What happens when hitting rock bottom becomes the turning point? This episode explores the raw reality of a suicidal blackout and a night in a cell, and how that lowest moment sparked a decision to get and stay alcohol-free. The conversation digs into the belief that some people are simply "born to drink and die drinking" — and why that story can be rewritten. It's an honest look at the isolation that active addiction breeds, the terror of facing yourself sober for the first time, and the quiet moment of choosing to live differently.

From there, the focus turns to what actually rebuilds a life in recovery: leaning on community instead of reaching for a drink, showing up to meetings with the courage to speak your truth, and learning that healing happens when you're seen and heard. The episode also touches on reshaping negative self-talk, reconnecting with identity and heritage, and turning old pain and resentment into purpose. Whether you're cutting back, alcohol-free, or supporting someone who's struggling, this is a reminder that connection — not willpower alone — is what carries you through.

Please note: nothing in this podcast is medical or mental health advice. Always consult your healthcare provider about what's right for you.
The Reframeable podcast is brought to you by the Reframe app. Reframe is the #1 app to help you cut back or quit drinking alcohol. It uses neuroscience to reframe your relationship with alcohol and unlock the healthiest, happiest you. If you're enjoying this podcast, please like, subscribe, and share with those that you feel may benefit from it. If you have a topic you'd like us to cover on the podcast, send an email to [email protected] or, if you're on the Reframe app, give it a shake and let us know what you want to hear.

Join Coach Kevin and Coach Eric Fischer for a conversation about vision — setting an intentional aim for your life instead of drifting into one you never chose. This episode explores why the brain is a goal-seeking machine that reverts to whatever's safe, familiar, or novel — alcohol and other escapes included — when it has no clear direction. The discussion digs into how identity shifts throughout our lives, why the "midlife crisis" is really a vision you never signed up for, and how we inherit our roles and self-image without asking what we actually want.

You'll also get practical tools for getting started: writing down every idea without judging it, starting absurdly small, and noticing what stands out day to day. Whether you're cutting back, alcohol-free, or just curious, this episode is an invitation to get curious, stay open to change, and start defining the life you actually want.

Please note: nothing in this podcast is medical or mental health advice. Always consult your healthcare provider about what's right for you.

The Reframeable podcast is brought to you by the Reframe app. Reframe is the #1 app to help you cut back or quit drinking alcohol. It uses neuroscience to reframe your relationship with alcohol and unlock the healthiest, happiest you. If you're enjoying this podcast, please like, subscribe, and share with those that you feel may benefit from it. If you have a topic you'd like us to cover on the podcast, send an email to [email protected] or, if you're on the Reframe app, give it a shake and let us know what you want to hear.

Join Coach Eric Fischer and Dr. Frank Spinelli—physician, certified health and trauma-informed coach, and author of The Shame Compass—for a deep conversation about the emotion most of us spend our lives trying to outrun.

This episode unpacks the crucial difference between guilt and shame: guilt says "I did something bad" and can move us toward repair, while shame whispers "I am bad" and attaches itself to our identity. You'll learn why that inner voice isn't truly your own, how it gets installed in childhood or through later trauma, and why running from shame never works—because the goal isn't to eliminate it, but to build the literacy to understand what it's trying to tell you.

Along the way, you'll get practical, usable tools: the four P's for staying grounded when you're activated (pause, present, ponder, possibilities), the practice of separating the intellectual voice from the impulsive, childlike one instead of staying fused with both, and the difference between toxic shame and healthy shame that points you back toward your core values. The conversation explores how shame breeds in isolation, why community and service dilute its power, and how naming what we feel—out loud, in the moment—can free us. You'll also hear an honest look at how shame shows up differently around our bodies, our roles, our sexuality, and our sense of provision, and how much of it was handed to us by institutions, families, and culture rather than chosen.

Whether you're working to change your relationship with alcohol or simply want to live with less armor and more authenticity, this episode offers a compassionate, science-informed framework for getting back up after you've been knocked down.

The Reframeable podcast is brought to you by the Reframe app. Reframe is the #1 app to help you cut back or quit drinking alcohol. It uses neuroscience to reframe your relationship with alcohol and unlock the healthiest, happiest you. If you're enjoying this podcast, please like, subscribe, and share with those that you feel may benefit from it. If you have a topic you'd like us to cover on the podcast, send an email to [email protected] or, if you're on the Reframe app, give it a shake and let us know what you want to hear.

Getting to day one can be the hardest part. In this deeply personal episode, Matt, a professional Los Angeles musician, shares how a fifteen-year drinking habit, a DUI, and the loss of his mother converged into one of the hardest seasons of his life—and how he eventually made his way to a sobriety date he chose for himself: January 13, 2025.

This conversation explores what it actually takes to reach day one and, more importantly, how to stay there. Matt walks through the layered support that carried him through detox and early sobriety—medical intervention including naltrexone and other medications, therapy grounded in CBT, and the community he found through Reframe meetings and beyond. From there, the discussion opens into the deeper work of the second year: the searching self-inventory, making amends, and the practice of writing things down to see them clearly instead of letting them swirl in the mind.

