Sober on Purpose - Healing Families of Addiction
115 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHey there! Are you tired of feeling helpless and overwhelmed while trying to support your loved ones through addiction and recovery? Well, I've got some exciting news for you! The Helping Families Heal after Addiction course is here to provide you with practical advice and valuable insights to help you navigate this challenging time and create a life you adore with your loved ones.
This course is designed to help families overcome addiction and create a balanced and fulfilling life without it. Trust me, I know what I'm talking about because I've been there myself and ready to share my experiences with you.
With several episodes covering different aspects of addiction and recovery, you'll learn how to support your loved ones while also taking care of yourself. From journaling and reaching out to support groups to managing resentments and celebrating victories, this course has got you covered!
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DISCLAIMER: Any information or advice I give is purely based on my own experience and research. There is no guarantee as there are many variables that will impact your success in the program. Everything stated should be taken as an opinion.
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To Your Happiness!
Tanya Gioia.
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Episodes
Ep 9 Walking Through Challenges in Life
January 11, 2019 15:40 - 22 minutes - 20 MBAre you walking through the valley of death in 2019 desperately looking for an escape route? Are trapped in a mood-altering addiction that keeps you from starting the journey? Where are you willing to challenge yourself and your relationships this year? How do you need to prepare yourself for the journey? What guides or companions do you need to proceed with the challenges you are going to tackle in 2019? How will you stay motivated?
Ep 8 What is Your Role in a Sober Family?
January 04, 2019 16:55 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBIn this week's podcast, we continue on the theme of roles in the family relationship. When any major change happens in a marriage or a family the responsibilities of the members shift. Sobriety is a big change! The person with the most visible addiction may have been the scapegoat of the family. While the person "holding down the fort" is often seen as a saint. Sobriety brings us what has always been true. All members of a family have roles to play which encompass both our flaws ...
Ep 7 Relapse, Are You the Cause?
December 28, 2018 20:07 - 26 minutes - 26.1 MBDo you feel like you are just waiting for the other shoe to drop in your marriage? Sober now, relapse tomorrow? Fear of relapse is real. In fact a high number of people who get sober relapse. Different reasons for different folks cause them to take their eyes off sobriety. In the podcast, we talk in-depth about whose reasonability sobriety is anyway. There is a lot of dignity in working through your own hurts, habits, and hang-ups. How do we give each other the opportunity to face o...
Ep. 6 Tools for Disabling Resentments
December 21, 2018 17:17 - 18 minutes - 19.5 MBThis is the third in a series of podcasts about resentments. This one gives specifics on how to rid your self of resentments. Here is why: By holding onto the resentment I have to wait until they realize what they did to free me from my self-imposed prison. The one thing a resentment does well; it provides me with an opportunity to re-injure myself over and over with my own thoughts and feelings. How do you even begin to disable these things? What does it look like to be free from res...
Ep 5 Sober UP Your Christmas With Us
December 16, 2018 15:32 - 26 minutes - 26.3 MBHOW WE CREATED A NO STRESS CHRISTMAS DAY AND YOU CAN TOO! We saved our family Christmas Day by doing nothing. Six or seven Christmases ago we started doing “nothin’ ” for Christmas Day. It came as a revelation to my husband and I when the boys were really little. You can do this too! It is lots of fun. Release the stress. Stay sane and have a wonderful family day! Join us for Christmas Serenity Hacks Here! https://www.thejoyousfamily.com/christmas-seranity-hacks/
Worth it Minisode: Christmas Serenity Hacks
December 12, 2018 17:12 - 1 minute - 3.87 MBAs we are all super busy this time of year the Christmas Serenity Hack is packaged in a One Minute Audio message. Bonus! The hack is designed to bring you back to emotional sobriety in a minute or less. You don't even have to stop what you are doing! Listen to the Christmas Serenity Hack. Do it! Then get back to your daily life with more joy and peace. That is what the season is about right? Peace? Secure serenity for yourself with these quick daily audios. Be sure to sign up fo...
Ep. 4 Benefits of Working Through Your Resentments
December 07, 2018 16:11 - 15 minutes - 16.1 MBBenefits to Working Through your Resentments 2 of 3 In the second podcast episode on resentments, we dive into how resentments can become part of how you define yourself. There are great benefits to working through a resentment toward a person, situation, or institution. Getting unstuck from a feeling or situation Freeing yourself to move forward Stoping re-injuring of yourself with a past hurt Forgiving of yourself and others Growing in compassion for others because you are not ...
