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Our Side of Addiction
Our Side of Addiction is a podcast for the people who love someone struggling with addiction and often feel overlooked in the process. Hosted by an addiction recovery coach who specializes in supporting family members, this show speaks directly to parents, siblings, partners, and friends walking a path that’s confusing, painful, and rarely talked about honestly. The host brings both professional experience and lived reality: she lost her younger sister to addiction and facilitates meetings at…
Episodes
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Addiction Progression: How it Evolves
In this episode we take a look at how addiction progresses. When you love an addict it feels like it came out of nowhere yet this is never the case. We break…
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Why Love Isn't Enough When You Love an Addict
Ever wonder why your addict won't just stop? Why they won't stop for you? Why you aren't important enough or why they don't love you enough? When you love an…
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The Scapegoat Role in Families with Addiction
Each member of families or homes with addiction adopt a primary role to survive the chaos and dysfunction. In this episode, we look at the SCAPEGOAT role. What…
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Over-Functioning When You Love and Addict
Over-functioning when you love an addict is common and just about every loved one responds in this manner. At least to some degree at one point or another. In…
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The Caregiver Role in Families with Addiction
In families or homes with addiction, each member adopts a primary role in order to survive and sustain their own life. In this episode, we focus on the…
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What You Can and Can't Control with Addiction
When you love an addict, you feel panicked, fearful and uncertain. This naturally causes you to try to regain control of anything possible. Situations…
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Addiction: The Behavior Model
Is addiction a behavior? Some might say yes. Others might say no. In this episode we take a look at the behavioral model of addiction. For more info visit…
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Rescuing an Addict: Why it's Horrible
Rescuing is a behavior most loved ones of addicts engage in. You might do this once or all the time. It might have happened instantly or progressively. Many…
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Processing Grief When Loving an Addict
Grief doesn't just occur during death. It also happens when someone we love is still alive. When you love an addict, grief is a common experience. Grief of…
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Forgiveness vs. Reconciliation When Loving an Addict
Do you know the difference between forgiveness and reconciliation? Because they aren't the same. In this episode, we break down each one so that there is more…
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Complacency When an Addict is in Recovery
What does complacency look like when your loved one with an addiction is in recovery? In this episode, we take a look at how that can look, how it impacts you…
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Complacency When an Addict is in Active Addiction
Complacency has a major impact on addicts and you, their loved one. In this episode, we dive into what complacency looks like when an addict is in active…
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1+ Year of Recovery: What Does it Look Like?
What should you expect when your loved one has 1+ year of recovery time? We break down what to expect, what it is comprised of, and how to support your loved…
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Tough Conversations and Secrets from Your Addict
Having tough conversations and listening to their secrets is a difficult situation. You want to know the details but when you hear them your entire world flips…
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Relationship Changes when Your Loved One is in Recovery
When your loved one enters recovery, they do an enormous amount of personal development work. Their entire identity changes. Essentially, they become a…
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Loss of Identity: Wen Your Loved One is in Active Addiction
When you love an addict, your identity changes and becomes wrapped up in them. You start thinking, behaving, and wanting different things. This change in…
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Dry Drunk: What is it and is your loved one dry drunk?