Listeners will find a candid look at the "selfish selflessness" of recovery—how caring for yourself first creates the solid ground to show up for others—along with reflections on community as the antidote to addiction, the role of spirituality and staying open to signs, and why the work never really ends. The episode closes with practical takeaways on understanding the problems our behaviors are trying to solve, and the simple power of just starting the thing you keep putting off.

Whether you're working toward your own day one or building a life well past it, Matt's story is a reminder that changing your relationship with alcohol is about so much more than what's in your glass.

The Reframeable podcast is brought to you by the Reframe app. Reframe is the #1 app to help you cut back or quit drinking alcohol. It uses neuroscience to reframe your relationship with alcohol and unlock the healthiest, happiest you. If you're enjoying this podcast, please like, subscribe, and share with those that you feel may benefit from it. If you have a topic you'd like us to cover on the podcast, send an email to [email protected] or, if you're on the Reframe app, give it a shake and let us know what you want to hear.

In this episode you'll get: a working definition of self-care that goes beyond indulgence and rest; why "should," "try," and "all in" are protection mechanisms worth noticing in your own language; the case for meeting yourself where you are (75% today is your 100%) instead of chasing an idealized best; how starting impossibly small — one page, one post, lacing up your shoes — compounds into change you never planned for; and why taking care of yourself first isn't selfish but the thing that gives you capacity to show up for others. Along the way, Kevin shares how a throwaway suggestion from his therapist to "post better pictures" turned one Instagram account into a whole new career, and both coaches dig into how self-care has to evolve as you do — because what worked for you five years ago may no longer fit who you're becoming.

Whether you're cutting back or alcohol-free, this one's an invitation to answer a simple question for yourself this month: how are you going to take care of yourself, even just a little differently?

The Reframeable podcast is brought to you by the Reframe app. Reframe is the #1 app to help you cut back or quit drinking alcohol. It uses neuroscience to reframe your relationship with alcohol and unlock the healthiest, happiest you. If you're enjoying this podcast, please like, subscribe, and share with those that you feel may benefit from it. If you have a topic you'd like us to cover on the podcast, send an email to [email protected] or, if you're on the Reframe app, give it a shake and let us know what you want to hear.

Join Coach Kevin Bellack and Coach Frank Spinelli, MD, one of Reframe's trauma-informed health coaches, for a guest-free deep dive into the medical side of changing your relationship with alcohol. In this episode, they unpack Reframe Med and the growing role of medical interventions in cutting back or quitting drinking.

The conversation centers on naltrexone: what it is, how it works to blunt alcohol's effects by blocking the brain's reward system, and why it's most effective when paired with behavioral change. Kevin and Frank talk through who might benefit, what the research says about combining medication with coaching and community support, common side effects, contraindications, and the important reminder that no medication is a "magic pill." They also explore the different ways people use naltrexone depending on their goals, whether that's going alcohol-free or cutting back.

From there, they look ahead to GLP-1 medications, an emerging area of research for alcohol use disorder, and discuss how these drugs may quiet cravings the same way they quiet "food noise." Along the way, Kevin shares his own honest experience getting started, and the two dig into why tools like medication and AI so often get dismissed as "cheating" rather than embraced as legitimate resources.

Whether or not medication is right for you, this episode offers a clear, judgment-free look at what's available so you can make informed decisions or better support someone you care about.

Please note: nothing in this podcast is medical or mental health advice. Always consult your healthcare provider about what's right for you.

The Reframeable podcast is brought to you by the Reframe app. Reframe is the #1 app to help you cut back or quit drinking alcohol. It uses neuroscience to reframe your relationship with alcohol and unlock the healthiest, happiest you. If you're enjoying this podcast, please like, subscribe, and share with those that you feel may benefit from it. If you have a topic you'd like us to cover on the podcast, send an email to [email protected] or, if you're on the Reframe app, give it a shake and let us know what you want to hear.

 Join Coach Kevin, Coach Eric, and Reframe Coach Maria Thelke for a conversation about healing trauma, building secure attachment, and understanding why we reach for alcohol in the first place. Maria is a trauma-informed relationship and recovery coach who specializes in helping people heal from trauma, build secure relationships, and create lasting change through nervous system regulation and attachment science.

This episode explores what it really means to come back to yourself. The conversation digs into the space between stimulus and response, and how the meanings we assign in that gap can either keep us regulated or send us searching for relief. You'll learn how early experiences shape the way we cope with pain, why our nervous systems can mistake the familiar for the safe, and how "trauma bonds" can drive us back toward what hurts us.
Along the way, the hosts and Maria unpack practical, accessible ideas you can use right away: the power of metacognition and questioning your automatic thoughts, the "language of permission" that quietly gives us license to cross our own boundaries, and the value of spending a week simply observing your patterns before trying to change anything. They also discuss how becoming aware of what repeats in your life — your transitions, routines, and self-talk — can help you rewrite the internal scripts that keep you stuck.

