We’ve been to too many funerals we never wanted to attend.
We’ve said goodbye to friends and loved ones far too soon — not because they didn’t matter, but because addiction took them before they could see the fullness of who they were meant to be.

In this episode, we’re talking about one of the hardest realities of recovery and community: losing someone to addiction.

We’ll share some of our own experiences, what grief has looked like for us, and the messy, complicated emotions that come with this kind of loss — sadness, anger, guilt, even relief.

This isn’t an episode with neat answers. It’s one of remembrance, honesty, and the reminder that your grief matters, their life mattered, and you are not alone.

🔗 Resources:

• • Celebrate Recovery group finder:
  https://www.celebraterecovery.com/locator

• • GriefShare support groups:
  https://www.griefshare.org

• • SAMHSA Helpline (for addiction support):1-800-662-HELP (4357)

  
  

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  New episodes every Wednesday.
  If you’ve lost someone you love to addiction, know this: we see you, we grieve with you, and we’re rooting for you. Always. 🖤

When you’ve been stuck for a long time, hope can feel impossible. Maybe you’ve told yourself:

“It’s too late.”

“I’m too far gone.”

“This is just how life is now.”

In this episode, we’re talking about hope — why it matters, how it’s shown up in our own recovery journeys, and how you can hold onto it (even if it feels like it’s slipped through your hands).

Jay shares phrases and concepts he learned in recovery and how seeing real change in others made him believe it was possible for himself. Jennifer talks about the hope she borrowed from other people’s stories when she couldn’t find her own, and how faith reframed what was possible in her life.

💬 In this episode:

• • What hope looked like (and didn’t look like) in early recovery

  • Why hope is essential for lasting change

  • Faith, community, and the power of borrowed belief

  • Practical ways to keep hope alive in everyday life
  

  🔗 Resources:

• Find a Celebrate Recovery group near you: https://www.celebraterecovery.com/locator

  National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI):https://www.nami.org

  Find an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting near you: ⁠https://www.aa.org/find-aa⁠

  Find a Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meeting near you: https://na.org/meetingsearch/

  Need support for codependency? Check out CoDA: https://coda.org/find-a-meeting/

  
  

  🖤 Stay Connected:

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  New episodes every Wednesday. If this one encouraged you, share it with someone who might need a reminder that change is still possible.

  We’re rooting for you. Always. 🖤

We’ve talked about anxiety, addiction, boundaries, and emotional breakdowns… So this week? We’re keeping it light.

In this episode, we’re answering rapid-fire questions about marriage, recovery, and real life — no prep, no script, just honest (and sometimes ridiculous) answers from both of us.

We cover things like:

• Who’s more dramatic (spoiler: we both have thoughts)
• What recovery has helped us laugh at now
• The Target aisles we can’t stay away from
• And the weird little things saving our sanity right now
This episode is pure exhale. Zero fixing. Just fun, real talk, and a reminder that healing doesn’t have to be heavy all the time.

🎧 Listen if you need:

• • A break from the serious stuff
  • A reason to laugh (or feel less alone in your weirdness)
  • To remember that recovery includes joy too
  

• 🖤 Stay Connected:

  Follow us on Instagram → @rootingforyou.podcast

  New episodes drop every Wednesday.Share this one with someone who needs a little joy in the middle of the work.

  We’re rooting for you. Always. 🖤

In this episode, we talk about our personal experiences with anxiety — and how it’s shown up in recovery, relationships, and the pressure to hold it all together.

Jay shares about how and where his anxiety started, being diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder after getting sober, the surprising ways it impacted his healing, and how medication and support changed the game.

Jennifer opens up about how people-pleasing and perfectionism became ways to avoid the uncomfortable truth: she was anxious all the time and didn’t know how to stop.

🔗 Resources Mentioned:

👉 Find a Celebrate Recovery group near you: ⁠https://www.celebraterecovery.com/locator⁠

👉 Find an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting near you: ⁠https://www.aa.org/find-aa⁠

👉 Find a Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meeting near you:

https://na.org/meetingsearch/

👉 Need support for codependency? Check out CoDA: https://coda.org/find-a-meeting/

💬 Let’s stay connected:

Follow us on Instagram → @rootingforyou.podcast

New episodes every Wednesday.Share this one with a couple walking through hard things.We're still recovering — and we’re rooting for you. 🖤

📩 Got a story, question, or just want to say hi? Send us an email at rooting.pod@gmail.com

What if the thing that’s actually keeping you stuck… is trying to hold everything together?

In this episode, we talk about powerlessness — not as weakness, but as the beginning of real peace. Because whether it’s addiction, anxiety, control, or just trying to keep everyone else happy… eventually we all hit a point where white-knuckling life doesn’t work anymore.

