No Alcohol Needed: The Podcast

We hear people talk about "emotional support", and we know it's important to our sobriety... but what does emotional support actually look like? How can it help? In this episode, we talk with our friends Dan and Liz about how to support one another emotionally as we make our way through sobriety, and through life. One of the hardest parts of recovery is facing our emotions without trying to numb them. One of the greatest tools we can use is leaning on others in our lives to support us as we start facing those emotions and learning how to deal with them. For a lot of us, we come into sobriety having no idea what emotional support is even supposed to look like. Whether it's how to ask for and accept emotional support, or how to give it... we're here to talk about it. 

Listen as Dan explains how he learned to let people be there for him and to let them see his emotions, especially when men risk being seen as weak if they let their emotions show. Julie shares how she overcame feeling like a burden when she needed to reach out to someone for support. You'll hear the group explore the differences in the emotional needs of men and the emotional needs of women. We also discuss empathy, vulnerability, emotional validation, and other types of emotional support.

Steve mentions the "Playing Catch" analogy. You can read more about it on our blog at https://throughtheglassrecovery.com/category/blog/

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In this episode, you'll hear from our friends Debs, Brian, and Antje as we chat with them about rebuilding trust now that we're in recovery - which, we all know, isn't easy to do. Brian shares what he's doing to work on rebuilding trust in his marriage after infidelity. Antje talks about how she found the courage to talk to her husband about an eating disorder, which helped her later when she needed to talk with him about her struggle with alcohol. Steve talks about how he's seen the trust rebuilding in his relationship with his kids, and Julie tells us how she learned that before you can ask someone else to trust you, you need to be able to trust yourself. The group also talks about how to trust the decision to quit drinking. 

In their debut episode, Steve and Julie explain the premise of Through the Glass Recovery Podcast. They share some of their own stories, providing a background for listeners before diving into the content in the official episodes. Find out what to expect, and how Through the Glass Recovery Podcast can help you gain more momentum in your own recovery.

Steve mentions the I Am Sober app and community. More information about the app can be found at iamsober.com

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