The Embrace Family Recovery Podcast

What a happy surprise to have my 86th episode of The Embrace Family Podcast go live on Christmas Day! An opportunity to wind down 2022 with some readings from recovery literature, a beneficial poem n…

In today's Embrace Family Recovery Podcast episode, # 85, Randy Grimes continues his story with the redemption part! Randy wrote his powerful memoir, 'Off Center,"  to demonstrate that hope and heali…

 Randy Grimes, who played center for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, takes us further into his powerful story of "addiction, recovery, and redemption."
 I know there are a lot of schools of thought about "b…

I believe addiction is an equal opportunity disease, and today it is my privilege to share the beginning of my conversation with Randy Grimes, who demonstrates this. As you will hear today, Randy cam…

I recently had the opportunity to be a guest with Gloria Englund to speak about our upcoming retreat, 'A Different Kind of Grief,' on the Behavioral Health Integration Podcast hosted by Jacob Minnig.…

Today's Episode of The Embrace Family Recovery Podcast continues to feature Tennie McCarty, author, and founder of Shades of Hope Treatment Center. If you have listened to Tennie in the prior two epi…

I recorded my conversation with Tennie McCarty a while ago, and this is episode 80 of The Embrace Family Recovery Podcast. It is the episode where Tennie shared that she will turn 80 in December! 
In …

I have come to believe that my Higher Power shows up in skin to give me messages. My job is to stay open to whomever the messenger might be. Today I have the honor to introduce you to Tennie McCarty,…

The Creative High is described as nine artists in recovery from addiction who are transformed by creativity in their turbulent search for identity and freedom. The journalist and film critic Micheal …

I am privileged to introduce you to Adriana Marchione, the Director, and Dianne Griffin, the Producer of The Creative High, a documentary featuring nine artists in recovery from addiction transformed…

In this episode, the final of three, Amy C. Sullivan, the author of 'Opioid Reckoning Love, Loss, and Redemption in The Rehab State,' shares more about family members' powerlessness. 

Sullivan masterf…

All of us who have loved someone with the disease of addiction know the struggle regarding the stigma surrounding this disease. Amy C. Sullivan, mother of a daughter with a substance use disorder and…

Today it is my privilege to introduce you to Amy C. Sullivan, the author of 'Opioid Reckoning Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State.' Amy shares what led her to write this book from research …

Today is the final episode with Gloria Englund, the author of 'Living in the Wake of Addiction℠. ' You will hear Gloria's story of how she came to write her book and develop her business, Recovering …

Today Gloria Englund, the author of 'Living in the Wake of Addiction'℠and founder of Recovering U, which offers recovery coaching, grief support, and training, continues to share her personal and gri…

Here we go, my first guest of the 3rd season of The Embrace Family Recovery Podcast!
I am thrilled to introduce you to Gloria Englund. Gloria is a mother whose qualifier was Aaron, her oldest son, wh…

We are back!!!
I am happy to report a summer of moderate, if not radical, self-care has happened. Drop a comment below and share what self-caring action step you took this summer! How did you do?
As we…

I read this question on a She Recovers email, and it struck me that it was a possible God Wink!  
How can you let go of what no longer serves you and call in how you want to feel?
In this short episode…

Today I have another solo episode!
I am sharing about one of my favorite recovery tools. I found myself giggling at the reality of telling my story with the language of "I need to take you back to 199…

Today is our final episode with Judge Amber, and it is phenomenal the many tools that her Drug Wellness Court participants receive in their program.
The statistics and the stories of recovery add to m…