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Ep35 – Echoes of Recovery: Healing for the Loved Ones of Alcoholics

  • April 2, 2020
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Marriage, Recovery

One of the most widely accepted misperceptions about alcohol addiction is that the drinkers are the only people facing enormous challenges in recovery. The fact is that the loved ones of alcoholics have just as…

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  • Addiction
  • Alcohol

Ep34 – Pandemic Policy Fuels Epic Liquor Store Lines

  • March 26, 2020
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Public Policy

On our first remotely recorded episode due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Matt and Debbie Scheer discuss the public policy decision that threw Denver into chaos. The mayor announced that liquor stores and marijuana dispensaries were…

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  • Addiction
  • Alcohol

Ep33 – Quarantine and Isolation – Alcohol will Only Make it Worse

  • March 13, 2020
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Recovery, Sobriety

While the COVID-19 pandemic is nothing like the terrorist attack on America we suffered during 9/11, it does isolate and confine us in a similar way. Back then, 19 years ago, I sat on the…

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  • Addiction
  • Relationship

EP31 – The Destruction of Intimacy in our Alcoholic Marriage

  • February 28, 2020
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Marriage, Recovery

Sheri and Matt dive deeper than ever before into the intimate details of our alcoholic marriage. Our relationship started in a very typical manner – we mixed booze and romance and lowered all inhibitions. As…

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  • Addiction
  • Nutrition

Ep29 – Doritos Made Me an Alcoholic: The Why, the How and the Stigma of Alcoholism

  • February 3, 2020
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Family

To blame my alcoholism on Doritos is a bold statement, but the more we learn about neurochemistry and the way our brains process inputs, the more obvious the link between my adolescent snack patterns and…

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  • Addiction

Ep28 – Bar Zero: Great Food, Exotic Drinks, Fun People with No Alcohol

  • January 14, 2020
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Gray Area Drinking, Sobriety

Emily Schrader has always been a risk taker. Drinking alcohol and doing drugs was a natural fit for a woman living life on the edge. Now, with 15 years of sobriety, she is taking a…

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  • Addiction

Ep27 – Accomplishment Black Hole

  • January 8, 2020
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Human Condition, Never Enough

I’m supposed to feel rested coming off the holidays, right? So why do I feel so bad – worthless and sinking? Some people drink to avoid processing trauma, abuse or neglect. High-functioning alcoholics like me…

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  • Addiction
  • Speech

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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  • Addiction
  • Relationship

Ep24 – When Alcohol Stops Working with Jolene Park

  • November 11, 2019
  • Tagged as: Alcohol Abuse, Gray Area Drinking, Recovering Out Loud, Sobriety

Jolene Park and her friends were like the cast of Sex in the City with their nights on the town and affinity for classy wines while complaining about their relationship struggles. The dots where there,…

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  • Addiction

Ep22 – Gray Area Drinking with Christy Wynne

  • October 14, 2019
  • Tagged as: Alcohol Abuse, Recovering Out Loud, Sobriety

Christy Wynne didn’t have a spectacular, catastrophic, up-in-flames relationship with alcohol. Sure, she partied for many years, but she decided to leave the booze behind because she just didn’t feel right, and she could deny…

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