Relationships and Sobriety: How Recovery Affects Your Family and Friends

Through the Glass Recovery

E109: Relationships and Sobriety: How Recovery Affects Your Family and Friends

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In this episode of Through the Glass Recovery Podcast, we take a look into the ripple effects sobriety can have on personal relationships. Often, the road to recovery isn’t just about changing your habits—it’s about transforming the way you interact with the people closest to you. Whether it’s mending broken trust, fostering deeper connections, or navigating difficult conversations, sobriety will profoundly impact your connections. In this episode, you’ll hear real-life stories from author Patti Clark and Kerryann, finance professional and student of psychology, who have experienced these shifts firsthand, sharing their insights, struggles, and successes in rebuilding bonds and fostering healthier relationships in their journey to sobriety.

“I get to show up now.”

In this episode:

The painful reality of letting certain relationships go
Choosing relationships carefully
How your spouse can support you
Different people will react to your sobriety in different ways
How to respond when people think you’re boring
Dealing with the friction when you stand up for yourself
Removing expectations from relationships
Relationships with teen children
Codependency, and how to disconnect with love
Connected relationships shine a light on the empty ones

Patti Clark is the award-winning author of This Way Up: Seven Tools for Unleashing Your Creative Self and Transforming Your Life. Her own experience as a middle-aged woman in recovery is deeply reflected in her new book, Recovery Road Trip: Finding Purpose and Connection on the Journey Home.

Patti was born and raised in Northern California, lived in New Zealand for many years, and is now living in Portugal.

https://www.patticlark.org

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https://www.youtube.com/user/PattiKClark

https://patticlarkwriter.substack.com

Simon and Schuster:

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Recovery-Road-Trip/Patti-Clark/9781647427740

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