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There’s a moment most families never forget.
It’s not the first time they found the pills. It’s not the arrest, or the call from the hospital, or the Christmas that fell apart. It’s quieter than that. It’s the moment they realize that everything they did out of love, the bail, the hotel rooms, the money on the jail books, the middle-of-the-night rescues, may have been feeding the very thing trying to destroy their child.
That’s where this episode begins. And it doesn’t stay there.
In Episode 50 of the Get Unhooked Podcast, Jason Coombs delivers one of the most personal and practically powerful coaching sessions he’s ever recorded. This isn’t a lecture. It’s a living room conversation with someone who has been on both sides of the wreckage, the addict and the son, and who has spent years turning that wreckage into a roadmap for families who are still in the middle of it.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
∙Jason’s mother Janna share her testimony, from enabling in desperation to loving without losing herself
∙A rarely shared chapter of Jason’s personal story, including his childhood sensitivity, co-occurring diagnoses, and a newly discovered Auditory Processing Disorder that finally explained decades of struggle
∙How Jason became entangled in Utah’s largest OxyContin drug ring and watched the news story break on the very TV station where he worked
∙Jennifer Chase, Brick House team member and a mother walking her own road, asking one of the most honest questions of the episode: “How do they feel loved when I tell them I can’t get them a hotel room?”
∙A practical breakdown of the Stages of Change model and why expecting action-stage behavior from a pre-contemplation-stage person is a setup for heartbreak on both sides
∙Why relapse is not a moral failure. It’s a stage, and understanding that changes everything
∙Jason’s personal recovery beyond sobriety, including compulsive behaviors the recovery world doesn’t always talk about
∙Why faith over fear isn’t just spiritual advice. It’s the most effective influence strategy a family member can adopt
The truth this episode keeps returning to:
You cannot love someone into recovery. But you can learn to love them in a way that stops blocking it.
Janna Coombs didn’t find that truth through a program or a checklist. She found it the hard way, through years of trying to fix what she couldn’t fix, until she finally put down the weight of an outcome she was never meant to carry.
“If you don’t have hope one day,” she says, “just think of Jason’s story and take some of my hope. Miracles can happen.”
That’s the heart of this episode. Not a promise that it gets easy. A promise that it gets possible.
Resources mentioned:
∙Unhooked: How to Help an Addicted Loved One Recover by Jason Coombs, available on Amazon and Audible
∙Fight the New Drug, fighthenewdrug.org
∙Brick House Recovery, brickhouserecovery.com
∙Stages of Change Model, Prochaska & DiClemente
Connect with Jason:
📧 jason@brickhouserecovery.com
📞 208-286-4274
🌐 brickhouserecovery.com

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