How does your sobriety–or lack thereof–impact your relationship?

Emotions are a huge part of relationship. When you’re able to be sober with your emotions, your honesty and vulnerability cultivate trust and connection grows.

We turn to addictions when we’re uncomfortable with our emotions. We want to hide from them or numb out. So you eat a quart of ice cream or you down a 6-pack of beer. Your addiction confuses your emotional state. You’re unable to be honest and alienation is fostered, trust is undermined, and your relationship connection weakens.

In this episode, I speak with Dawn Larson (a therapist) and Amy (a 12-Step member). We investigate the various ways to define our own sobriety. You’ll hear us discuss eating, binging and a host of other addictions, but what we’re in search of is a definition of sobriety.

Resources

In the episode Dawn mentions The Heart of Recovery approach to healing. Here is a link to a discussion about that approach.

Here’s a link to my Sober January podcast episode last year.

One of my clients wrote a book about their journey with sobriety and I had the privilege of coaching during the writing of that project.

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