Whether you're just beginning to explore your relationship with alcohol or years into your journey, this episode offers a compassionate look at how awareness, self-connection, and safe support can open the door to real, lasting change.

The Reframeable podcast is brought to you by the Reframe app. Reframe is the #1 app to help you cut back or quit drinking alcohol. It uses neuroscience to reframe your relationship with alcohol and unlock the healthiest, happiest you. If you're enjoying this podcast, please like, subscribe, and share with those that you feel may benefit from it. If you have a topic you'd like us to cover on the podcast, send an email to [email protected] or, if you're on the Reframe app, give it a shake and let us know what you want to hear. 

Join Coach Kevin and Coach Frank as they welcome fellow Reframe coach Teri Katzenberger, a functional health and lifestyle wellness specialist who has been helping people build healthy, whole lives since 2005 and is celebrating 35 years of sobriety. Teri joined Reframe in December 2025 and brings both deep personal experience and a warm, no-nonsense coaching style to the conversation.

This episode explores what long-term recovery actually looks like beyond simply not drinking. The discussion digs into the difference between sobriety and recovery, why service and giving back matter, and the concept of "emotional sobriety"—learning to manage life as it keeps happening. Teri, Kevin, and Frank talk candidly about the hurts, habits, and hangups that hold people back, and how showing up as your authentic self changes everything, both as a coach and as a person working on change.

Listeners will also get practical takeaways on making the most of community meetings: how to handle the chat if it becomes a distraction, why attending meetings outside your own track (whether alcohol-free or cutback) can deepen your growth, and how to stay present and open to learning from others. The episode closes with the debut of the "Spin Doctor" segment, where the coaches tackle the myth of hitting rock bottom, discuss what to expect when trying coaching for the first time, and share the reminder that you never have to suffer in silence or struggle alone.

The Reframeable podcast is brought to you by the Reframe app. Reframe is the #1 app to help you cut back or quit drinking alcohol. It uses neuroscience to reframe your relationship with alcohol and unlock the healthiest, happiest you. If you're enjoying this podcast, please like, subscribe, and share with those that you feel may benefit from it. If you have a topic you'd like us to cover on the podcast, send an email to [email protected] or, if you're on the Reframe app, give it a shake and let us know what you want to hear.

Join Coach Kevin, Coach Frank, and Reframer Arely — a freelance photographer, aspiring novelist, and perfume enthusiast from Los Angeles who found her way to a more present, creative life after realizing she wasn't a moderator.

This episode explores how the simple habit of journaling can become a turning point in changing your relationship with alcohol. The conversation digs into why writing without worrying about grammar, penmanship, or being "graded" opens the door to self-understanding, and how putting thoughts on the page helps you track your own growth over time. You'll hear how creativity and passion that felt blocked can resurface once alcohol steps aside, and why the fear that you need to be altered to make art is a myth.

The hosts also unpack practical, repeatable tools for drinking less or going alcohol-free: playing the tape forward through a craving, building new rituals to replace the old ones, reframing social events and weddings as things you get to experience rather than endure, and using grounding techniques to stay present. There's honest talk about the shame cycle — how the harshest voice is often the one telling you that you're a bad person — and how learning to speak to yourself like you would a friend changes everything. Whether you're cutting back or fully alcohol-free, this conversation is a reminder that clarity, presence, and creativity were there all along.

The Reframeable podcast is brought to you by the Reframe app. Reframe is the #1 app to help you cut back or quit drinking alcohol. It uses neuroscience to reframe your relationship with alcohol and unlock the healthiest, happiest you. If you're enjoying this podcast, please like, subscribe, and share with those that you feel may benefit from it. If you have a topic you'd like us to cover on the podcast, send an email to [email protected] or, if you're on the Reframe app, give it a shake and let us know what you want to hear.

Join Coach Kevin, Coach Eric, and Reframer Nirvana: a married mom of four and artist from South Florida who first came to Reframe simply curious about the science of alcohol.

This episode explores what happens when awareness, not a rock bottom, becomes the turning point. You'll hear about the heavy mental load of constantly counting drinks versus the freedom of taking things one "let's see" at a time, the fear many creatives carry of making art without alcohol, and how cutting back opens up time, presence, and space for what matters most. The conversation also unpacks boundaries as self-respect, choosing relationships that align with your values, releasing shame, and why navigating change—especially with an ADHD brain—takes structure, community, and doing it your way without doing it alone.

The Reframeable podcast is brought to you by the Reframe app. Reframe is the #1 app to help you cut back or quit drinking alcohol. It uses neuroscience to reframe your relationship with alcohol and unlock the healthiest, happiest you. If you're enjoying this podcast, please like, subscribe, and share with those that you feel may benefit from it. If you have a topic you'd like us to cover on the podcast, send an email to [email protected] or, if you're on the Reframe app, give it a shake and let us know what you want to hear.