his wife Natasha after a 6-year divorce, what true accountability in marriage looks like, and why intimacy with God comes before intimacy with a spouse. The episode closes with a powerful prayer over listeners walking through addiction, singleness, or marriage struggles.

Key Points:

• The 3 levels nobody explains: salvation → deliverance → healing
• Childhood trauma (molestation, addicted parents) as the root of his sex addiction
• The 7-month isolation process: cutting off triggers, people, social media; protecting "eye gates and ear gates"
• Difference between temptation (from the enemy) and testing (from God)
• Becoming "naked" before God as the doorway to true intimacy
• Holy Spirit revelation: he was trying to save his mother through the women he dated
• Full accountability with his wife — shared passwords, total transparency
• Reconciliation timeline: divorced 6 years, remarried after his 7-month deliverance process
• Marriage as an altar — dying to self as the foundation of covenant love
• Selfishness as addiction's "cousin" and how following Christ's example counters it

Resources & Links:

• Website (book, podcast, courses): https://kellyandnatasha.com
• Courses: Rebuilding Trust After Infidelity, 7 Steps to Becoming One - https://kellyandnatasha.com/product/rebuilding-trust-after-infidelity-mini-course/
• New release: 60-Day Marriage Makeover Devotional - https://a.co/d/01VcAOSE

Free Gfit : Get this free list of Christian affirmations that spell out who you are in God – actual in God’s own words. Repeat these biblical affirmations and replace these truths with the lies currently in your head! - https://www.tanyagioia.com/affirmations

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Are you caught in the chaos of addiction, constantly cleaning up emotional, spiritual, and physical messes that aren't yours? Welcome to Faith Over Addiction, where faith meets real life. Hosted by Family Recovery Coach Tanya Gioia, this podcast is designed to offer Christian women hope, healing, and practical tools to navigate the challenges of loving someone with addiction.

Through biblical truths, heartfelt stories, and actionable guidance, you’ll learn how to set healthy boundaries, find peace in the mess, and reclaim your God-given identity. You don’t have to carry what was never meant to be yours. It’s time to shift from “this is happening to me” to “this is happening for me,” and let God transform the chaos into something that glorifies Him.

Every week, I’m here to encourage you, offer clarity, and remind you that as a daughter of the King, You Always Have Other Options (YAHOO). Together, we’ll embrace faith as the foundation, boundaries as the bridge to healing, and God’s truth as the ultimate guide to freedom, strength, and grace.

Blessings,

Tanya Gioia 🌸

🎵 Music Credit:

Track: Luz Solart

Artist: Luna Cantina

Album: Luz Solart

Released: 2024

What does codependency actually look like — and how is it just as powerful as addiction? In this episode, Tanya sits down with Dr. Sarah Michaud, clinical psychologist, author, and 40-year sobriety veteran, to unpack the real roots of codependency. Dr. Sarah brings her trademark wit and warmth to some deep territory: why caregiving can become controlling, how childhood fear drives adult behavior, and why putting down a substance doesn't automatically heal your relationships. Whether you're in recovery, love someone who is, or just keep finding yourself twisted into a pretzel trying to manage everyone else's feelings — this one's for you.

Key Talking Points

• Codependency defined: focusing on others' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors at the expense of your own — driven by fear, not kindness
• Why caregiving crosses into codependency: when helpfulness is really about managing your own anxiety
• The co-addict and the addict share the same underlying wound — inability to sit with their own feelings
• Childhood survival behaviors that don't translate to adult relationships (the angry dad, the dinner table moment)
• Elizabeth Gilbert's City of Girls insight: "I can drink people like alcohol" — love addiction as a real and recognizable pattern
• Gabor Maté's When the Body Says No — the physical cost of chronically dismissing your own needs
• The pyramid of emotion: rage → anger → sadness → fear → powerlessness — and where faith enters
• How to tell the difference between genuine love and codependent behavior: one is unfolding, the other is urgent
• The shame spiral and how to meet it with compassion: "You're doing exactly what you were trained to do"
• Unrealistic expectations: it's not unreasonable to want a mother — it is unrealistic if she's an active alcoholic
• Tools for recovery: pause-pray-proceed, identify your activation, find the earliest fear memory, practice speaking up in low-stakes situations, name what's happening out loud
• Action step: carve out even 30 minutes a day for yourself — nothing is a 911, even when codependency tells you it is

Resources & Links

• Dr. Sarah Michaud's website: https://drsarahmichaud.com/
• Co-Crazy: One Psychologist's Journey Through Addiction and Codependency — available on Amazon - https://a.co/d/07332AVV 
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeavingCrazyTown with Dr. Sarah and Finn
• When the Body Says No by Gabor Maté - https://a.co/d/02hZIFCs 
• Melody Beattie's Codependent No More - https://a.co/d/061DkBTm 
• Jen Hatmaker's Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire - https://a.co/d/0jdvWPqV

Free Gfit : Get this free list of Christian affirmations that spell out who you are in God – actual in God’s own words. Repeat these biblical affirmations and replace these truths with the lies currently in your head! - https://www.tanyagioia.com/affirmations

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Are you caught in the chaos of addiction, constantly cleaning up emotional, spiritual, and physical messes that aren't yours? Welcome to Faith Over Addiction, where faith meets real life. Hosted by Family Recovery Coach Tanya Gioia, this podcast is designed to offer Christian women hope, healing, and practical tools to navigate the challenges of loving someone with addiction.

