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Recovery Decoded — 78 episodes
What It Did to You — and What You Did With It
Why Being Hard on Yourself Is Not Helping — The Research on Self-Compassion, Self-Criticism, and Why One Predicts Relapse and the Other Predicts Recovery
You Are Not Your Patterns — Why the Blueprint Is Not the Building, and What the Research Says It Actually Takes to Change Something Installed Before You Had a Choice
How Growing Up Around Addiction Shaped Who You Became — The Science of Identity Foreclosure, What It Means That the Self You Built Was Never Fully Chosen, and What to Do In the Parent Relationship Now
Why You Were More Likely — The Science of How Growing Up Around Addiction Elevated Your Own Risk for Substance Use, and What That Risk Is Actually Made Of
The Body, Decades Later — What the Nervous System Has Been Doing to Your Physical Health Since Childhood, and Why the Connection Has Never Been Made
The Relationships You Built — What Growing Up Around Addiction Taught Your Nervous System Love Is Supposed to Look Like, and Why That Lesson Is Still Running
What You Told Yourself to Survive — The Cognitive Adaptations That Kept You Safe as a Child and What They Cost You as an Adult
The Body Kept the Score Too — What Growing Up Around Addiction Stored in Your Nervous System, and Why It Is Still There
The Attachment Blueprint — What Your Childhood Taught Your Nervous System Love Is Supposed to Feel Like, and Why That Lesson Is Still Running in Every Relationship You Have
If you grew up in a house where someone's drinking or drug use effected the home — this is the first season built specifically for your experience. Here is what science says about what it did to you.
The Invisible ACE — Why Household Addiction Is One of the Ten Documented Adverse Childhood Experiences, What Dose-Response Data Actually Says About Your Specific Risk, and Why Nobody Told You This
What Unpredictability Does — The Science of Growing Up Without a Reliable Floor, and Why Your Nervous System Is Still Looking for One
At Home — What Growing Up Around Alcohol or Drugs Actually Did to You, and Why You May Be the First Person Anyone Has Ever Explained This To
Season Finale — The Root
Post-Traumatic Growth — What the Research Says Actually Changes When the Work Is Done, and Why Growth Is Not the Same as Forgetting
When the Wound Came From Someone You Loved — Relational Trauma and Why the Hardest Wounds to Heal Are the Ones That Came From the People You Needed Most
What Trauma-Informed Treatment Actually Means — And How to Know Whether You Are Getting It
The Grief Nobody Named — What Happens When You Lose Something That Was Never Officially Yours to Lose
It Didn't Start With You — The Science of Intergenerational Trauma and Why You May Be Carrying a Wound That Belongs to Someone Who Came Before You
The Shame That Lives Deeper Than What You Did — Moral Injury, Identity-Level Shame, and Why Sobriety Alone Does Not Reach the Part of You That Believes It Deserves to Suffer
Complex-PTSD Is Not What You Think It Is — The Difference Between a Single Traumatic Event and a Nervous System That Was Built Inside Ongoing Threat
When You Became the Person Who Managed Everything — The Trauma Role You Were Assigned Before You Were Old Enough to Refuse It
The People Who Were Supposed to Keep You Safe — Attachment, Early Relationships, and Why the Root Often Begins With the People You Loved Most
Why You Used — The Science of Self-Medication and Why Your Brain Chose That Specific Thing
The Body Never Forgot — What Trauma Stored in You That Your Mind Could Not Hold
What Trauma Does to the Brain — Why Your Nervous System Is Not Overreacting, It Is Doing Exactly What It Was Trained to Do
What Trauma Actually Is — Why Most People in Recovery Have It Without Knowing It, and Why the Word Belongs to You Too
Long-Term Sobriety — What Happens to Your Brain and Body After the First Year, Why Recovery Keeps Getting Better, and the Science of Building a Life That Lasts
Medication for Addiction Treatment — What Methadone, Suboxone, and Naltrexone Actually Do, Why the Stigma Is Wrong, and the Truth About Kratom, Benzos, and Weed in Recovery
Sex and Intimacy in Recovery — Why Sobriety Affects Your Sex Drive and Sexual Function, What Testosterone and Hormones Do in Recovery, and How to Talk About It
Why You Keep Getting Sick After Getting Sober — How Alcohol and Drugs Damage Your Immune System and When It Finally Recovers
What to Eat in Recovery — How Food Helps Your Brain Heal After Addiction, What Nutrients Alcohol and Drugs Deplete, and Simple Changes That Make a Real Difference
Sugar, Caffeine, and Cravings in Recovery — Why Your Brain Swaps One Addiction for Another and What to Do When Coffee and Sweets Become Your New Fix
Chronic Pain and Getting Sober — Why Pain Gets Worse in Early Recovery, What Opioids Do to Pain Sensitivity, and How to Manage Pain Without Going Back
The Gut and Your Mood in Recovery — How Your Stomach Affects Your Brain, Why Sobriety Changes Your Digestion, and What to Do About It
What Opioids, Cocaine, and Other Drugs Actually Did to Your Body — The Physical Damage From Drug Use and What Recovers When You Get Clean
What Alcohol Actually Does to Your Body — Liver, Brain, and Gut Damage From Drinking and What Heals When You Get Sober
Why Your Body Feels Broken in Early Sobriety — The Real Reason You're Exhausted, Foggy, and Emotional After Quitting Drinking or Drugs
Why Can't I Sleep? How Getting Sober Disrupts Your Sleep — What's Really Happening in Your Brain During Recovery and What Helps
The Long Game | The Life You Build Is The Recovery
Your Record Follows You | Your Past On Paper And What You Can Do About It
Who Are You Now | Finding Yourself When Everything Has Changed
The Truth About Medication In Recovery | Your Medication Is Not A Crutch
Learning To Trust Again | Rebuilding Relationships When Your Brain Says No
The Roof | Finding And Keeping A Place To Live In Recovery
The Empty Room | Why Recovery Is Lonely And What To Do About It
The Old Life Keeps Calling | Why You Want To Go Back And How To Build Something New
The Body After | Physical Healing On Your Timeline
The Resume Gap | Getting A Job When You Have A Record And A Story
The Money Wound | Rebuilding Your Finances When You Are Starting Over
The Long Heal | How Your Brain Recovers Over Months And Years
How To Heal After Addiction Together
What To Do When They Relapse
How To Handle Holidays And Social Events With Someone Who Has An Addiction
Your Brother Or Sister Is An Addict And Nobody Asked How You Are
Your Adult Child Is An Addict And You Do Not Know What To Do
How A Parent's Addiction Affects Children At Every Age
Deciding Whether To Stay Or Leave Someone In Recovery
Your Partner Is In Recovery And Your Relationship Is Struggling
Grieving Someone Still Alive But Lost To Addiction
The Anger You Feel About Their Addiction Is Not Wrong
When Helping Your Addicted Loved One Makes It Worse
How Being Around An Addict Changed Your Brain
Your 90 Days
Relapse
Everyone Around you
When You Feel Nothing
Daily Architecture
The One Nerve | Vagus Nerve
The Shame
Do It For You
The Treatment Spectrum | Different Therapy Approaches
The Recovery Models | Major 12 Step Programs Similarities and Differences To Help You Choose What Fits You
The Craving Decoder
The Stress Switch | HPA Axis, The Amygdala, and More
The Sleep Architect | Your Brains Adjustment To Sleep When In Recovery
Dopamine Blueprint | How To Bring Back Feeling Good Without Drugs or Alcohol