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every 19 days
Average audio length:
33 minutes
English
United States
39 episodes
since July 1, 2024
episodic

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Send us Fan Mail Bringing Recovery Into the “Normie” World: Selective Honesty, Boundaries, and Staying AuthenticHosts Peg McDermott and Heather Hageman discuss the critical transition from being deeply immersed in recovery (treatment, therapy, or 12-step rooms) back into ordinary life where people …

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Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Recovery: The Whole Enchilada, host Peg McDermott and co-host Heather Hageman explore sober intimacy and why it can feel terrifying in recovery.  They discuss intimacy as “into me, see,” rebuilding trust with oneself after addiction, learning to sit with uncomfor…
Send us Fan Mail Host Peg McDermott and co-host Heather Hageman discuss the recovery principle “love and tolerance of others is our code,” clarifying that it doesn’t require approving, agreeing with, or endlessly enduring harmful behavior.  They explore how compassion can coexist with truth-telling…
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Recovery: The Whole Enchilada, hosts Peg McDermott and co-host Heather Hageman explore trust as a foundational part of recovery—learning to become trustworthy, rebuilding trust with others, and trusting the process and a higher power.  Heather shares how early so…
Send us Fan Mail Host Peg McDermott and co-host Heather Hageman reflect on sobriety anniversaries, including Peg’s 25 years sober since choosing July 4th in a relapse prevention group, and use the milestone to explore purpose in recovery. Heather connects her trauma work to a shift from “What’s wro…
Send us Fan Mail Host Peg McDermott and co-host Heather Hagaman discuss the question “Are you an alcoholic?” prompted by a listener who doesn’t identify as having an addiction but wonders if the podcast applies to them.  They explore how “habit” and “addiction” differ, how stereotypes and denial ca…
Send us Fan Mail Hosts Peg McDermott and Heather Hagaman discuss experiencing death in sobriety, contrasting sudden losses with expected deaths and how both can dysregulate the body and trigger fear.  Heather shares the shock of a close friend dying soon after retirement and how she leaned on suppo…
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Recovery: The Whole Enchilada, hosts Peg McDermott and Heather Hagaman discuss how to navigate vacations in sobriety, including planning ahead like you would for a party.  They share strategies such as traveling with sober people, gathering phone numbers and meet…
Send us Fan Mail Hosts Peg McDermott and Heather Hagaman discuss dual recovery as living with both substance use disorder and mental health conditions like anxiety, depression, PTSD, bipolar disorder, and ADHD, and emphasize that treating both together is more effective than treating one alone.  Pe…
Send us Fan Mail On the podcast “Recovery, the whole enchilada,” host Peg McDermott and co-host Heather Hageman discuss springtime “new beginnings” in sobriety and how recovery widens a life that became small during drinking.  Heather shares rediscovering childhood joys like pressing wild violets, …
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