In this episode, Jackie talks about moving beyond sobriety into optimal recovery.  Often this is a lifelong process.  A corrective emotional experience is required for previous traumatic or dysfunctional critical events that were maladaptively processed and resulted in addiction or other coping mechanisms.

Episode 187: Optimal Recovery

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In this episode Jackie talks about compartmentalization and how it can be both an effective coping mechanism and can also become problematic.

Episode 0271: Compartmentalization

In this episode, Jackie and Rachel continue their series of episodes focused on intimacy.  In this episode, we talk about how certainty and predictability are barriers to intimacy.

Episode 270: Certainty and Intimacy

In this episode, Jackie and Rachel discuss disordered intimacy.

Episode 269: Disordered Intimacy

In this episode, Jackie talks about triggers.  She talks about what triggers are and how they get talked about incorrectly.

Episode 268: Triggers

In this episode, Jackie talks about the importance of facing our pain and allowing the sadness to guide our healing.

Episode 187: Optimal Recovery

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