GET UNHOOKED PODCAST

Send us Fan Mail What if your loved one doesn’t change right away? What if they’re still struggling, still making choices you don’t understand, and still leaving you wondering, “Am I doing enough? Am I helping? Am I enabling? Am I just stuck in the same painful loop?” In this episode of Get Unhooked , Jason closes out week six of the family recovery masterclass with a powerful reminder: your freed...

Send us Fan Mail What if the words “I’m sorry” are not enough? In this episode of Brick House, Jason Coombs walks through one of the most powerful parts of recovery: making real amends. Not the kind that asks someone else to hurry up and forgive you. Not the kind that tries to erase the past with one emotional conversation. Real amends are different. They require honesty, specificity, humility, an...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Brick House Podcast , Jason Coombs shares a powerful conversation from just outside Yellowstone, beginning with a personal story about seeing wild bears with his wife during a sacred season of her cancer journey. From there, Jason leads listeners into a deeper discussion on Step 9, grief, surrender, and what it really means to make amends. So often, families...

Send us Fan Mail When you love someone struggling with addiction, even a simple conversation can feel like walking into a courtroom, a battlefield, or a trap. You want to help. You want to say the right thing. You want them to open up, be honest, and finally see what you see. But too often, the conversation turns into defensiveness, arguing, guilt, shutdown, or another exhausting ride on the addic...

Send us Fan Mail What if the biggest mistake families make in addiction recovery is focusing on the wrong mountain? In this episode, Jason shares a deeply personal reflection after celebrating his birth son’s 19th birthday—a moment that reminded him just how impossible recovery once felt. For years, addiction felt like an endless cycle of trying, failing, promising, and starting over. The distance...

Send us Fan Mail If you have an addicted loved one and you have been holding everything together for longer than you can remember, this is the episode where it starts to come apart, in the best possible way. Jason takes you inside one of the most pivotal weeks of the six-week Live Unhooked Masterclass. You will learn why cleaning the goldfish never works, what really happens in Step Four of recove...

Send us Fan Mail You're still functioning. You're answering the crisis calls, researching treatment centers, watching for signs, holding the family together. But underneath all of it, your own oxygen is getting thinner. In the opening week of the Unhooked Masterclass, Jason Coombs sits down with families who love someone with substance use disorder and names what most of them already fee...

Send us Fan Mail EPISODE 57 -DESCRIPTION  Two commercial pilots had a checklist for a cabin pressure problem. They followed every step except one. The plane crashed and everyone on board died. If you love someone with addiction, you've been making the same mistake. In Episode 57, Jason Coombs teaches the emotional raincoat: the one shift that separates families who burn out from families who...

Send us Fan Mail If you’re the mom, dad, or spouse who has become the detective, the cleanup crew, and the emotional first responder, this one is for you. In this solo episode, Jason Coombs sits down with the families who are exhausted from organizing their entire lives around someone else’s addiction. He shares the one shift that changes everything: your loved one’s recovery begins when you chang...

Send us Fan Mail Everyone is talking about ibogaine like it’s the cure for addiction. I’m telling you why I’m saying no. You’ve probably heard the buzz. A “breakthrough.” A “reset.” Maybe even the answer your family has been praying for. Ibogaine is everywhere right now. Podcasts. Headlines. Conversations between people who are desperate for something to finally work. So let’s talk about it. In th...

Send us Fan Mail Seventeen years ago, I was a difficult, entitled client who had already failed four treatment centers. HR Brown owned the place where I finally got sober. He pulled me into his office one day, told me part of his story, and handed me his 12-year sobriety coin. He asked me to make a deal: in 12 years, I’d give that coin to a newcomer, and he’d hand me his 24-year coin. That moment...

Send us Fan Mail You’ve tried everything. Nothing’s working. And somewhere in the back of your mind, you’re wondering if you’re making it worse. This episode is for you. Jason Coombs breaks down the Desperation to Decision Ladder: a five-rung framework that maps exactly where your loved one is in their journey toward change, and what your role actually looks like at each rung. Practical, honest, a...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when a woman’s heart finally gets the space to heal? Jason sits down with Melanie Meszaros, co-founder of Heart of a Woman retreats, to talk about the three core desires every woman carries, what fathers can do to protect their daughters, and why restored hearts don’t just change women — they change entire families. Show Notes There’s a metaphor I keep coming back to...

