What if the thing that’s actually keeping you stuck… is trying to hold everything together?

In this episode, we talk about powerlessness — not as weakness, but as the beginning of real peace. Because whether it’s addiction, anxiety, control, or just trying to keep everyone else happy… eventually we all hit a point where white-knuckling life doesn’t work anymore.

We get real about:

This one isn’t just for people in recovery. It’s for anyone who’s exhausted from pretending they’re fine.

🔗 Resources Mentioned:

👉 Find a Celebrate Recovery group near you: ⁠https://www.celebraterecovery.com/locator⁠

👉 Find an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting near you: ⁠https://www.aa.org/find-aa⁠

👉 Find a Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meeting near you:

https://na.org/meetingsearch/

👉 Need support for codependency? Check out CoDA: https://coda.org/find-a-meeting/

💬 Let’s stay connected:

Follow us on Instagram → @rootingforyou.podcast 

New episodes every Wednesday. Share this with a friend and don't forget to leave a 5-star rating & review. It helps so much! We're still recovering — and we’re rooting for you. 🖤

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What do you do when someone you love is in active addiction?
Do you leave? Do you stay?
How do you love them without losing yourself?

In this episode, we flip the mic a little. Jay asks Jennifer real, unfiltered questions about what it was like to be the spouse of someone in active alcoholism — before the recovery, before the healing, in the thick of it.

This isn’t a formula. It’s a conversation.
And it’s one a lot of people need to hear.

💬 In this episode, we talk about:

Whether you're walking through this yourself or you love someone who is, this episode offers truth, hope, and real permission to take care of your own heart in the process.

🔗 Resources Mentioned:

👉 Find a Celebrate Recovery group near you: ⁠https://www.celebraterecovery.com/locator⁠

👉 Find an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting near you: ⁠https://www.aa.org/find-aa⁠

👉 Find a Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meeting near you:

https://na.org/meetingsearch/

👉 Need support for codependency? Check out CoDA: https://coda.org/find-a-meeting/

💬 Let’s stay connected:

Follow us on Instagram → @rootingforyou.podcast 

New episodes every Wednesday.Share this one with a couple walking through hard things.We're still recovering — and we’re rooting for you. 🖤

📩 Got a story, question, or just want to say hi? Send us an email at [email protected]

When people hear “step study,” they often think it’s just homework and hard questions.
But for us — and for our friend Will — it became something way deeper:
A safe place to tell the truth.
A space to sit with God and your story.
A process that changed everything.

In this episode, we talk with Will — who went through a full Celebrate Recovery step study with Jay — about what the experience was really like. No fluff. No spiritual sugar-coating. Just real recovery in motion.

In this episode:

We didn’t start recovery at the same time… or for the same reasons. One of us was mandated. One of us was just curious. But we both ended up in the same room — and it changed everything.

In this episode, we talk about what it looked like (and still looks like) to recover together. Not perfectly. Not all at once. But side-by-side — with a lot of honesty, laughter, and grace in the process.

🔗 Resources Mentioned:

👉 Find a Celebrate Recovery group near you: ⁠https://www.celebraterecovery.com/locator⁠

👉 Find an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting near you: ⁠https://www.aa.org/find-aa⁠

👉 Find a Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meeting near you:

https://na.org/meetingsearch/

👉 Need support for codependency? Check out CoDA: https://coda.org/find-a-meeting/

💬 Let’s stay connected:

Follow us on Instagram → @rootingforyou.podcast 

New episodes every Wednesday.Share this one with a couple walking through hard things.We're still recovering — and we’re rooting for you. 🖤

📩 Got a story, question, or just want to say hi? Send us an email at [email protected]

We’re getting honest in this one.

Denial isn’t just the dramatic stuff — it can look like being overly busy, brushing off pain, or telling yourself “it’s not that bad.” In this episode, we unpack what denial actually looks like in everyday life, why it’s often the first barrier to healing, and how we both experienced it in our own recovery journeys.

If you’ve ever said “I’m fine” when you weren’t… this episode’s for you.

👥 In this episode, we talk about:

Before the symptoms… there’s a story.
Before the behavior… there’s a root.

In this episode, we talk about how recovery really begins — not with behavior management, but with honest reflection. We unpack how survival patterns like addiction, codependency, control, and burnout usually start long before we notice them.

This isn’t about blame. It’s about freedom.
You can’t heal what you’re afraid to look at.
But once you trace the root — you can finally stop watering it.

In this episode:

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Email: [email protected]

New episodes every Wednesday
Share this with someone who's doing the deeper work. You're not alone. We're rooting for you. 🖤

Welcome to the very first episode of Rooting for You — a podcast about recovery, marriage, faith, and the messy middle of life.

In this episode, we talk about:

This is for the ones trying to heal while still holding it all together.
You don’t have to fix yourself before you begin.
We’re not experts. We’re just real ones.
And we’re rooting for you. 🖤

🔗 Resources Mentioned:

👉 Find a Celebrate Recovery group near you:
https://www.celebraterecovery.com/locator

👉 Find an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting near you:
https://www.aa.org/find-aa

👉 Need support for codependency? Check out CoDA:
https://coda.org/find-a-meeting/

✨ Stay connected:

📱 Follow us on Instagram: @rootingforyou.pod

📩 Got a story, question, or just want to say hi? Send us an email at [email protected]

🎧 New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe, leave a review, and share with someone who might need this reminder:

“You don’t have to be falling apart to be barely holding it together.”

We’ll meet you there.

Welcome to Rooting for You — real talk on recovery, marriage, faith, and everything in between. We’re Jay and Jennifer, and we’ve walked through the fire together. This isn’t about perfection. It’s about healing. And we’re rooting for you. 🖤