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Ep161 – The Value of Pain

  • October 17, 2022
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Family, Marriage, Pain, Recovery, Sobriety

Pain is thought of as an almost exclusively negative emotion and experience. But does pain serve a purpose? Is pain necessary for forward motion in certain scenarios? And is recovery from alcoholism one such scenario?…

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  • Addiction
  • Alcohol
  • Recovery
  • Relationship

Ep159 – Forgiveness Roundtable

  • October 3, 2022
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Family, Forgiveness, Marriage, Recovery, Sobriety

Can forgiveness be achieved without an apology ever being offered? Likewise, can we find comfort in feeling remorse without ever being forgiven? On this special roundtable episode, Sheri and Matt are joined by four lived-experience…

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  • Addiction
  • Alcohol
  • Recovery
  • Relationship

Ep158 – It Takes Two to Tango

  • September 26, 2022
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Family, Health, Marriage, Mental Health, Recovery, Sobriety

In order for a relationship to survive alcoholism, both partners, the former drinker, and the spouse, need to do an amazing amout of work in recovery. It is not about sobriety, although that is a…

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  • Addiction
  • Alcohol
  • Recovery
  • Relationship

Ep156 – Is “Victim” a Dirty Word?

  • September 12, 2022
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Family, Marriage, Recovery, Sobriety, Victim

Alcoholism has lots of victims – including the drinker. High-functioning alcoholics in sobriety often have a really hard time accepting their victim status for a variety of reasons discussed by Sheri and Matt on this…

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  • Relationship

Ep155 – Your Wife’s Not a Bitch…but She Might Be Afraid

  • September 5, 2022
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Gaslighting, Marriage, Recovery, Sobriety

Last week, we published this article titled, “Your Wife’s Not a Bitch,” to our Sober and Unashamed website and blog. We got a lot of reaction, most of it in the form of email from…

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  • Alcohol
  • Recovery
  • Relationship
  • Sex

Ep154 – Intimacy is Vulnerability

  • August 29, 2022
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Family, Intimacy, Marriage, Recovery, Sex, Sobriety

Sheri and Matt dive deep into Sheri’s favorite topic: intimacy. But this discussion might not be what you are expecting. They separate emotional intimacy from sex, and describe emotional intimacy as the ultimate vulnerability (complete…

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  • Addiction
  • Alcohol
  • Recovery
  • Relationship

Ep153 – Making the Turn for Home with Mindy and Tom

  • August 22, 2022
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Family, Marriage, Recovery, Sobriety

Do you want to know what it takes to save a marriage from alcoholism? One word: genuine humility. OK, that’s two words. And it also takes therapy, group work, hard-earned detachment, faith, resentment processing, group…

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  • Alcohol
  • Recovery
  • Relationship

Ep149 – Mantras: Gross and Glorified

  • July 25, 2022
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Family, Gaslighting, Health, Marriage, Mental Health, Recovery, Sobriety

Why do we give so much power to the mantras that surround us (at least some of us do (Sheri’s looking at you, Matt))? There are gross and glorified mantras that are pillars of the…

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  • Alcohol
  • Recovery
  • Relationship

Ep148 – Phases of Relationship Recovery

  • July 18, 2022
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Family, Gaslighting, Kids, Marriage, Recovery, Sex, Sobriety, Teens

There is a flow to the process of recovering a marriage from alcoholism. In this episode, Sheri and Matt talk about the universalisms found in the eight phases of relationship recovery. This is time consuming…

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  • Addiction
  • Alcohol
  • Recovery
  • Relationship

Ep147 – Chaos between the Traumas

  • July 11, 2022
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Family, Kids, Marriage, Recovery, Sobriety

Anyone who has experienced an alcoholic relationship is familiar with the traumatic events when the drinking and the aftermath spins wildly out of control. But for most high-functioning alcoholics, there are plenty of times when…

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