Send us Fan Mail What if the most loving thing a family can do is stop helping? In this raw solo episode, Jason Coombs shares the unfiltered story of his addiction, his parents’ breaking point, and the family therapy moment that changed everything: “Get off the beach.” If you’re exhausted from absorbing the waves of someone else’s addiction, this episode was made for you. There’s a moment in almos...

Send us Fan Mail There’s a moment most families never forget. It’s not the first time they found the pills. It’s not the arrest, or the call from the hospital, or the Christmas that fell apart. It’s quieter than that. It’s the moment they realize that everything they did out of love, the bail, the hotel rooms, the money on the jail books, the middle-of-the-night rescues, may have been feeding the...

Send us Fan Mail When Helping Hurts: The Gift of Desperation in Family Recovery In this episode, Jason Coombs tackles one of the hardest truths in family recovery: sometimes helping actually hurts. Drawing from Chapter 6 of Unhooked, Jason shares his personal rock bottom and explains why desperation is often the turning point that families try hardest to prevent. When we rescue, soften consequence...

Send us Fan Mail In this deeply personal episode of the Get Unhooked Podcast, Jason Coombs sits down with Donna Pope, Executive Director of Heart to Heart Adoptions and an adoption advocate with more than 25 years of experience. Together, they explore the rarely discussed intersection of adoption, addiction, and purpose through both professional insight and lived experience. Jason shares his persp...

Send us Fan Mail When a family is living through addiction, most of the focus falls on parents and spouses. But siblings carry their own kind of heartbreak, confusion, and hope. In this episode of the Get Unhooked Podcast, Jason Coombs is joined by his brother Cory, his sister Melissa, and co-host Jennifer Chase for an honest conversation about the sibling experience in family recovery. They talk...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 46: How Do I Navigate Relapse? - Understanding the Cycle of Change Relapse is one of the most feared words in a family’s recovery vocabulary. It shatters trust, reignites fear, and leaves everyone asking the same desperate question: Why would they go back after everything they’ve been through? In this raw and revealing episode of the Get Unhooked Podcast, Jason Coombs pull...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 45: Jason Coombs on That Sober Guy Podcast with Shane Ramer A wide-ranging conversation on recovery, faith, fatherhood, identity, and the daily work of staying sober. In this episode, you’ll hear: How a legitimate injury and pain pills turned into a life-consuming spiral The collapse of an OxyContin supply chain and why heroin surged next What it’s like to survive homeless...

Send us Fan Mail Why You Say You Want Peace… But Refuse to Do the One Thing That Brings It Most families say they want peace. But when it comes time to grieve the loss of the relationship they hoped for… they tighten their grip instead. In this deeply honest episode, Jason reveals: Why control disguises itself as love How fear keeps families emotionally hooked The grief step most people skip Why s...

Send us Fan Mail You set the boundary. They break it. Again. And somehow, you end up feeling like the bad guy. If you’ve ever tried to hold the line with an addicted loved one—only to second-guess yourself, give in, or get gaslit—this episode is for you. In Episode 43 of the Get Unhooked Podcast, Jason unpacks the BOUNDARY Framework—a practical, compassionate tool for setting and holding boundarie...

Send us Fan Mail 🎙️ “When Numb Isn’t Working Anymore – The Battle to Live Fully Alive” with Doug Nielson In this soul-stirring Part 3 of the Warrior Heart series, Jason Coombs sits down with licensed psychotherapist and Warrior Heart co-founder Doug Nielsen to uncover what really keeps men stuck in cycles of addiction, burnout, and emotional disconnection—and what it takes to break free. Drawing f...

Send us Fan Mail Dropping the Pose Is Where Healing Starts. I used to think most men were struggling with behavior. But a lot of the time, they’re struggling with hiding. In Part 2 of the Warrior Heart series, I sit down with Duane Crabtree, Executive Director of Warrior Heart, to talk about the mask men wear and why most of us don’t even see it. What looks like confidence is often fear. What look...

Send us Fan Mail Recovery doesn’t end when you get sober. For many men, the real work starts after the crisis passes. In Episode 40 of Get Unhooked, Jason Coombs shares why long-term sobriety still isn’t the same as emotional and spiritual freedom. After years in recovery, he found a new layer of healing through Warrior Heart Bootcamp, a three-day, phone-free men’s retreat designed to help men rec...