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Emotional Sobriety: The Next Step in Recovery — 203 episodes

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Title
1

Made a Searching & Fearless Moral Inventory (Of Someone Else)

2

We Are More Capable Than We Realize

3

“My Brain Would Kill Me if It Didn’t Need the Transportation”

4

Don't Stop Before You Even Start!

5

Disappointments Are Not Obstacles

6

Anger is Just Another Feeling

7

Moving Forward After Relapse, Part Two

8

Moving Forward After Relapse, Part One

9

Adjustments at Close Range

10

“The Power of Gentle Presence” with John Amodeo

11

Whitehat Addictions

12

Excavating Your Lost Self

13

"Focus Mokus" with Joe C.

14

Personal Agency in Emotional Sobriety

15

Tout Est Possible

16

Resilience Myths

17

Self-Supporting Holiday

18

“God Doesn’t Flunk Anyone, but He Gives a Lot of Re-Tests”

19

Holidays Aren’t So Bad! (Unless You Get Kicked by a Horse)

20

Your Family Is Your Alma Mater

21

"You’re the One You’ve Been Waiting For" with Melanie Gulde

22

Codependency and Emotional Sobriety

23

The Merry-Go-Round

24

Emotional Sobriety & Creativity with Michael J. Harney

25

The Bedroom Opens off the Living Room

26

Trauma is Subjective

27

Beliefs Are Choices

28

Close to the Ditch

29

Streamline Your Thinking!

30

"I Am Not a Counselor"

31

The Reverse Golden Rule

32

“Sobriety Didn’t Solve My Problems, It Exposed Them”

33

Second First Steps

34

Are These Extravagant Promises? Inconceivable!

35

Right-Sized Expressions

36

Letting Go Never Stops

37

“Lift My Lamp Beside the Golden Door”

38

Recovery Capital with Samantha Duggan

39

Staying In

40

Bright Sunshine in the Rat Park with Dr. Carl Erik Fisher

41

Flowing with Becoming feat. Joe C.

42

Inukshuk with Julia Heidmann

43

Proficiency vs. Perfection

44

To Be Human Is to Be Impacted

45

Gratitude, Humility, and Awe

46

For the Newcomers

47

Uncertainty and Emotional Sobriety

48

Filing with the Complaint Department

49

Newfound Responsibility

50

Emotions Are (Part Of) the Solution

51

Guidance vs. Advice

52

Re-Solving

53

The Regret Reduction Program

54

Emotional Sobriety and Love

55

Seeing More, Seeing Further

56

Awareness is the Foundation

57

Surviving Fire

58

Post-Traumatic Gains

59

2024 in Review

60

Lucky Attachments

61

Any Port in a Storm

62

Early Holiday Observations with Joe C.

63

Acorn to Oak Tree with Herb K.

64

Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot

65

How's Your Practice?

66

Emotional Sobriety as “Democratic Pluralism”

67

Acknowledging & Accepting Another Perspective

68

Expanding the Zone of Comfort

69

In Pardoning, We Are Pardoned

70

He Doth Protest Too Much (Missive from ICSAA)!

71

So Worth Living

72

Grip Lightly

73

Challenging Core Beliefs

74

When We Need Outside Help

75

Accepting the Road Ahead with Dr. Shawn Horn

76

Stay Connected & Add More Self

77

Balancing on the Relational Beam

78

Beating the Questionnaire

79

Hurtling Towards Serenity

80

Life Goes On

81

Get Quiet, and Listen

82

Connection/Hope/Identity/Meaning/Empowement

83

Never Judge Your Earlier Self by What You Know Today

84

Spiritual GPS

85

Any Way You Slice It (Cheerio to London!)

86

Make Plans, Don’t Plan the Results!

87

So Worth It

88

Courage to Change

89

Dream Come True

90

Party Guy

91

Getting the Help

92

Unity = Love

93

"The Experiment" with Sara Stromberg

94

Passing It On

95

Está Bien

96

"Fear of Economic Insecurity Will Leave Us"

97

Little Surrenders

98

It All Adds Up

99

Tending Our Gardens

100

Our Way of Life with Herb K.

101

To Crush and Not Be Crushed

102

Moving Beyond Our Challenging Year

103

Happy Happy, Joy Joy

104

The Dubious Importance of "Being Right"

105

Adapting to the Unexpected

106

What Aren’t We Thankful For?

107

On the Rocks

108

“There Ain’t No Easy Cancer”

109

New Recovery From Trauma and PTSD

110

Recovery in Poetry with Janine McJannett

111

Daily Practices on Recovery's Frontier (with Patrick McAteer)

112

Oh, the Places We’ll Go (with Joe C.)

