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Bottomless to Sober — 86 episodes

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86. Closing This Chapter, but the Work Continues
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85. Signs I Ignored About My Alcoholic Liver Disease
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84. Break the Cycle Before It Breaks You: Healing Trauma and Recovery with Author Priscilla María Gutiérrez

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83. How I Stay Sober While Grieving: Tools for Holiday Healing
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82. How to Say No to Alcohol During the Holidays (Without Explaining Yourself)
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81. “You Can’t Be a B**ch to Yourself If You Have Daughters” — Healing Body Image in Sobriety and Motherhood
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80. You Don’t Have to Hit Rock Bottom to Change
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79. Turning Pain Into Purpose: Alex Lange on Grief, Healing, and Living With Intention

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78. Living Unmasked: A Conversation with Abigail Teixeira on Sobriety, Generational Healing, and Decolonizing Parenthood
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77. An Interview with Investigative Journalist Shoshana Walter, Author of Rehab: An American Scandal

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76. Why Your Boring Life Might Be the Best One Yet
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75. Am I Prioritizing Connection or Control?
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74. ‘Bad Enough’ for Rehab? And Other Questions Answered with Robert Marino
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73. Your Discomfort Is a Signal
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72. You Can Have It All and Still Be Struggling: How Fiction Helped Jessica Guerrieri Tell the Truth About Motherhood, Alcohol, and Recovery
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71. I Got the Thing… So Why Do I Still Feel Empty?
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70. What If Recovery Isn’t a Straight Line? Life in the Middle Place with Author Mallary Tenore Tarpley
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69. Flipping the Script on Asking for Help
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68. I Didn’t Get an Apology—But I Got Something Better
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67. You Might Be the 1 in 10—and You’re Not Alone
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66. "You are not a before and after photo."
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65. Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight
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64. Breaking Free From The 'Good Girl' Mask
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63. Shame Is a Liar: Reclaiming Your Worth and Breaking Free

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62.The Hidden Reason Tough Conversations Set You Off – And How to Fix It
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61. Teaching People How to Treat Us
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60. You Can't Save Them
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59. Love, Lies, and Liquor: How Sobriety Helped Me See Red Flags Clearly
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58. Identity, Atomic Habits, and the Power of Self-Perception
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57. The Most Complicated Person I Ever Loved
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56. Living in a Dorm with My Baby: Breaking Norms and Battling Shame
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55. From Happy Hours to Hard Truths: Teaching, Alcohol, and the Surgeon General’s Wake-Up Call
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54. I'm not going to say Happy New Year.
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53. To Go or Not To Go: Assessing the Risks of Going Out When Alcohol is Involved
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52. Raising Healthy Kids: Insights from Jessica Lahey on Substance Use Prevention
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51. "It's not about feeling better. It's about getting better at feeling."

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50. Why force yourself to sit at a table that was never meant for you?

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49. Breaking Trauma Cycles and Embracing Healing with Cycle Breaker Coach Priscilla Gutiérrez

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48. From Silence to Liberation: A Mother’s Day Reflection

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47. Eight Questions You Asked About Marijuana, Relationships, Moderation and More

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46. Chris’s Journey Through Addiction and Adoption

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45. The Role of Storytelling in Recovery

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44. Breaking Down What Our Mothers Taught Us About Looks, Behavior, and Love

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A mini episode in honor of Ian.

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43. What else can be true? A deeper look at people-pleasing.

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42. The Lessons I Didn't Learn From Marriage

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41. Beyond the First Sip: Healing Through Writing About My Childhood

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40. From Liquid Courage to Authentic Connection: A Conversation with Relationship and Sex Therapist, Eliza Boquin

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38. Navigating Recovery Using The Four Agreements

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37. Pregnancy Loss: What It Moved Me To Unlearn About Recovery

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36. Crafting Healing Paths: Sobriety, Forgiveness, and Finding Community

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35. New Year, Same You: Navigating Self-Forgiveness and Resolutions

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34. Boundary Burnout: Bouncing Back When Having Your Own Back Gets Exhausting

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33. What is post-traumatic growth? A conversation with Jasmine Vatuloka of Rising Rooted Wellness
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32. From Addiction to Voice

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31. From Darkness Comes Light: The Viral Op-Ed Written by an Addicted Teacher of the Year

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30. Reclaiming Narratives: Kiola Raines' Reflections On Sobriety

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29. Resetting: The Power of Bold Decisions in Recovery

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28. 12 Faces of Sober: Kenneth Watson's Journey from Addiction to Fatherhood

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27. Two Words You Need to Get Through the Holidays Sober

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26. Emerging from the Shadows of Opiates and Alcohol: Nico Morales's Path to Recovery

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25. Letting Go and Finding Peace: Navigating Life's Transitions
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24. You Don't Know What You Don't See: Ana's Story

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23. Unraveling the Power of Snapshot Moments
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22. Maturity

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21. Self Sabotage

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20. Jealousy
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19. Ian's Story

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18. Staying Sober During a Hurricane

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17. Two Lessons Learned from 1,000+ Days of Sobriety
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16. Sara's journey. From surviving to thriving.

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15. My experience with alcoholic liver disease (ALD)

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14. Practicing Self-Compassion Part 2 - You're Your Own Best Source of Wisdom

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13. Practicing Self-Compassion Part 1 - When Others Let Us Down

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12. Back to School Chat with Sober Educator Brian

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11. Finding Purpose Through Pain: Martin Lockett's DUI Manslaughter Story

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10. My Sister's Love Through My Addiction

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9. It's been a hard day, and I will not drink with you

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8. What is in my control?
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7. My Life Since Sobriety: From Wanting to Willing

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6. My Life Before Sobriety

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5. Permission to throw goals away
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4. My rehab story.

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3. When the world feels like it's falling apart.

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2. Dating In Recovery

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1. Strategies for When Our Loved Ones Upset Us

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