Emotional Sobriety: The Next Step in Recovery
By Allen Berger & Thom Rutledge
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Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholic's Anonymous, wrote in 1952, "If we examine every disturbance we have, great or small, we will find at the root some unhealthy dependence and its consequent demand." Wilson suggested that if we could identify and continually surrender these unrealistic and unrecognizable demands, that we may then be able to accomplish what he imagined to be recovery's next frontier - something he called emotional sobriety.
Flash forward 70 years, and join psychotherapists and best-selling authors Thom Rutledge and Dr. Allen Berger, who have taken up the mantle of exploring Bill Wilson's new frontier. Welcome to Emotional Sobriety.
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The Five Points of Balance, Part Two
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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The Five Points of Balance, Part One
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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It’s Not About Just Waking Up, It’s About Growing Up
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May 24, 2026 |
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Made a Searching & Fearless Moral Inventory (Of Someone Else)
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May 12, 2026 |
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We Are More Capable Than We Realize
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May 05, 2026 |
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“My Brain Would Kill Me if It Didn’t Need the Transportation”
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Don't Stop Before You Even Start!
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Disappointments Are Not Obstacles
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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Anger is Just Another Feeling
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Moving Forward After Relapse, Part Two
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Moving Forward After Relapse, Part One
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Mar 08, 2026 |
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Adjustments at Close Range
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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“The Power of Gentle Presence” with John Amodeo
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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Whitehat Addictions
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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Excavating Your Lost Self
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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"Focus Mokus" with Joe C.
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Personal Agency in Emotional Sobriety
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Tout Est Possible
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Resilience Myths
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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Self-Supporting Holiday
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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“God Doesn’t Flunk Anyone, but He Gives a Lot of Re-Tests”
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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Holidays Aren’t So Bad! (Unless You Get Kicked by a Horse)
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Your Family Is Your Alma Mater
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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"You’re the One You’ve Been Waiting For" with Melanie Gulde
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Codependency and Emotional Sobriety
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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The Merry-Go-Round
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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Emotional Sobriety & Creativity with Michael J. Harney
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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The Bedroom Opens off the Living Room
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Trauma is Subjective
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Beliefs Are Choices
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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Close to the Ditch
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Streamline Your Thinking!
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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"I Am Not a Counselor"
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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The Reverse Golden Rule
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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“Sobriety Didn’t Solve My Problems, It Exposed Them”
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Second First Steps
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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Are These Extravagant Promises? Inconceivable!
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Right-Sized Expressions
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Letting Go Never Stops
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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“Lift My Lamp Beside the Golden Door”
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Jun 14, 2025 |
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Recovery Capital with Samantha Duggan
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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Staying In
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May 30, 2025 |
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Bright Sunshine in the Rat Park with Dr. Carl Erik Fisher
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May 17, 2025 |
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Flowing with Becoming feat. Joe C.
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May 11, 2025 |
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Inukshuk with Julia Heidmann
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May 03, 2025 |
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Proficiency vs. Perfection
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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To Be Human Is to Be Impacted
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Gratitude, Humility, and Awe
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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For the Newcomers
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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Uncertainty and Emotional Sobriety
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Filing with the Complaint Department
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Newfound Responsibility
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Emotions Are (Part Of) the Solution
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Guidance vs. Advice
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Re-Solving
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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The Regret Reduction Program
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Emotional Sobriety and Love
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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Seeing More, Seeing Further
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Awareness is the Foundation
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Surviving Fire
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Post-Traumatic Gains
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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2024 in Review
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Lucky Attachments
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Any Port in a Storm
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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Early Holiday Observations with Joe C.
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Acorn to Oak Tree with Herb K.
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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How's Your Practice?
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Emotional Sobriety as “Democratic Pluralism”
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Acknowledging & Accepting Another Perspective
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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Expanding the Zone of Comfort
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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In Pardoning, We Are Pardoned
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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He Doth Protest Too Much (Missive from ICSAA)!
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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So Worth Living
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Grip Lightly
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Challenging Core Beliefs
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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When We Need Outside Help
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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Accepting the Road Ahead with Dr. Shawn Horn
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Stay Connected & Add More Self
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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Balancing on the Relational Beam
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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Beating the Questionnaire
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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Hurtling Towards Serenity
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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Life Goes On
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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Get Quiet, and Listen
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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Connection/Hope/Identity/Meaning/Empowement
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Never Judge Your Earlier Self by What You Know Today
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May 27, 2024 |
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Spiritual GPS
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May 20, 2024 |
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Any Way You Slice It (Cheerio to London!)
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May 12, 2024 |
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Make Plans, Don’t Plan the Results!
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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So Worth It
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Courage to Change
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Dream Come True
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Party Guy
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Getting the Help
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Unity = Love
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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"The Experiment" with Sara Stromberg
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Passing It On
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Está Bien
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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"Fear of Economic Insecurity Will Leave Us"
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Little Surrenders
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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It All Adds Up
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Tending Our Gardens
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Our Way of Life with Herb K.
