Breaking the Cycle: Healing Generational Trauma and Addiction with Melissa Engle
In this episode, host KL Wells reflects on the new year and the challenges of multigenerational addiction and trauma. They introduce Melissa Engle, co-owner and executive vice president of Healing Springs Ranch, Texas, who has nearly 37 years of experience in addiction and mental health. Melissa di…
Understanding Addiction: Separating the Person from the Disease with Jim Horton
In this powerful episode, host KL Wells sits down with Jim Horton, who shares his transformative experience in Utah and opens up about his deeply personal journey through grief and addiction. Jim discusses the critical role of support systems in overcoming addiction, the evolving societal perceptio…
She Grew Up With Two Alcoholic Fathers — Here’s What Healed Her
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In this episode of Thrive While Loving an Addict, KL Wells sits down with Dawn Jackson, a nurse, grief recovery specialist, and author, to explore what happens when grief goes unnamed for years. Dawn shares her experience growing up with both a biological father and a stepfather str…
He Died Twice on the Streets Before Finding His Way Back
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In this episode of Thrive While Loving an Addict, KL Wells sits down with Dr. Robb Kelly, a neuroscientist and addiction specialist, to explore what it means to understand addiction as a disease rather than a moral failure. Dr. Kelly shares his personal journey from early exposure t…
She Scared Herself Sober — and Then Found Her Purpose
In this episode of Thrive While Loving an Addict, KL Wells sits down with Lauren Fay to explore the hidden emotional landscape of addiction, particularly when it is shaped by perfectionism, secrecy, and the pressure to maintain an image. Lauren shares her experience of appearing put together on the…
No One Is Coming to Save You. That Is the Point.
What does it look like to grow up inside the kind of environment many families are trying to help their loved ones escape?
Bill Hoopes shares what it was like to take on adult responsibility at a young age in a home shaped by addiction and mental illness. His story offers a perspective that many li…
Running Out Of Capacity Is Not The Same As Giving Up
For years, Sherry Ehrin grieved a sister who was still alive. When her sister eventually died after decades of addiction, that grief did not end. In many ways, it began again.
This conversation explores the kind of loss that families often carry quietly: the grief that accumulates through years of …
Drugs Destroyed My Life, and I Wasn't Even Using Them with Mark Manderson
What happens to the eight-year-old boy who finds his aunt collapsed on the floor, pills beneath his feet, and has to call for someone to help her? What happens when, years later, he discovers that the childhood memory he questioned was real?
For Mark Manderson, that experience became part of a much…
Grief Doesn't Get to Decide Who You Become
What happens when life changes in an instant?
Within just ten days, Elizabeth Grandinetti lost both her grandfather and her fiancé while recovering from major surgery. The losses were overwhelming, and for a time, grief became the center of her world. This conversation explores what came next: the …
His Father's Death Sent Him Into Addiction, Then Jail.
What happens when the person who taught you how to survive chaos is also part of the reason you never learned to feel safe?
Richard Lynch spent his childhood learning to read his father's voice for warning signs, sometimes recognizing days in advance that another crisis was coming. He grew up quick…
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