We get real about:

• • What powerlessness actually looks like (and what it doesn’t)
  • Our own stories of trying to control things we couldn’t
  • The moment we realized that letting go wasn’t giving up — it was freedom

• This one isn’t just for people in recovery. It’s for anyone who’s exhausted from pretending they’re fine.

  
  

  🔗 Resources Mentioned:

  👉 Find a Celebrate Recovery group near you: ⁠https://www.celebraterecovery.com/locator⁠

  👉 Find an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting near you: ⁠https://www.aa.org/find-aa⁠

  👉 Find a Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meeting near you:

  https://na.org/meetingsearch/

  👉 Need support for codependency? Check out CoDA: https://coda.org/find-a-meeting/

  
  

  💬 Let’s stay connected:

  Follow us on Instagram → @rootingforyou.podcast

  New episodes every Wednesday. Share this with a friend and don't forget to leave a 5-star rating & review. It helps so much! We're still recovering — and we’re rooting for you. 🖤

  📩 Got a story, question, or just want to say hi? Send us an email at rooting.pod@gmail.com

What do you do when someone you love is in active addiction?
Do you leave? Do you stay?
How do you love them without losing yourself?

In this episode, we flip the mic a little. Jay asks Jennifer real, unfiltered questions about what it was like to be the spouse of someone in active alcoholism — before the recovery, before the healing, in the thick of it.

This isn’t a formula. It’s a conversation.
And it’s one a lot of people need to hear.

💬 In this episode, we talk about:

• • What it actually felt like to love someone in active addiction

• • Why Jennifer stayed — and what would’ve made her leave

• • The moment she realized she needed her own recovery

  • What helped (and what didn’t) when she was trying to support Jay

• • Encouragement for anyone who’s still in the middle of it

• Whether you're walking through this yourself or you love someone who is, this episode offers truth, hope, and real permission to take care of your own heart in the process.

  
  

  🔗 Resources Mentioned:

  👉 Find a Celebrate Recovery group near you: ⁠https://www.celebraterecovery.com/locator⁠

  👉 Find an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting near you: ⁠https://www.aa.org/find-aa⁠

  👉 Find a Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meeting near you:

  https://na.org/meetingsearch/

  👉 Need support for codependency? Check out CoDA: https://coda.org/find-a-meeting/

  
  

  💬 Let’s stay connected:

  Follow us on Instagram → @rootingforyou.podcast

  New episodes every Wednesday.Share this one with a couple walking through hard things.We're still recovering — and we’re rooting for you. 🖤

  📩 Got a story, question, or just want to say hi? Send us an email at rooting.pod@gmail.com

When people hear “step study,” they often think it’s just homework and hard questions.
But for us — and for our friend Will — it became something way deeper:
A safe place to tell the truth.
A space to sit with God and your story.
A process that changed everything.

In this episode, we talk with Will — who went through a full Celebrate Recovery step study with Jay — about what the experience was really like. No fluff. No spiritual sugar-coating. Just real recovery in motion.

In this episode:

• • Why Will walked into CR in the first place

• • What a step study actually looks like (from someone who’s done it)

• • The fear, resistance, and freedom that surfaced along the way

• • What shifted in his relationships, faith, and identity

• • Why sitting in a circle of truth-tellers can change your life

  
  

  🔗 Resources Mentioned:

  👉 Find a Celebrate Recovery group near you: ⁠https://www.celebraterecovery.com/locator⁠

  👉 Find an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting near you: ⁠https://www.aa.org/find-aa⁠

  👉 Find a Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meeting near you:

  https://na.org/meetingsearch/

  👉 Need support for codependency? Check out CoDA: https://coda.org/find-a-meeting/

  
  

  💬 Let’s stay connected:

  Follow us on Instagram → @rootingforyou.podcast

  New episodes every Wednesday.Share this one with a couple walking through hard things.We're still recovering — and we’re rooting for you. 🖤

  📩 Got a story, question, or just want to say hi? Send us an email at rooting.pod@gmail.com

We didn’t start recovery at the same time… or for the same reasons. One of us was mandated. One of us was just curious. But we both ended up in the same room — and it changed everything.

In this episode, we talk about what it looked like (and still looks like) to recover together. Not perfectly. Not all at once. But side-by-side — with a lot of honesty, laughter, and grace in the process.

🔗 Resources Mentioned:

👉 Find a Celebrate Recovery group near you: ⁠https://www.celebraterecovery.com/locator⁠

👉 Find an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting near you: ⁠https://www.aa.org/find-aa⁠

👉 Find a Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meeting near you:

https://na.org/meetingsearch/

👉 Need support for codependency? Check out CoDA: https://coda.org/find-a-meeting/

💬 Let’s stay connected:

Follow us on Instagram → @rootingforyou.podcast

New episodes every Wednesday.Share this one with a couple walking through hard things.We're still recovering — and we’re rooting for you. 🖤

📩 Got a story, question, or just want to say hi? Send us an email at rooting.pod@gmail.com