The growth process can be a lonely place. You're working on yourself and trying to improve, but it's hard to do that if you don't have support from your partner. What happens when the people closest to you are not supporting your recovery? What happens when they aren't willing or able to put in the effort needed for their own healing? When a partner decides to get real about their destructive behaviors and begins the work of growth and change, they may find that their partner isn't as willing to make changes in order to support them.

In todays episode of The Recovery Junkies, Carlos and Chris discuss how we can start making positive changes together so that our relationships stay strong through our journey of healing and growth. In addition, we also discuss the struggle partners face, how they can get support, and feel empowered as individuals, while also helping them navigate this difficult time with their loved one who is struggling with addiction.

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It's time to talk about acceptance again!

Even the Recovery Junkies struggle with the word “acceptance.” It sounds like we should just give up and resign ourselves to a life of misery. But that's not what acceptance is about at all! We need acceptance in order to live in reality.

Acceptance enables us to accept what is happening rather than reacting against it with anger or withdrawal; instead, we can calmly face the situation and respond appropriately. Acceptance means acknowledging that something happened (rather than denying or distorting it), feeling whatever emotions are appropriate without becoming overwhelmed by them, and then responding adaptively rather than reactively.

In this episode Carlos and Chris enjoy a discussion about what happens when we become free from unnecessary pain and suffering and experience greater well-being and peace of mind through the act of accepting what we cannot control. Enjoy another episode of The Recovery Junkies.


Darlene Lancer's article on medium.com: "Paradoxically, Acceptance Creates Change."
https://medium.com/becoming-you/acceptance-suggested-by-the-serenity-prayer-prepare-us-for-change-7c0c99d04309

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Can't control your emotions?

We’ve all been there, right?

We find ourselves in that place where we have a really hard time expressing what’s going on inside our head. We let those feelings fester and ruminate and get to the point where we simply have had enough! And we typically end up in one of two scenarios - lash out or shut down.

There are so many reasons why expressing your feelings can be difficult, but there are also some things we can do to make this easier for ourselves and those around us. In this episode, we want to talk about our negative feelings - more specifically how we can express those negative feelings in healthy ways.

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Welcome back to Season 3 of The Recovery Junkies! We're kicking off this season by diving into our past and exploring how it influences our present experiences.

By understanding where our behaviors came from, we can begin to see why things keep happening over and over again. Once we understand why these unhealthy patterns keep showing up, then we have a chance at breaking them once and for all!

In this episode we share about the ways we have experienced our past influencing our present, how that has affected us and how each of us has an opportunity to choose something different from our default pattern of self-sabotage every time we find ourselves “back there again."

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In this next episode of our summer series, we draw from the impeccable comedic talents of Bob Newhart, in a 2001 sketch from MadTV titled, "Just Stop It!" The clips speak for themselves, but as always we draw on why they were so impactful, funny, and real to us.

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Happy summer everybody!

While we prepare for season 3 of The Recovery Junkies, we decided to come together and record a few mini episodes. This summer series will callback a few of our television and film references from past episodes and break them down to share why they were so impactful, funny, and real to us.

In our first miniature episode, Carlos and Chris discuss The Opposite, an episode from the hit 90's sitcom, Seinfeld.

Please enjoy another episode of The Recovery Junkies!

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Seinfeld Episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rag0Z1nTJOc&t=63s

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All good things must come to an end, and this episode is our season 2 finale! In a year filled with so much uncertainty and remote everything, the Junkies are extremely grateful to finally be sitting around a table together for the first time since before March 2020 when the pandemic changed all our lives.

In this episode, we reflect on the year apart, share some of our favorite moments from this past season, what we are learning in the process, and what’s to come for season 3!

Thank you to our listeners for such amazing feedback and for faithfully listening to each episode. Enjoy this season 2 recap of The Recovery Junkies!

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In this episode of The Recovery Junkies, we discuss some of the long lasting effects coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic. We look at how the pandemic has psychologically and emotionally drained us, physically weakened us, spiritually broken us, and socially isolated us.

Listen in as we all five Junkies share their personal stories and experiences from this past year in the form of a group check in.

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On today's pod, we introduce a concept called "couple shame." We discuss what happens when the individuals in a relationship (red & blue) feel shame about the collective parts (the purple) of the relationship. The “purple” has a combined “us story.”

Join us as we break down the the shame couples often have about their "us story." How is this shame defining the relationship?
What does it say about us as a spouse, as parents, and much more?

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In today's episode, the Junkies concluded their three part series about how frustrating life can be when we are trying to live life, only to be sabotaged by the parts of us that never matured, and that have great influence on the decision making in adulthood.

In the final part of this multi-episode series, the Junkies focus on hope for the future. Hope requires risk, which when we begin to see change, gives us faith to risk again and again.

We can get out of our "stuckness!"

We can grow day by day!

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