Worth Recovery

By Recovering Amy

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Worth Recovery is about dispelling shame and building hope in the lives of women recovering from sex addiction. Amy shares the experiences of women in recovery to help you build hope & recovery!

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Episode 165: Women's Storie...

09.28.2020

What an amazing opportunity to have Kristal Garcia on the podcast! I was inspired by her radical self-love and forgiveness. I was challenged by her confidence and boldness. I was changed by her story. Every time I hear the story ...

Worth Recovery episodes:

09.28.2020 Episode 165: Women's Stories Series: Kristal What an amazing opportunity to have Kristal Garcia on the podcast! I was inspired by her radical self-love and forgiveness. I was challenged by her confidence and boldness. I was changed by her story. Every time I hear the story ...
09.08.2020 Episode 164: Tending to Our Emotions Emotions. They are beautiful and make us human AND they are difficult and can make us fearful. In this episode I share with you a recent problem I had with tending to my own emotions. I hope you take some ...
07.13.2020 Episode 163: Women's Stories Series - Rosario I love having guests on the podcast. I love it even more when they are women sharing their own recovery journey. Rosario is a brave young woman sharing her battle with sex and love addiction. She discusses her struggle with ...
06.24.2020 Episode 162: The Connection Crisis Connection is such a necessary part of life. Yet, for so many reasons it feels scary and unsafe. With everything else going on the world right now - pandemics, civil unrest, social distancing, protests, etc. - connection is every more ...
04.27.2020 Episode 161: Privilege, Pandemic & Pacing There is a whole lot going on right now. As we grasp for information we don't have a whole lot of expectations are being put on us and how we should be responding to this pandemic. Truth is we're living ...
04.21.2020 Episode 160: Women's Stories - The Grace Spot Alice Taylor is the author of "Restored: A Women's Guide to Overcoming Pornography", a book full of amazing, practical tools to help you in your recovery. She generously agreed to share her story with us as part of our Women's ...
04.17.2020 Episode 159: Your Moment of Free Fall Free Fall is an opportunity to reorganize your life really quickly. In a matter of moments/days/weeks things can look really different. At least it has the potential to. But we must look at falling with intentionality and not fear. In ...
04.13.2020 Episode 158: Lockdown Loneliness How many days have you been alone in your house? Or at least felt alone, whether you actually were or not? Have you struggled with loneliness during other times in your life? Me, too. In this episode, I share my ...
04.08.2020 Episode 157: Women's Stories: Natalie, Pt. 3 In the conclusion of Natalie's story, we hear more about her recovery journey, the groups she attended, the problems she has faced in finding help, as well as more about her current relationship. Each time I hear stories of others ...
02.13.2020 Episode 156: Women's Stories: Natalie, Pt. 2 Part 2 of Natalie's Story: Another brave woman coming forward to share her story! I'm always so honored when women are willing to share their story with us! Natalie is from the UK and is an amazing trauma survivor and ...
02.02.2020 Episode 155: Women's Stories: Natalie, Pt. 1 Another brave woman coming forward to share her story! I'm always so honored when women are willing to share their story with us! Natalie is from the UK and is an amazing trauma survivor and recovery addict. I've had the ...
01.30.2020 Episode 154: The Boundary Box I have a love/hate relationship with boundaries. At least, I used to. Boundaries are what keep us safe. Having good boundaries can be life changing. We never really know just how life-changing until we start to live with good boundaries. ...
01.13.2020 Episode 153: Leveling Your Behaviors It's a new year, it's close to my sobriety anniversary, and it's my birthday! All these things happen within a few weeks of each other. This provides a great opportunity to evaluate my "bottom line" behaviors, or my sobriety definition, ...
01.05.2020 Episode 152: My OPEN Year - 2020 It's a new year and it's my annual time to evaluate my life and decide what the next step looks like for me. My goal for this year is to be OPEN. In this episode I share with you how ...
10.05.2019 Episode 151: Recovery Evolution As you evolve, everything in your life must evolve. If your evolution during recovery doesn't flow out to the other areas of your life, you could wake up one day and wonder what is going on?!?! In this episode, I ...
06.07.2019 Episode 150: The price of Freedom We recently celebrated Memorial Day here in the USA. This is a day we recognize all those who have made sacrifices for the freedoms we live with and enjoy. This amplified the recent thoughts I've been having about the price ...
04.15.2019 Episode 149: Doing it Poorly! You've heard the phrase - If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well. And while that applies in almost all cases, I also think if it's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly. In this episode I'll give you some examples ...
02.05.2019 Episode 148: Compartmentalization I know you've heard the term: compartmentalize. Maybe you've even heard it glorified and bragged about by people. I'm so good at compartmentalizing my life! And while it can be an effective coping strategy - that is all it is ...
01.31.2019 Episode 147: Minding the Gap You asked - I'm answering. You wanted to know how I do an evaluation of my life, how I make connections, how I know there is something off and how do I dig deeper into what that is and find ...
01.27.2019 Episode 146: The Cycle of Relationships I'm resurrecting an episode that had gotten lost in the archives. Family relationships are hard! We enter recovery thinking that they will get better - that everything will get better! We don't always realize that things don't get better right ...
01.20.2019 Episode 145: One Layer Deeper and Family of Origin Jackie and I are EXCITED about what we are doing with One Layer Deeper (1LD). Are you looking to go one layer deeper in your recovery? Then maybe one of our intensives or webinars is right for you! In this ...
01.14.2019 Episode 144: Departure The first step of connection is departure. - Delta Airlines We change, we have to, or we spend the rest of our lives fighting the same battles!- Captain James T. Kirk (Star Trek: Beyond) What do these two quotes have ...
12.04.2018 Episode 143: Gaslighting, Part 2 Let's keep talking gaslighting!! In this episode we will continue our conversation about what gaslighting is, how you know if that is happening to you, and how to get out!! That is the most important - how you get out ...
11.17.2018 Episode 142: Gaslighting, Part 1 Have you heard the term gaslighting? Do you know what it means? Are you currently or have you been a victim? In a recent coaching conversation, I was reminded of just how dangerous this behavior is and how damaging it ...
