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Relationships in Early Sobriety, Beware
Everyone warned me against getting involved in new relationships in early sobriety. Unfortunately, I don't always listen so well. From the start of my recovery, I felt like I could do just about...
Why Finding Yourself in Sobriety Matters
Finding yourself in sobriety is something you should work on every day. Knowing yourself can help you avoid stress and possible relapse. When I was in the deepest part of my alcohol addiction, I...
People-Pleasing and Addiction: A Likely Combination
There is nothing wrong with wanting to make the people we care about happy. In fact, we all do it in one way or another and from time to time. We make decisions to do things, whether we want to or...
Meditation for Alcohol Recovery in 5 Easy Steps
Regardless of where you are in your recovery journey, you have probably heard people talking about the benefits of meditation for alcohol recovery. Those benefits are real. Meditation in recovery...
Grieving Alcohol: It’s Okay to Be Sad
When most of us think of grieving, we also think of death. There are, however, many things we grieve that have nothing to do with losing a loved one. As someone who has struggled with drugs or...
Tribe Sober is changing lives!
In this Episode: In this episode of Back Porch Chats, we talk to Janet Gourand who quit drinking after a long struggle with alcohol. She tells how she finally got sober in 2015 when she found her...
Living behind the Mask of Mental Illness
Charlene Madden joins this episode of Back Porch Chats to share her story of childhood sexual violence, domestic abuse, mental illness, and suicide ideation. Listen as Vince and Jeanna have an open...
Confidence in Recovery: Relapse Is Not an Option!
I almost couldn’t believe it the day I walked out of a meeting and someone said to me, "You're going to fall off of that pink cloud." It stopped me straight in my tracks. How could he say that?...
Masculine Anger with Stephan and Vince
In this episode: Stephan Neff is an anesthetist, bestselling author, speaker and show host, and alcoholic in recovery. Stephan knows the challenges of trauma, depression, anxiety, and PTSD...
Sailing Sober with Paul Trammell
In this Episode: In this episode of Back Porch Chats, we talk to the author of seven books, Paul Trammell about living sober as a solo sailor. Paul talks about how his decision to stop drinking...