Through biblical truths, heartfelt stories, and actionable guidance, you’ll learn how to set healthy boundaries, find peace in the mess, and reclaim your God-given identity. You don’t have to carry what was never meant to be yours. It’s time to shift from “this is happening to me” to “this is happening for me,” and let God transform the chaos into something that glorifies Him.

Every week, I’m here to encourage you, offer clarity, and remind you that as a daughter of the King, You Always Have Other Options (YAHOO). Together, we’ll embrace faith as the foundation, boundaries as the bridge to healing, and God’s truth as the ultimate guide to freedom, strength, and grace.

Blessings,

Tanya Gioia 🌸

🎵 Music Credit:

Track: Luz Solart

Artist: Luna Cantina

Album: Luz Solart

Released: 2024

What does sleep have to do with faith and recovery? More than you'd think. Tanya sits down with Dr. Ben Long to explore the surprising connection between sleeplessness and the character of God — and why your restless nights might be an invitation rather than a problem.

Key Points

• Sleep deprivation is epidemic in medicine, the military, and recovery communities — but the Bible has addressed sleeplessness since the Psalms
• Psalm 127 reframes sleep not as lost productivity, but as a gift God gives His beloved — a direct challenge to hustle culture
• The Psalms trace a full arc: David sleeping amid enemies (Ps. 3), flooding his bed with tears (Ps. 6), and singing for joy (Ps. 150) — sleeplessness is seasonal, not a sign of weak faith
• Dr. Long's concept of "embodied trust" — sleep as a physical act of releasing control to God, practiced repeatedly over time
• Elijah under the juniper tree: God's response to burnout was rest and food, not a rebuke — a model for caregivers and family members in recovery situations
• The Exodus cloak law: God commands that the poor man's cloak be returned so he may sleep — sleeplessness is a justice issue, not just a personal one
• For families affected by addiction: the person using often has no awareness of how their behavior disrupts others' sleep — and caregivers have both the right and responsibility to protect their own rest
• Dreams: scientifically linked to memory consolidation and learning; theologically, a picture of dependence on God for things we cannot control
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) is the gold-standard treatment — Dr. Long's journal integrates its five core rules with scripture, prayer, and journaling
• The five "sleepless night rules": cease before bed and wait to feel sleepy / rise if you can't sleep / connect with God and wait / repeat / resist naps

Resources & Links

• Sleep Habits Journal: Practices, Prayers, and Devotions to Ease Your Sleepless Night — https://thewholeheartedmd.com/sleep-habits-journal/
• Dr. Long's website: thewholeheartedmd.com
• Substack (sleep science + Bible deep dives): https://benjaminlongmd.substack.com/

Free Gfit : Get this free list of Christian affirmations that spell out who you are in God – actual in God’s own words. Repeat these biblical affirmations and replace these truths with the lies currently in your head! - https://www.tanyagioia.com/affirmations

👋🏼 GET IN TOUCH

💻 Website - www.tanyagioia.com

📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/soberon_purpose/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/tanya.gioia.9/

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Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/faith-over-addiction-for-christian-women-navigating/id1438258805

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Are you caught in the chaos of addiction, constantly cleaning up emotional, spiritual, and physical messes that aren't yours? Welcome to Faith Over Addiction, where faith meets real life. Hosted by Family Recovery Coach Tanya Gioia, this podcast is designed to offer Christian women hope, healing, and practical tools to navigate the challenges of loving someone with addiction.

Through biblical truths, heartfelt stories, and actionable guidance, you’ll learn how to set healthy boundaries, find peace in the mess, and reclaim your God-given identity. You don’t have to carry what was never meant to be yours. It’s time to shift from “this is happening to me” to “this is happening for me,” and let God transform the chaos into something that glorifies Him.

Every week, I’m here to encourage you, offer clarity, and remind you that as a daughter of the King, You Always Have Other Options (YAHOO). Together, we’ll embrace faith as the foundation, boundaries as the bridge to healing, and God’s truth as the ultimate guide to freedom, strength, and grace.

Blessings,

Tanya Gioia 🌸

🎵 Music Credit:

Track: Luz Solart

Artist: Luna Cantina

Album: Luz Solart

Released: 2024