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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To Crush and Not Be Crushed
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Moving Beyond Our Challenging Year
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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Happy Happy, Joy Joy
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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The Dubious Importance of "Being Right"
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Adapting to the Unexpected
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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What Aren’t We Thankful For?
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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On the Rocks
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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“There Ain’t No Easy Cancer”
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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New Recovery From Trauma and PTSD
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Recovery in Poetry with Janine McJannett
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Daily Practices on Recovery's Frontier (with Patrick McAteer)
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Oh, the Places We’ll Go (with Joe C.)
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Emotional Sobriety in Residential Treatment
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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It’s Never Too Late
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Awakening Our Truest Selves
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Surviving and Thriving in Motherhood with Celeste Yvonne
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Self-Esteem and Emotional Sobriety with Roger Andes
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Recovery's Paradoxes
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Keeping Cool with Carol Carter
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Change Calls the Tune We Dance To
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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Let Fear Be Your Teacher
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Emotional Sobriety & Self-Respect
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Every Life Is Worth a Novel
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Depression's Long Game
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May 29, 2023 |
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Freedom at Cost
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May 21, 2023 |
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Shifting to the Best Possible Attitude
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May 01, 2023 |
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A New Way of Making Amends
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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When the Road Meets the Rubber
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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When the Rubber Meets the Road
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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True Acceptance
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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The Decision Maker
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Emotional Sobriety, Stewardship & Service (Part Two)
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Emotional Sobriety, Stewardship & Service (Part One)
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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A New Perspective on Failure
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Authentic Values
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Ripple Effect
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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“Maddiction” with Joe C.
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Radical Honesty
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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Practice Makes Practice
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Philosophy over Psychology with Tom Potash
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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A Spiritual Path Through Emotional Sobriety
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Living Consciously with Roger Andes
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Meditating on the New Year with Herb Kaighan
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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More Will Be Revealed with Joe C.
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Higher and Friendly Powers with Dr. Peg O’Connor
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Our Inner Civil War
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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The Importance (and Difficulty!) of Our Daily Practice
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Thanksgiving Survival Guide
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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The Holidays: Come As You Are
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Between Wisdom & Discipline
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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Thom & Allen at the ICSAA
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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Making the Most of Fellowship & Support
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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What Progress Am I Making?
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Oct 16, 2022 |
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Room for All
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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Living in the Moment
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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A New Self-Esteem
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Secular Recovery with Joe C.
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Managing Anxiety with Gina Ryan
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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Emotional Sobriety at Work
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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What Love Is
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Aug 28, 2022 |
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Neutralizing Fear
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Aug 14, 2022 |
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Recovery 2.0 with Tommy Rosen
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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Getting Disappointments to Work for Us
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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Overcoming Disappointments
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Jul 23, 2022 |
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Integrating Role Models
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Jul 17, 2022 |
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Nihilism and Perfectionism are "Kissing Cousins"
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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Defeating Nihilism
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Finding Inner Peace
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Bonding with Dad
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Adding Self to Intimate Relationships
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Love vs. Dependency
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Milestones in Early Recovery
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May 30, 2022 |
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Grief and Flexibility
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May 16, 2022 |
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Mother's Day
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May 08, 2022 |
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Navigating Marriage (Part One)
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May 02, 2022 |
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Showing Up for Ourselves
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Therapeutic Improv with Brian Lutz
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Apr 17, 2022 |
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Conflict Resolution: Taking Emotional Sobriety into Traffic
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Practical Solutions to Challenging Perfectionism
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Episode Forty-Five: Perfectionism is a Destructive Belief System
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Episode Forty-Four: Emotional Sobriety as Philosophy (Part Two)
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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Episode Forty-Three: Emotional Sobriety as Philosophy (Part One)
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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Episode Forty-Two: Summarizing “12 Essential Insights for Emotional Sobriety”
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Episode Forty-One: Busting Shame with Dr. Shawn Horn
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Episode Forty: Paddling Your Own Canoe
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Episode Thirty-Nine: Jefferson Ross and "Southern Currency"
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Episode Thirty-Eight: Holding Onto Ourselves in Relationships (Part Two)
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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Episode Thirty-Seven: Holding Onto Ourselves in Relationships (Part One)
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Episode Thirty-Six: Allen’s Sponsor (Part Two)
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Episode Thirty-Five: Allen’s Sponsor (Part One)
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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Episode Thirty-Four: Living a Purposeful Life (Part Two)
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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Episode Thirty-Three: Living a Purposeful Life (Part One)
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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Episode Thirty-Two: Healing Through Forgiveness (Part Two)
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Episode Thirty-One: Brian Cuban on Recovery & Self-Hate
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Episode Thirty: Healing Through Forgiveness (Part One)
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Episode Twenty-Nine: Perfectionism and the Holidays
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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Episode Twenty-Eight: Breaking the Bonds of Perfectionism
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Nov 22, 2021 |