11.13.2018 Episode 141: Crab Mentality in Recovery Do you ever feel like everyone is pulling you down or holding you back? Yeah - crabs do that. Learn what crab mentality is and how it shows up in recovery as Amy shares some of her crab moments. Let's ...
11.09.2018 Episode 140: Filling in Your Foundation Every semester I give the same "speech" to my math students as we begin class together. This fall, as I was sharing it again, it hit me just how recovery minded the whole thing is! Hard to believe I didn't ...
11.06.2018 Episode 139: Getting Current Getting current is one of the first skills we can gain in recovery. In learning how to share our current reality, we learn how to accept where we are. Once we accept where we are, we can actually make changes. ...
08.29.2018 Episode 138: Step 10 - Promptly Admitted It Continuing our deep dive into Step 10, Amy discusses the third concept from Step 10 - When we were wrong, we promptly admitted it. Step 10 is the time we really start to focus on the present moment and our ...
08.07.2018 Episode 137: Speaking the Truth Everyone has a right to speak their truth. If others don't agree with you, that doesn't invalidate your truth. If you don't speak your truth, it becomes toxic sitting inside of you. These are three realities that I've experienced over ...
07.25.2018 Episode 136: Redefining Self-Care Did you know that Self-Care was finally added to the dictionary? You now have a legitimate resource to help you prioritize taking care of yourself. If it’s in the dictionary – it’s real! Now, we need to look at what ...
07.13.2018 Episode 135: The Implementation Dip The Implementation Dip is a massive part of the change process. It has been studied in education for decades and is a massive part of the strategic planning. It shows us that when we first start to change and put ...
07.11.2018 Episode 134: Step 10 - Personal Inventory Continuing our look at Step 10, Amy dives into what exactly “Personal Inventory” is and why we need it in our recovery process. The ability accurately self-appraise comes with practice and in time, yet it is a skill that can ...
06.22.2018 Episode 133: Women's Stories - An interview with Marnie Feree Marnie Feree is one of the pioneers of sex addiction recovery for women. Having been in addiction recovery for over 20 years - she was one of the first to ever show up in the 12-step circle as a woman. ...
06.22.2018 Episode 133: Women’s Stories - An interview with Marnie Feree Marnie Feree is one of the pioneers of sex addiction recovery for women. Having been in addiction recovery for over 20 years - she was one of the first to ever show up in the 12-step circle as a woman. ...
06.15.2018 Episode 132: Courage to Take the Wheel Part 2: Taking Back The Wheel We need our emotions. They keep us alive. They make the world worth living. If we couldn't feel pain, joy, fear, anger, or love what would we do with ourselves? We need them. AND we need to keep them in ...
06.13.2018 Episode 131: Step 10 - We Continued Picking up the series on the 12 steps of recovery, Amy discusses Step 10: We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. When we reach step 10 in our journey, we have done A ...
06.06.2018 Episode 130: Courage to Take The Wheel: Who's Driving Part 1 We need our emotions. They keep us alive. They make the world worth living. If we couldn't feel pain, joy, fear, anger, or love what would we do with ourselves? We need them. AND we need to keep them in ...
06.05.2018 Episode 130: Courage to Take The Wheel: Who’s Driving Part 1 We need our emotions. They keep us alive. They make the world worth living. If we couldn't feel pain, joy, fear, anger, or love what would we do with ourselves? We need them. AND we need to keep them in ...
06.01.2018 Episode 129: Say No to the Drama! Part 3: Getting Out In the conclusion of our series about the Karpman Drama Triangle we discuss how to GET OUT! There is preventative work we can do so we don't get sucked in. And there are things we can once we get inside ...
05.29.2018 Episode 128: The 5 Gifts of Being a Sponsor According to a recent poll, 9 out of 10 recovering addicts said that having a sponsor was ESSENTIAL to their sobriety and recovery. That was definitely the case for me. And just as important to my recovery has been BEING ...
05.22.2018 Episode 127: Say No To the Drama, Part 2 In the continuation of the drama series, I discuss how amazingly quickly we can shift between roles on the triangle. It is SO CRAZY! We all have our favorite chair, our gateway into the drama. However, we don't stay there. ...
05.18.2018 Episode 126: The Courage to Reach Out I have been so touched recently by how many of you have reached out asking questions or wanting to connect. It is hard to reach out! It is hard to ask for help. In this episode, I share emails from ...
05.15.2018 Episode 125: Courage to Say NO to the Drama, Part 1 Once in recovery, the unmanageability of our lives slows down, thankfully. Yet, there sometimes remains an element of drama in our relationships. We ask ourselves, why is this happening to me? why do I seem to attract these people into ...
05.03.2018 Episode 124: Lessons about Grief Loss is hard. Grieving is hard. So many opinions, so many ideas, so many expectations to navigate. After attending the funeral for my sweet friends mother, my heart was so grateful for the things I've learned about grief. In this ...
04.13.2018 Episode 123: One Layer Deeper - Dating in Recovery With guests Jackie P. and Jon T. from the Thanks for Sharing Podcast, we announce and disucss new opportunities for those looking to start dating in recovery. While there is a lot of support around those wanting to get sober, ...
04.12.2018 Episode 122: Courage to Pay the Price My mom has always told me: Amy, you have the grades you are willing to pay the price for. Amy, you have the spirituality you are willing to pay the price for. Amy, you have the piano skills you are ...
03.30.2018 Episode 121: The Courage to Tell Your Story Telling our story is hard and scary. Publishing it for anyone to read is a whole different level. In this episode I interview Erica Garza, author of "Getting Off: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction". Her new book ...
03.20.2018 Episode 120: The Courage to Try Again I think we've all been there.... the place where we have to start over, again. And we start asking ourselves - is it worth it? I've tried this before and couldn't make it work. Maybe I'm just broken beyond repair? ...
02.14.2018 Episode 119: The Courage to be Known When we grow up in dysfunctional systems, we learn to protect ourselves. One of those survival mechanisms is keeping ourselves small, invisible, unknown. At the same time, we often develop a hyper vigilance to thosearound us and feel like we ...
01.27.2018 Episode 118: The Courage to Circle Back Our world is not linear. Yet, many times we think that is how it “should” be. We work through something, trauma, addiction, relationships, mother issues, or whatever it is, we feel some resolution around it, and we think that is ...

