Sick & Tired Recovery

Send us Fan Mail On this Sick and Tired Recovery Podcast episode, I talk with Trace, a subtle energy practitioner, about emotional awareness and recovery.  We discuss how gratitude can shift perspective, why self-love matters in relationships, and how the 12 steps can help people reconnect with self-acceptance.  Trace also shares her personal journey through illness and hardship and explains how s...

Send us Fan Mail What if the voice telling you to quit is the one keeping you stuck?  Zuma (the swearing therapist), shares how discipline, self-talk, and resilience helped her navigate addiction, cancer, and major life changes. From quitting smoking one craving at a time to going back to school later in life, her story is a reminder that it’s never too late to pursue a new chapter. This conversat...

Send us Fan Mail Self-medicating is often just a symptom of something deeper.  In this episode, my guest Marie, explains why real transformation begins when we stop chasing control and start rebuilding trust, self-love, and inner peace from the inside out. If you have ever felt trapped in anxiety, over-caretaking, emotional reactivity, or habits that numb rather than heal, this conversation will r...

Send us Fan Mail Someone asked me during a live what I thought about religion. My answer was pretty simple: I don’t judge anybody’s religion, and I’m not interested in telling people what they should or shouldn’t believe. In recovery, we often say this is a spiritual, not religious, program. Over the years, I’ve learned to stay pretty close to that lane. For me, spirituality has become less about...

Send us Fan Mail There comes a point when we get tired of the consequences, tired of the pain, tired of making the same promises to ourselves—and sick and tired of ending up right back where we started. But having enough and being ready to change aren’t always the same thing. In this episode, my guest and I share our own experiences with reaching that place where we knew something had to change. W...

Send us Fan Mail I came into recovery thinking I had a drug problem. And looking at my life at the time, it made sense. Drugs had taken me places I never thought I would go. So naturally, I believed getting clean would solve the problem. But something happened when I stopped using. I began to realize that getting rid of the drugs didn't automatically change the way I thought, felt, behaved, o...

Send us Fan Mail Learning to love yourself isn't something that happens overnight. It's a process of remembering who you were before fear, rejection, shame, and survival taught you to become someone else. Many of us spend years trying to earn love from other people while neglecting the relationship we have with ourselves. We criticize ourselves, ignore our needs, abandon our values, and...

Send us Fan Mail Why do so many people lose themselves when they fall in love? It rarely happens all at once. Instead, it happens through small compromises, people-pleasing, fear of rejection, and slowly placing someone else's needs, opinions, and approval above your own. What begins as love can quietly become self-abandonment. In this episode of Sick & Tired Recovery, we explore the deep...

Send us Fan Mail Recovery isn't always exciting. There are seasons when everything feels new, hopeful, and full of momentum. Then there are seasons when recovery feels ordinary, repetitive, and even boring. The truth is, healing isn't built on constant excitement. It's built on consistency. Learning to live without the chaos, drama, and stimulation that once drove us can feel uncomf...

Send us Fan Mail Can someone sound recovered without actually recovering? In this episode, we explore one of the most subtle traps in recovery: mistaking knowledge, self-awareness, and powerful sharing for genuine transformation. Many of us learn the language of recovery long before we fully practice it. We know what to say, how to tell our story, and how to inspire others. But real recovery isn&a...

Send us Fan Mail Clean time can look good on paper… but that doesn’t mean anything has actually changed. A lot of people stop using—but never deal with the thinking, the behavior, or the pain that drove them there in the first place. That’s not recovery. That’s just time passing. Real recovery is about transformation, not just abstinence. If your life still feels the same, your relationships are s...

Send us Fan Mail ​Reaching a milestone of 16 years isn't about a single moment of clarity; it’s about what happens when the initial hype dies down and you’re left with the daily work.  In this episode, I’m stripping away the false images of long-term change. We’re getting into the "how"—the raw, upfront reality of staying the course when life gets heavy.  No masks, just the facts of...