Jun 17, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min · 11 segments
This week Steve joins us from Stonewall Recovery Center for our Recovery Talk podcast! We discuss family and friends of folks struggling in addiction and family and friends of us folks coming out…
Constantly thinking about stuff.
Constantly thinking about stuff.
And I'm a
blank slate most of the time.
I see these days.
It depends on what, you know, I mean.
I would like to kind of thinking about it.
Sorry, I'm all clusterfucked.
You can cut that in if you want.
That's all good.
Actually, what I've been thinking about is the families.
I mean, we spend so much time talking about the recovery side of things or the healing side of things with the people who struggle.
I think that sometimes, A, the families have also been misled.
They've also been misled into recovery or what it should be or what their role in the recovery or the healing should be.
100%.
Right? So, you know, they've been told that they have to set boundaries that aren't really technically boundaries.
They're life sentences, right? They've been told that you should cut the people off.
You should make them hit rock bottom.
You should do this.
But what they're not also told to do, unless they're doing it within the confines, is to heal.
Right? I met with a father recently, and their son's in their healing stages.
They're doing really well.
They're really good.
But dad still stays up at night because son was unhoused.
Yeah.
Constantly thinking about stuff.
Constantly thinking about stuff.
And I'm a
blank slate most of the time.
I see these days.
It depends on what, you know, I mean.
I would like to kind of thinking about it.
Sorry, I'm all clusterfucked.
You can cut that in if you want.
That's all good.
Actually, what I've been thinking about is the families.
I mean, we spend so much time talking about the recovery side of things or the healing side of things with the people who struggle.
I think that sometimes, A, the families have also been misled.
They've also been misled into recovery or what it should be or what their role in the recovery or the healing should be.
100%.
Right? So, you know, they've been told that they have to set boundaries that aren't really technically boundaries.
They're life sentences, right? They've been told that you should cut the people off.
You should make them hit rock bottom.
You should do this.
But what they're not also told to do, unless they're doing it within the confines, is to heal.
Right? I met with a father recently, and their son's in their healing stages.
They're doing really well.
They're really good.
But dad still stays up at night because son was unhoused.
Yeah.
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