We’ve talked about anxiety, addiction, boundaries, and emotional breakdowns… So this week? We’re keeping it light.

In this episode, we’re answering rapid-fire questions about marriage, recovery, and real life — no prep, no script, just honest (and sometimes ridiculous) answers from both of us.

We cover things like:

• Who’s more dramatic (spoiler: we both have thoughts)
• What recovery has helped us laugh at now
• The Target aisles we can’t stay away from
• And the weird little things saving our sanity right now
This episode is pure exhale. Zero fixing. Just fun, real talk, and a reminder that healing doesn’t have to be heavy all the time.

🎧 Listen if you need:

• • A break from the serious stuff
  • A reason to laugh (or feel less alone in your weirdness)
  • To remember that recovery includes joy too
  

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In this episode, we talk about our personal experiences with anxiety — and how it’s shown up in recovery, relationships, and the pressure to hold it all together.

Jay shares about how and where his anxiety started, being diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder after getting sober, the surprising ways it impacted his healing, and how medication and support changed the game.

Jennifer opens up about how people-pleasing and perfectionism became ways to avoid the uncomfortable truth: she was anxious all the time and didn’t know how to stop.

🔗 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. 🖤

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What if the thing that’s actually keeping you stuck… is trying to hold everything together?

In this episode, we talk about powerlessness — not as weakness, but as the beginning of real peace. Because whether it’s addiction, anxiety, control, or just trying to keep everyone else happy… eventually we all hit a point where white-knuckling life doesn’t work anymore.

We get real about:

• • What powerlessness actually looks like (and what it doesn’t)
  • Our own stories of trying to control things we couldn’t
  • The moment we realized that letting go wasn’t giving up — it was freedom

• This one isn’t just for people in recovery. It’s for anyone who’s exhausted from pretending they’re fine.

  
  

  🔗 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

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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. 🖤

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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. 🖤

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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)

  
  

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

  
  

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