113

Emotional Sobriety in Residential Treatment

114

It’s Never Too Late

115

Awakening Our Truest Selves

116

Surviving and Thriving in Motherhood with Celeste Yvonne

117

Self-Esteem and Emotional Sobriety with Roger Andes

118

Recovery's Paradoxes

119

Keeping Cool with Carol Carter

120

Change Calls the Tune We Dance To

121

Let Fear Be Your Teacher

122

Emotional Sobriety & Self-Respect

123

Every Life Is Worth a Novel

124

Depression's Long Game

125

Freedom at Cost

126

Shifting to the Best Possible Attitude

127

A New Way of Making Amends

128

When the Road Meets the Rubber

129

When the Rubber Meets the Road

130

True Acceptance

131

The Decision Maker

132

Emotional Sobriety, Stewardship & Service (Part Two)

133

Emotional Sobriety, Stewardship & Service (Part One)

134

A New Perspective on Failure

135

Authentic Values

136

Ripple Effect

137

“Maddiction” with Joe C.

138

Radical Honesty

139

Practice Makes Practice

140

Philosophy over Psychology with Tom Potash

141

A Spiritual Path Through Emotional Sobriety

142

Living Consciously with Roger Andes

143

Meditating on the New Year with Herb Kaighan

144

More Will Be Revealed with Joe C.

145

Higher and Friendly Powers with Dr. Peg O’Connor

146

Our Inner Civil War

147

The Importance (and Difficulty!) of Our Daily Practice

148

Thanksgiving Survival Guide

149

The Holidays: Come As You Are

150

Between Wisdom & Discipline

151

Thom & Allen at the ICSAA

152

Making the Most of Fellowship & Support

153

What Progress Am I Making?

154

Room for All

155

Living in the Moment

156

A New Self-Esteem

157

Secular Recovery with Joe C.

158

Managing Anxiety with Gina Ryan

159

Emotional Sobriety at Work

160

What Love Is

161

Neutralizing Fear

162

Recovery 2.0 with Tommy Rosen

163

Getting Disappointments to Work for Us

164

Overcoming Disappointments

165

Integrating Role Models

166

Nihilism and Perfectionism are "Kissing Cousins"

167

Defeating Nihilism

168

Finding Inner Peace

169

Bonding with Dad

170

Adding Self to Intimate Relationships

171

Love vs. Dependency

172

Milestones in Early Recovery

173

Grief and Flexibility

174

Mother's Day

175

Navigating Marriage (Part One)

176

Showing Up for Ourselves

177

Therapeutic Improv with Brian Lutz

178

Conflict Resolution: Taking Emotional Sobriety into Traffic

179

Practical Solutions to Challenging Perfectionism

180

Episode Forty-Five: Perfectionism is a Destructive Belief System

181

Episode Forty-Four: Emotional Sobriety as Philosophy (Part Two)

182

Episode Forty-Three: Emotional Sobriety as Philosophy (Part One)

183

Episode Forty-Two: Summarizing “12 Essential Insights for Emotional Sobriety”

184

Episode Forty-One: Busting Shame with Dr. Shawn Horn

185

Episode Forty: Paddling Your Own Canoe

186

Episode Thirty-Nine: Jefferson Ross and "Southern Currency"

187

Episode Thirty-Eight: Holding Onto Ourselves in Relationships (Part Two)

188

Episode Thirty-Seven: Holding Onto Ourselves in Relationships (Part One)

189

Episode Thirty-Six: Allen’s Sponsor (Part Two)

190

Episode Thirty-Five: Allen’s Sponsor (Part One)

191

Episode Thirty-Four: Living a Purposeful Life (Part Two)

192

Episode Thirty-Three: Living a Purposeful Life (Part One)

193

Episode Thirty-Two: Healing Through Forgiveness (Part Two)

194

Episode Thirty-One: Brian Cuban on Recovery & Self-Hate

195

Episode Thirty: Healing Through Forgiveness (Part One)

196

Episode Twenty-Nine: Perfectionism and the Holidays

197

Episode Twenty-Eight: Breaking the Bonds of Perfectionism

198

Episode Twenty-Seven: Discovering Novel Solutions

199

Episode Twenty-Six: Living Life on Life’s Terms (Part Two)

200

Episode Twenty-Five: Living Life on Life’s Terms (Part One)

201

Episode Twenty-Four: Accepting What Is

202

Episode Twenty-Three: Recognizing the Problems in Our Relationships as Opportunities

203

Episode Twenty-Two: "Sober Enough" with Joe. C