Society & Culture
What if the biggest protective factor against addiction isn't willpower, therapy, or even sobriety, but family? Not necessarily the one you were born into.
In this episode Clive, Matt and Dom explore one of the most overlooked threads in addiction recovery - the role of family, belonging and the need to be part of something. Matt shares candidly how his family's decision to stop enabling him and let him crash and burn was both the hardest and the most loving thing they ever did. And how when he crawled back, they were ready.
They explore what happens when the family you grew up in isn't the one that heals you - and how addicts often build their own family from scratch, dysfunctional as it might be. Sometimes that's the first place they've ever felt they belonged.
The conversation moves into the language of recovery, why being told to repeatedly declare "I am an alcoholic" might be doing more harm than good, and why the granularity of how we describe ourselves matters more than most treatment programmes acknowledge.
Raw, unscripted and genuinely thought-provoking.
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