Ervin and Sarah continue their discussion on addiction and mental health for Mental Health Awareness Month. Ervin shares his journey with alcoholism and depression, while Sarah talks about her experience with mental health medication while drinking. This episode's scripture is 2 Timothy 1:7.

Sarah is joined today by special guest co-host Anika Cooper, of Full Circle Interventions, to discuss her journey through recovery, God as her first true love, and how God can help overcome the shame of addiction.

On this episode, Ervin and Sarah explore how suffering can put you in the state of mind to seek recovery and treatment, how God can speak to you through suffering, and share some intimate memories of their recovery process and how suffering lead them down the right path.

On this episode, Ervin and Sarah share how their culture influenced both their addiction and their recovery. Ervin speaks on his experience recovering from alcoholism as a black man and how his culture impacted his addiction, and Sarah explores what it was like to be a Hispanic woman with an addiction and how being the first in her family to seek help has positively influenced the people around her.

On this episode, Ervin and Sarah share how God can reach out and speak to you even during the darkest of times and discuss their personal journeys returning to the Lord in the face of addiction. God's love for us is so strong that he calls to us at our lowest to bring us to the place we should be, and because of this, we should NEVER lose hope.

Hosts Ervin Lee and Sarah Oliveira-McDonald are back in a brand new studio to continue their conversations about addiction, recovery, and faith. They discuss how people can turn addiction into a false god that controls their life and how to turn back to the righteous path and find glory in God.

Brian talks to discipline in sobriety.

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Sarah, Scott and Ervin talk work life balance when dealing with addiction.

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Scott and Amy Jo talk about being married to someone in recovery.

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Anika sits down with Ervin and Sarah to busts the myths associated with trauma work.

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