There are a lot of terms in the addiction world and on this episode we explore DRY DRUNK. We talk about what it is, how to tell if your loved one is dry drunk…
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Sabotaging an Addict: How and Why You Do It
It is common for the loved ones of addicts to sabotage them. This is true whether or not they are in active addiction. Sabotaging them to stay addicted or…
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Addiction and the Rat Park Study
Ever wonder how influential environment actually is on addiction? Is it only genetic? Is it only environmental? We take a look at the Rat Park study findings…
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Denial and a Loved One's Addiction
Being in denial feels a lot better than accepting a loved ones addiction. This is because when we are in denial, we don't need to take action. Nothing needs to…
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Enabling an Addict: The Cost to Relationships
Enabling is an intense and complex topic. What is it exactly and what price do you pay for engaging in enabling behaviors? In this episode, we take a look at…
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Accepting a Loved One's Addiction
Accepting that some one you love has an addiction is jarring and life-changing. Whether that acceptance is slowly developed or all in an instant. It changes…
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Resentment and Loving an Addict
Loving an addict causes lots or resentment. You sacrifice a lot and bring yourself to the edge of your own survival. All for the sake of saving them. For…
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Summer Fun While Supporting Addiction Recovery
Summer is the time for fun and lots of activities. We can get caught up in our usual routines of family outings, beach trips, BBQs and summer vacations. The…
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Detach from a Addict with Love
It's easy to get lured into the chaos of an addict, especially when you love them. Where exactly do they end and you begin? It's starts getting difficult to…
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Addiction as a Disease (Behavior Model)
Is addiction really a disease? In this episode we explore the concept of addiction as a disease rather than a behavior. Why people might consider it under that…
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Treatment Options for Addiction Recovery
There are several treatment options for addiction recovery and there is a process to it. In this episode, we take a look at detox, rehab and outpatient…
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What do the first 90 days of addiction recovery look like?
As a loved one of an addict, it's easy to feel left out. This is especially true when it comes to the recovery process. What exactly is going on? What should…
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The Link Between Trauma and Addiction
Trauma is the root of addiction. It's easy to desire to bypass this as a loved one of an addict. However, if the root isn't addressed, the problem can never…
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Mental Health + Addiction: Dual Diagnosis
Addiction and mental health disorders are common dual diagnoses. Mental health disorders can cause an addiction to develop. Addiction can also cause mental…
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Early Recovery: What to Expect in the First 90 Days
The loved ones of addicts often feel out of the loop as it pertains to an addicts recovery process. It can feel frustrating to not know what's going on, what…
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Self-Care for the Loved Ones of Addicts
Self-care? What, are you crazy or something? My loved one is practically dying and you are talking about SELF-CARE?!! Well, that's exactly how I thought when…
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Relapse: What Happens and What You Need to Know
Relapse is a terrifying word for the loved ones of addicts. It's one of your top nightmare scenarios. Depending on the addiction, up to 92% of addicts will…
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Creating Healthy and Compassionate Boundaries for You and Addicts
Boundaries is a complicated topic. Not because it's complex but rather because it's difficult. Boundaries itself is straight forward. However, it can feel as…
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Building a Safe Environment for Addicts and You
Loving an addict means living in a state of chaos and dysfunction. This creates unsafe environments but it also causes the loved ones to abandon their own…
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Communicating with Addicts without Enabling or Conflict
Communication is challenging for the majority of us. It is especially uncomfortable when you are having to communicate with a loved one who has an addiction…
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When They Refuse Treatment
What happens when your loved one with an addiction refuses to get help? You offer to get them into treatment but they don't actually go. Even if they initially…
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Safety and Stepping Back from Addicts
Loving an addict is traumatic. It can also be dangerous. That means physically but also mentally and emotionally. As loved ones of addicts, it's important that…
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Alan Marlatt's Relapse Behavioral Model
Alan Marlatt was a clinical psychologist who pioneered relapse prevention and gave us a cognitive behavioral model that differentiates a lapse from a relapse…
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Codependency: What it is and isn't
Codependency is prolific when it comes to addiction. The majority of addicts participate in these types of relationship dynamics. Which happen to be highly…
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Guilt, Shame, Anger: How to Manage
Guilt, shame and anger are commonly experienced by the loved ones of addicts. We can often feel like these emotions aren't allowed because someone else is…
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What Loved Ones Experience
We dive into what the loved ones of addicts commonly experience. It's tumultuous, distressing, frustrating, and maddening. Let's acknowledge your hardships and…
Our Side of AddictionNice to Meet You
Welcome to Our Side of Addiction! In this episode you will hear all about why I am here and why this podcast is for you if you have a loved one with an…