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Ep25 – My Alcoholism is Not a Spiritual Problem

  • November 25, 2019
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Recovering Out Loud, Recovery, Sobriety

In this episode, I share a speech I gave to a community of people recovering from alcoholism through the twelve steps. It was not an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, though many of the people in the…

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  • Relationship

Ep23 – Healthy Delay: The Pace of Recovery for an Alcoholic Spouse

  • October 28, 2019
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Marriage, Recovery

When I was trying to gain my permanent sobriety, I needed my wife’s support more than ever. I thought her cautions attitude and reserved enthusiasm was selfish on her part. I didn’t understand that she…

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Ep21 – Sheri’s Social Drinking: Alcohol Remains Toxic to Our Marriage

  • September 30, 2019
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Family, Marriage, Teens

The damage done to our marriage by my active alcoholism was massive. We are still trying to deal with the resentment, and repair trust and our intimate relationship. But now, we face an unexpected challenge….

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Ep20 – Alcoholism is More Prolific than Cancer, and We Are the Cure

  • September 19, 2019
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Recovering Out Loud

Almost 15 million Americans have cancer, but there are more than 15 million American alcoholics. Addiction to alcoholism touches all of our lives. In this speech designed to inform and destigmatize, I talk about how…

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Ep18 – Getting Our Marriage Unstuck with Jason & Lana

  • August 12, 2019
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Marriage, Recovery, Sobriety

Sheri and I are stuck. We have made tremendous progress in the recovery of our relationship, now in the third year of my sobriety, but resentments from the past continue to haunt us. We have…

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Ep17 – Sheri’s Story, Part 2: Recovering Our Marriage

  • July 9, 2019
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Family, Marriage, Recovery

In part two of a three part series about how Matt’s alcoholism has damaged our marriage, Sheri talks about the process of recovering our marriage from the depths of distrust and deceit. While we’ve made…

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Ep16 – SHOUT Sobriety Week 6

  • June 21, 2019
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Recovery, Sobriety

God has an important place in my life. He always has. I am a very spiritual person, and I pray constantly both now and back when I was in active alcoholism. That’s why I don’t…

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Ep15 – SHOUT Sobriety Week 5

  • June 20, 2019
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Family, Marriage

Relationships are so important to our happiness and our success in early sobriety. Taking alcohol out of our relationships actually does not fix the problems that our years of drinking caused. Removing alcohol only makes…

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Ep14 – SHOUT Sobriety Week 4

  • June 19, 2019
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Family, Marriage, Recovery, Sobriety

The disease of alcoholism has many victims. The spouses and children of an alcoholic are victims. The parents and friends of an alcoholic are victims, too. The victim we forget is the alcoholic. If you…

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Ep13 – SHOUT Sobriety Week 3

  • June 15, 2019
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Recovery, Sobriety

In the third week of the SHOUT Sobriety program, we discuss two very important topics in early sobriety. We have to be patient with ourselves and our brains as we begin to recover from alcoholism….

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