Recovery For The Rest Of Us: Real Tools for Families of Addicts and Alcoholics

There's a particular kind of exhaustion that doesn't have a name for people who haven't lived it — the kind that comes not from what happened today but from years of bracing for what might happen tomorrow. If you love someone with addiction, you know exactly what that feels like. You've rearranged your life around someone else's disease. You've tried everything. And you're tired in ways that sleep doesn't fix. Recovery For The Rest Of Us is a podcast for family members and loved ones of people with addiction — the people whose recovery doesn't always get the same airtime as the addict's, but who need it just as much. Host Dave H . has lived this from every angle: he grew up with addiction, struggled with it himself, found recovery, and is now a parent watching his own children fight the same disease. With over 30 years of sobriety and 15 years in Al-Anon — sponsoring people in both programs — he teaches what he calls the practice of imperfection: finding serenity, losing it, and finding it again. Each episode brings together two kinds of conversations: solo teachings where Dave works through the tools directly — detachment, boundaries, forgiveness, the Three A's — and guest conversations with family members, people in recovery, sponsors, and therapists who work in the rooms. The through-line is always the same question: how do you find serenity when someone you love is still struggling? The answer isn't about them. It's about you — stopping the act of carrying poison you didn't pour, tending your own life, and finding peace not because the situation improved, but because you did. Your serenity doesn't require their sobriety.

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  Episode #4

  When Letting Go Still Includes Parenting

  Aug 26, 202613 minS0

  <p>No perfect combination of rules, vigilance, consequences, and midnight worry can manufacture willingness inside another person. That limit can feel unbearable to a frightened parent, especially when the child is still young enough to need protection and old enough to resist it.</p>

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  Expectations—they’re all in your head

  Aug 22, 202613 minS0

  <p>There’s an old saying that “An expectation is a planned resentment.” You could substitute “planned disappointment” just as well. I have my own definition for the purposes of dealing with unmet needs in a relationship. Expectations are (often) unspoken, one-sided agreements that cannot be satisfied by another person.</p>

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  Episode #2

  A Slight Variation To The Serenity Prayer

  Mar 31, 20268 minS0

  <p>Changing ONE word will open up your understanding of the Serenity Prayer. </p><p>AND—How honesty, open-mindedness and willingness correlate to The Three A's (awareness, acceptance and action.)</p>

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  What Is The Practice Of Imperfection?

  Mar 28, 202617 minS1

  <p>What is the practice of imperfection? Finding Serenity. Losing it. Finding it again.</p><p>Dave H. has been in every seat at this table. He grew up in a home shaped by addiction, abuse, and secrets. He became an addict himself. He got sober, and has spent the years since not only staying sober but learning — slowly, imperfectly — how to live. He found Al-Anon when he realized that sobriety alone wasn't enough to bring him peace, and that the people he loved most were teaching him something AA couldn't: that serenity isn't the same as survival.</p>

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