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Worth Recovery episodes:

Episode 165: Women's Stories Series: Kristal

Episode 164: Tending to Our Emotions

Episode 163: Women's Stories Series - Rosario

Episode 162: The Connection Crisis

Episode 161: Privilege, Pandemic & Pacing

Episode 160: Women's Stories - The Grace Spot

Episode 159: Your Moment of Free Fall

Episode 158: Lockdown Loneliness

Episode 157: Women's Stories: Natalie, Pt. 3

Episode 156: Women's Stories: Natalie, Pt. 2

Episode 155: Women's Stories: Natalie, Pt. 1

Episode 154: The Boundary Box

Episode 153: Leveling Your Behaviors

Episode 152: My OPEN Year - 2020

Episode 151: Recovery Evolution

Episode 150: The price of Freedom

Episode 149: Doing it Poorly!

Episode 148: Compartmentalization

Episode 147: Minding the Gap

Episode 146: The Cycle of Relationships

Episode 145: One Layer Deeper and Family of Origin

Episode 144: Departure

Episode 143: Gaslighting, Part 2

Episode 142: Gaslighting, Part 1

Episode 141: Crab Mentality in Recovery

Episode 140: Filling in Your Foundation

Episode 139: Getting Current

Episode 138: Step 10 - Promptly Admitted It

Episode 137: Speaking the Truth

Episode 136: Redefining Self-Care

Episode 135: The Implementation Dip

Episode 134: Step 10 - Personal Inventory

Episode 133: Women's Stories - An interview with Marnie Feree

Episode 133: Women’s Stories - An interview with Marnie Feree

Episode 132: Courage to Take the Wheel Part 2: Taking Back The Wheel

Episode 131: Step 10 - We Continued

Episode 130: Courage to Take The Wheel: Who's Driving Part 1

Episode 130: Courage to Take The Wheel: Who’s Driving Part 1

Episode 129: Say No to the Drama! Part 3: Getting Out

Episode 128: The 5 Gifts of Being a Sponsor

Episode 127: Say No To the Drama, Part 2

Episode 126: The Courage to Reach Out

Episode 125: Courage to Say NO to the Drama, Part 1

Episode 124: Lessons about Grief

Episode 123: One Layer Deeper - Dating in Recovery

Episode 122: Courage to Pay the Price

Episode 121: The Courage to Tell Your Story

Episode 120: The Courage to Try Again

Episode 119: The Courage to be Known

Episode 118: The Courage to Circle Back

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