Working it Minisode: Doing the Best You Can in Sobriety
December 02, 2018 20:46 - 8 minutes - 9.61 MBThis minisode Jerry talks about being new to sobriety and facing people and challenges that cause him to question his and others motives. Here are a few highlights from this minisode with Jerry. During recovery from addiction, difficult things still happen. You may continue to cause others and yourself pain. Other's responses to your new sobriety and the changes you are making may also be difficult. How do you navigate the new emotional landscape of your life sober? Are other peopl...
Ep 4 Top 10 Tips for Emotionally Sober Holidays
November 22, 2018 05:24 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBTurkey Day is upon us. No one wants to struggle with Family Holidays. After recovery from addictions, the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays may trigger unwanted feels and emotions. Here are our Top Ten Tips for staying Emotionally Sober during the Holidays. Designed to help you accept the things that you can't change and the courage to stay sober and addiction free during high-stress times. Got some strategies of your own? Share it with us in the Sober on purpose facebook gro...
Worth it Minisode: Comfortably UnHappy-Meh
November 20, 2018 15:58 - 3 minutes - 7.1 MBComfortably Unhappy I hate this concept. It is the golden cage of work, home and play. The sound for comfortably unhappy is “meh” ( expressing a lack of interest or enthusiasm). Just saying it makes me cringe--MEH. It is that chocolate chip cookie that is not good but not bad it is just a cookie. This is why I don’t eat cheesecake. It is sweet and creamy, but for my taste, it is just meh at the cost of a whole lot of calories. Don't waste your sober on purpose life on comfortably ...
Ep 3 Are There Any Justified Resentments?
November 08, 2018 17:32 - 17 minutes - 26.6 MBGetting sober often leaves us and our families with a long list of hurt feelings. We can resent people, organizations and ourselves. Hanging our hats on resentments, holding them close and nurturing them only serves to feed them. Just like expectations, resentments tend to repopulate given the chance. They grow and grow and grow bigger like a balloon. The long slim needle of truth about a resentment is they are a recycling of old negative feelings that we choose to reboot in our minds...
Ep 2A Working it Minisode: Only Working on Yourself
October 25, 2018 07:38 - 3 minutes - 7.51 MBHey, this is Jerry with the first short workin´ it minisode. Just my opinion on who you can and cannot control in the addiction recovery process. Maybe you have been sober a while or maybe you are new to sobriety. Tanya and I want to do these short mindset focused minisodes between the longer Sober on Purpose episodes to give you a quick minute or two of support. Often one thing said by one person in a recovery group or by a trusted advisor can turn my mind around. I hope these litt...
Ep. 2 Are Your Expectations For Sobriety Realistic?
October 22, 2018 09:05 - 28 minutes - 41.6 MBThe relief of you or the loved one getting sober lifts a momentous wait off the family. Now everything is going to be OK. He, she or they will stop doing whatever they were doing that caused the family so much harm. For years, the families desperate mantra for sobriety may have gone something like this: IF he would just … stop using drugs, pron, spending money, working 90 hours. IF she would just.. stop nagging, drinking, shopping, yelling. Our expectations breed more expectations. We ...
Ep 1 Worth it Minisode: Intent is Not Practice
October 13, 2018 11:52 - 2 minutes - 5.82 MBIf you intend to lose weight, get up earlier, travel or stop or start something in your life, this quick episode is for you! Good intentions are grand ideas without a plan. How do you change those ideas into actions? Practice! This episode is me, Tanya, with few life-changing thoughts about being Sober on Purpose. There is no magic pill! Finding your way takes Purpose and Practice.
Ep 1 Real Families Real Sobriety
October 05, 2018 16:00 - 6 minutes - 10.9 MBSober on Purpose podcast is real life for real families. This is crazy, right? Launching a podcast on top of thejoyousfamily.com blog. Nope! Actually, it is perfect. What better way to get to know all of you. Many couples walked before and alongside of Jerry and I as we became Sober on Purpose. Those couples came for dinner, talked us down out of our respective trees, listened to our struggles together and separately and sometimes watched our kids so we could get to a counseling session. ...