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English
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316 episodes
since Nov. 16, 2020
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Send us Fan Mail Have you ever been enjoying something good, only to find yourself already worrying about when it's going to end? Maybe it's time with someone you love, a relationship that's going well, or a period in your life when things finally seem to be falling into place. Inste…

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Send us Fan Mail You had a plan for the day. Now someone needs you to drop everything, another arrangement falls through, and you’re scrambling again. At some point, one more change feels like more than you can handle. Matt shares a weekend that pushed him past his limit and how ADHD and autism aff…
Send us Fan Mail What happens when you’ve stopped drinking, but your brain still wants guarantees? Matt and Steve talk about the need to research, plan, anticipate, and control what happens next — from work and money to cooking dinner and doing projects around the house. Underneath it is a harder p…
Send us Fan Mail What if the problem isn’t that you haven’t figured out how to drink the right way? Suzanne Warye, host of The Sober Mom Life and author of The Sober Shift, joins Matt to talk about the exhausting work of trying to control alcohol, wondering whether you’re “bad enough” to quit, and …
Send us Fan Mail What happens when something that helped save your life starts to raise questions? For many people in recovery, there can be an uncomfortable tension between gratitude and honesty. You can believe that AA, meetings, and the recovery process have given you something valuable while st…
Send us Fan Mail I’m doing what I’m supposed to do. I’m showing up. I’m putting in the work. So why does it still feel like I’m falling short? Matt and Steve talk about the nagging belief that you should always be doing more—at work, in recovery, and in life. That leads them into a bigger question:…
Send us Fan Mail Sometimes something can hurt deeply even when nothing is wrong. After dropping his son Owen off at college, Matt expected the hard part to be worrying about whether he would be okay. Instead, the emotion hit when he realized the opposite: Owen was ready. He had found his people. He…
Send us Fan Mail Sometimes you solve the thing you were worried about and feel relieved for about five minutes. Then your brain finds something else that could go wrong. Matt and Steve talk about what uncertainty does to them, from travel and job changes to money, family responsibilities, and situa…
Send us Fan Mail Why is it so hard to ask for help without immediately feeling like you need to apologize for it? Matt and Steve talk about the shame that can come with needing support, the belief that we should be able to handle everything ourselves, and the fear that struggling will make other pe…
Send us Fan Mail You can spend a lot of time trying to fix the thing that seems to be causing your anxiety and still miss what’s actually underneath it. For Matt, the panic looked like money, college costs, and the fear of letting his son down. But when the emotion finally came out, it opened into …
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