What do you do when someone you love is in active addiction?
Do you leave? Do you stay?
How do you love them without losing yourself?

In this episode, we flip the mic a little. Jay asks Jennifer real, unfiltered questions about what it was like to be the spouse of someone in active alcoholism — before the recovery, before the healing, in the thick of it.

This isn’t a formula. It’s a conversation.
And it’s one a lot of people need to hear.

💬 In this episode, we talk about:

• • What it actually felt like to love someone in active addiction

• • Why Jennifer stayed — and what would’ve made her leave

• • The moment she realized she needed her own recovery

  • What helped (and what didn’t) when she was trying to support Jay

• • Encouragement for anyone who’s still in the middle of it

• Whether you're walking through this yourself or you love someone who is, this episode offers truth, hope, and real permission to take care of your own heart in the process.

  
  

  🔗 Resources Mentioned:

  👉 Find a Celebrate Recovery group near you: ⁠https://www.celebraterecovery.com/locator⁠

  👉 Find an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting near you: ⁠https://www.aa.org/find-aa⁠

  👉 Find a Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meeting near you:

  https://na.org/meetingsearch/

  👉 Need support for codependency? Check out CoDA: https://coda.org/find-a-meeting/

  
  

  💬 Let’s stay connected:

  Follow us on Instagram → @rootingforyou.podcast

  New episodes every Wednesday.Share this one with a couple walking through hard things.We're still recovering — and we’re rooting for you. 🖤

  📩 Got a story, question, or just want to say hi? Send us an email at rooting.pod@gmail.com

When people hear “step study,” they often think it’s just homework and hard questions.
But for us — and for our friend Will — it became something way deeper:
A safe place to tell the truth.
A space to sit with God and your story.
A process that changed everything.

In this episode, we talk with Will — who went through a full Celebrate Recovery step study with Jay — about what the experience was really like. No fluff. No spiritual sugar-coating. Just real recovery in motion.

In this episode:

• • Why Will walked into CR in the first place

• • What a step study actually looks like (from someone who’s done it)

• • The fear, resistance, and freedom that surfaced along the way

• • What shifted in his relationships, faith, and identity

• • Why sitting in a circle of truth-tellers can change your life

  
  

  🔗 Resources Mentioned:

  👉 Find a Celebrate Recovery group near you: ⁠https://www.celebraterecovery.com/locator⁠

  👉 Find an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting near you: ⁠https://www.aa.org/find-aa⁠

  👉 Find a Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meeting near you:

  https://na.org/meetingsearch/

  👉 Need support for codependency? Check out CoDA: https://coda.org/find-a-meeting/

  
  

  💬 Let’s stay connected:

  Follow us on Instagram → @rootingforyou.podcast

  New episodes every Wednesday.Share this one with a couple walking through hard things.We're still recovering — and we’re rooting for you. 🖤

  📩 Got a story, question, or just want to say hi? Send us an email at rooting.pod@gmail.com

We didn’t start recovery at the same time… or for the same reasons. One of us was mandated. One of us was just curious. But we both ended up in the same room — and it changed everything.

In this episode, we talk about what it looked like (and still looks like) to recover together. Not perfectly. Not all at once. But side-by-side — with a lot of honesty, laughter, and grace in the process.

🔗 Resources Mentioned:

👉 Find a Celebrate Recovery group near you: ⁠https://www.celebraterecovery.com/locator⁠

👉 Find an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting near you: ⁠https://www.aa.org/find-aa⁠

👉 Find a Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meeting near you:

https://na.org/meetingsearch/

👉 Need support for codependency? Check out CoDA: https://coda.org/find-a-meeting/

💬 Let’s stay connected:

Follow us on Instagram → @rootingforyou.podcast

New episodes every Wednesday.Share this one with a couple walking through hard things.We're still recovering — and we’re rooting for you. 🖤

📩 Got a story, question, or just want to say hi? Send us an email at rooting.pod@gmail.com

We’re getting honest in this one.

Denial isn’t just the dramatic stuff — it can look like being overly busy, brushing off pain, or telling yourself “it’s not that bad.” In this episode, we unpack what denial actually looks like in everyday life, why it’s often the first barrier to healing, and how we both experienced it in our own recovery journeys.

If you’ve ever said “I’m fine” when you weren’t… this episode’s for you.

👥 In this episode, we talk about:

• •The subtle ways denial shows up (even when you think you're past it)

• •Why denial is a survival mechanism — not a flaw

• •The connection between denial, control, and codependency

• •Our personal stories with denial in recovery and marriage

• •How to begin softening toward the truth (without shame)

  
  

  Let’s stay connected:

  Instagram ⁠https://instagram.com/rootingforyou.podcast⁠
  

  Email: rooting.pod@gmail.com

  Share this episode with someone who might need it.
  And if it resonated — leave a review. It helps more than you know.

  We’re rooting for you. Always. 🖤

Before the symptoms… there’s a story.
Before the behavior… there’s a root.

In this episode, we talk about how recovery really begins — not with behavior management, but with honest reflection. We unpack how survival patterns like addiction, codependency, control, and burnout usually start long before we notice them.

This isn’t about blame. It’s about freedom.
You can’t heal what you’re afraid to look at.
But once you trace the root — you can finally stop watering it.

In this episode:

• What "getting to the root" really means

• How we both realized our symptoms were actually survival strategies

• How childhood patterns can become adult pain

• Why curiosity > shame when it comes to change

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  Resources:

  Celebrate Recovery group locator:
  https://crlocator.com/

  Find an AA meeting near you:
  https://www.aa.org/find-aa

  Support for codependency (CoDA):
  https://coda.org/find-a-meeting/

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  Connect with us:

  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rootingforyou.podcast/
  Email: rooting.pod@gmail.com

  
  

  New episodes every Wednesday
  Share this with someone who's doing the deeper work. You're not alone. We're rooting for you. 🖤

Welcome to the very first episode of Rooting for You — a podcast about recovery, marriage, faith, and the messy middle of life.

In this episode, we talk about:

• •Why we started this podcast (hint: we’ve been through it)

• •What “recovery” really means (and why it’s not just for addiction)

• •The real reason we all develop symptoms like burnout, people-pleasing, control, and isolation

• •Why recovery is not a punishment — it's an invitation

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  This is for the ones trying to heal while still holding it all together.
  You don’t have to fix yourself before you begin.
  We’re not experts. We’re just real ones.
  And we’re rooting for you. 🖤

  
  

  🔗 Resources Mentioned:

  👉 Find a Celebrate Recovery group near you:
  https://www.celebraterecovery.com/locator

  👉 Find an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting near you:
  https://www.aa.org/find-aa

  👉 Need support for codependency? Check out CoDA:
  https://coda.org/find-a-meeting/

  
  

  ✨ Stay connected:

  📱 Follow us on Instagram: @rootingforyou.pod
  
  📩 Got a story, question, or just want to say hi? Send us an email at rooting.pod@gmail.com

  🎧 New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe, leave a review, and share with someone who might need this reminder:

  “You don’t have to be falling apart to be barely holding it together.”

  We’ll meet you there.

Welcome to Rooting for You — real talk on recovery, marriage, faith, and everything in between. We’re Jay and Jennifer, and we’ve walked through the fire together. This isn’t about perfection. It’s about healing. And we’re rooting for you. 🖤