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Find Your Voice By Filling Your Own Cup

July 19, 2019 By Tanya Gioia Leave a Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

How do you find your voice? You fill your own cup first!  The 5th and final episode in the SUPAR Series will lift you up and give you all the reason you need to put on your oxygen mask first before you take care of others. Jamie Dahsciwitz shares in Her Grit and Graces her…

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Chasing the High: Interview with Micheal Dash

June 17, 2019 By Tanya Gioia Leave a Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

What do the addict and the entrepreneur have in common?  A lot according to Michael Dash author of Chasing the High: An Entrepreneur’s Mindset Through Addiction, Lawsuits, and His Journey to the Edge Find our interview with Michael here and read the highlights below.   Chasing the High -Main Focus 1. There’s a dark side…

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New To Sobriety, Now What?

May 9, 2019 By Tanya Gioia 2 Comments · This post may contain affiliate links

What if the loved one you are worried about got sober overnight?  Hallelujah!  Right!  Yes and yes. Are you finding that sobriety takes a little getting used to? What are you feeling that should be different with sobriety, but isn’t? Are you finding yourself feeling angry and upset? Are you stuffing your feelings trying not…

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Ask a Christian Counselor: Interview with Tres Adames

April 6, 2019 By Tanya Gioia Leave a Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

There is a new addition to the Sober on Purpose Podcast interviews. As we were wrapping up this first segment on codependency, I contacted another podcaster, Tres Adames, Director of Arizona Christian Counseling and host of Ask a Christian Counselor. While many families struggling with addiction seek counseling, it is often hard to know what…

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Learning how to manage stress can help alleviate symptoms, prevent illness and addiction.  Self-care in families in recovery is not selfish; it is self-preserving.

Feeling Stressed About the Addict in Your Family?

March 30, 2019 By Tanya Gioia Leave a Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

Al-Anon describes alcoholism as a family disease.  In fact, each alcoholic is said to affect five other people.  Most of the time these are family members. Our lives are so busy, sometimes it can feel hard to breathe. Add a person(s) recovering from addiction in the mix and we feel like we are drowning. Reverse…

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Stuck! For years, I felt that the Joyous Family was stuck. Just stuck in the same rotating issues over and over again. Crisis after crisis just kept banging on our door. Why, even after sobriety, did family life still feel, well, yucky? What keeps codependent families stuck?Then I walked into a Christian seminar by Jeff VanVonderan call Wounded by Shame, Healed by Grace. If you watch just a few of these videos, you will see something eye-opening.  In the podcast this week we share how VanVonderen's work affected the Joyous Family.

Codependent Families: What does not Help!

March 23, 2019 By Tanya Gioia Leave a Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

Stuck! For years, I felt that the Joyous Family was stuck. Just stuck in the same rotating issues over and over again. Crisis after crisis just kept banging on our door. Why, even after sobriety, did family life still feel, well, yucky? What keeps codependent families stuck? Then I walked into a Christian seminar by…

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Are You a Codependent Parent?

March 16, 2019 By Tanya Gioia Leave a Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

Holding that first baby in my arms I felt my heart enlarged ten sizes. I was in love. A deep “I will die for you right now”, kind of love. I still feel that way about my children. Maybe too much?   Hovering Codependent Parent There is the caricature of the stay-at-home mom who lives…

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Why Codependency Turns You Away From God

Why Codependency Turns You Away From God

March 9, 2019 By Tanya Gioia Leave a Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

Could you hear me, if I told you codependency is only a symptom? The way you choose to respond to a relationship or depend on a relationship is learned. Learned really? Yes! You learned it really early in your life with your primary caregivers. Now as with all learned behaviors you can blame, shame and…

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Who needs a sponsor in recovery?

Who Needs a Sponsor?

January 26, 2019 By Tanya Gioia Leave a Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

Why can’t you just sponsor yourself?  Let’s think about driving a car.  You could teach yourself to drive.  It is possible, people have done it; but it took time and lots of hard work. Plus, there are blind spots. Most cars are designed to give us the maximum view of our surroundings based on the…

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Boundaries are only things I can control. I want Jerry to get a new cell phone case for his delicate iPhone. Can I set a boundary that he gets a new case? I could, but... could I enforce it?

Setting Boundaries You Will Keep

January 18, 2019 By Tanya Gioia 2 Comments · This post may contain affiliate links

You’ll know that an Apple phone is just a computer between 2 pieces of glass right? The minute it slips from your pocket under the car in the parking lot it shatters…unless you have a case. It is frustrating to have to buy one more thing for that crazy expensive iPhone. But a case is…

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