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How does a successful professional with a promising career end up homeless, facing felony charges, and addicted to heroin?

And more importantly, how does someone come back from that?

In this special episode of the Get Unhooked Podcast, I'm sharing a conversation I had with my good friend Shane Ramer, host of That Sober Guy Podcast.

We're going deep into my personal journey through addiction, the consequences that nearly destroyed my life, and what it actually took to find lasting recovery.

I wasn't someone who grew up thinking I'd become addicted to drugs.

I had a successful career in television sales, a marriage, and a future that looked pretty promising.

But after a car accident introduced me to prescription painkillers, I found myself caught up in an OxyContin drug ring involving a doctor who was illegally prescribing medication.

When that operation came crashing down, my addiction didn't stop.

It got worse.

Eventually, I lost my career, my marriage, my home, and my freedom. I spent a winter homeless, struggling with heroin and crack cocaine addiction.

And even after going to jail and multiple treatment programs, I still wasn't ready to change.

It took five treatment attempts before something finally clicked.

In this episode, Shane and I talk about addiction, recovery, faith, gratitude, and why getting sober requires so much more than simply putting down the drugs or alcohol.

We also explore the importance of recognizing the victories we experience along the way, even when life doesn't turn out exactly as we planned.

Whether you're struggling with addiction yourself, you've been through treatment multiple times, or you're watching someone you love continue down a destructive path, I hope my story reminds you of something important:

Your past doesn't have to determine your future.

Recovery is possible. And there's a whole lot more to life than simply being sober.

Let's get unhooked.

Connect with Jason Coombs:
Brick House Recovery | brickhouserecovery.com

Author of Unhooked: How to Help an Addicted Loved One Recover

Special thanks to Shane Ramer and That Sober Guy Podcast for the conversation.

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What happens when you love someone struggling with addiction so much that their addiction starts consuming your life too?

In this episode of the Get Unhooked Podcast, Jason sits down with bestselling author, recovery coach, and host of the One Day at a Time Recovery Podcast, Arlina Allen.

Arlina recently celebrated 31 years of recovery—but her story is about far more than simply getting sober.

She and Jason dig into what recovery actually looks like beneath the surface: people-pleasing, self-judgment, codependency, the need to control, finding a Higher Power, rebuilding self-worth, and learning how to live from love instead of fear.

And for families, there’s an especially important message:

You can deeply love someone struggling with addiction without making yourself responsible for their recovery.

Sometimes the greatest influence we have begins when we stop trying to control the outcome and start doing our own work.

Jason and Arlina talk about the 12 Steps, emotional sobriety, letting people experience their own journey, and why healing can eventually turn some of the most painful chapters of our lives into purpose.

If you’ve been exhausted from worrying, rescuing, monitoring, fixing, or wondering what else you can possibly do to help someone you love, this conversation is for you.

There is another way to love them.

And it starts with getting unhooked.

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Join Jason Coombs LIVE each week for tips and tricks and LIVE Q&A’s. Go to https://www.liveunhooked.com/live-unhooked.

For information about treatment services visit https://www.brickhouserecovery.com/

For more information about Warrior Heart Bootcamp for men visit www.awarriorheart.com

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To learn more about the women’s retreat, Heart of a Woman:
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What if the reason you’re exhausted from trying to help your addicted loved one isn’t because you haven’t tried hard enough…

…but because you’ve been using the wrong tool for the stage they’re actually in?

In this episode of Get Unhooked, Jason introduces the COMPASS Framework—a practical way to identify where your loved one is in the stages of change so you can stop guessing, reacting, rescuing, threatening, and trying to force progress that isn’t yours to control.

You’ll learn how to listen for change talk, evaluate their actions instead of their promises, recognize the difference between relapse and starting over, and identify who is actually carrying the desire for recovery.

Most importantly, you’ll learn how to choose one appropriate move based on where your loved one actually is—not where you desperately want them to be.

If you’ve been asking yourself:

“Should I push harder?”
“Should I back off?”
“Should I give them another chance?”
“Should I set another boundary?”
“Do they really want to change?”

This episode will give you a framework for answering those questions with more clarity and a lot less chaos.

You cannot control whether someone else chooses recovery.

But you can learn how to stop letting their addiction control you.

Support the show

Join Jason Coombs LIVE each week for tips and tricks and LIVE Q&A’s. Go to https://www.liveunhooked.com/live-unhooked.

For information about treatment services visit https://www.brickhouserecovery.com/

For more information about Warrior Heart Bootcamp for men visit www.awarriorheart.com

https://awarriorheart.com/

$100 DISCOUNT CODE for Warrior Heart = 2026Brick100

To learn more about the women’s retreat, Heart of a Woman:
https://theheartofawoman.net/

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