In this special episode of the IGNTD Recovery podcast, I’m bringing my first guest on the show: Dave, from the Dopey Podcast. This won’t be your average interview. Our conversation today focuses on what it can mean to open up the conversation around addiction. I want you to keep an open mind in terms of what’s possible in a recovery context. There’s no failure in relapsing, abstinence does not equal better, and there are a multitude of doors one can take on their path to recovery.

Today we’re going to talk a lot about coming together as a family and the work that it takes to do that. We discuss the tools, the effort, and the time you have to put in. And our amazing guest today, Ashley Graber, is the perfect person to discuss this with.

Almost all the people that have ever sought help through me are almost always driven by relationships. Whether that be your mom, your daughter, your co-worker, or your significant other, they will generally be the first person to push you towards treatment — sometimes even with an ultimatum. It’s the desire of the “addict” to seek help in order to save or fix this relationship.

This episode is all about hormones! We have an amazing expert joining us to speak all about hormones — from the role they play in our body to the impact they have on our overall health. Dr. Felice Gersh is a physician who is both Board Certified as an OB/GYN and fellowship-trained in Integrative Medicine. She has been practicing medicine for several decades, originally starting out a lot more conventional.

Anyone can beat their addiction. There’s this phrase, “Once an addict, always an addict.” But what do they mean? For most people, their life struggles create their addiction. So are we really saying that if someone is struggling in their life right now, they will always struggle? What if we flipped the script and stopped labeling those seeking recovery as addicts?

Today we’re talking about sex — our own journey as well as our tips and insight into how you can better approach the conversation around sex and intimacy with yourself and your partner. We believe that it’s really important that you get to know yourself and figure out exactly what you need, have the amount of sex your body craves, and be able to connect sexually with your partner through intimate conversations.

This week on the IGNTD Recovery podcast, I let you in on some of the secrets that separate the IGNTD Recovery method from other methods of recovery from addiction. The focus that everybody puts on quitting (or on abstinence) is actually causing more failure than success. It’s causing more addicts to lie, overdose, relapse, and no longer continue to seek a course of treatment.

Today we’re talking about rituals, inspired by our recent birthday-filled weekend getaway. Sometimes the connection between you and your partner can be stifled with the addition of other little humans that need attention. So recently, we had to shed some layers back, rejuvenate, and cleanse. Speaking of, we have Lan Belinky on the show today to talk about another type of ritual (that involves lots of rejuvenation and cleansing): skin care!

Welcome to the IGNTD Recovery Podcast — a new way forward for anyone looking for answers, but feeling left out. If you’ve been searching for empowerment, triumph, and purpose — you’ve found them all right here. You won’t hear the same solutions and you’re not going to have any excuses to fall back on because IGNTD Recovery allows heroes to rise and become their best selves.

Sophie and I never imagined we would talk to a goat farmer on this podcast, but today we get the chance to do just that! Dana Derricks is an entrepreneur, author, speaker — and of course, a goat farmer.