Episode 189: Recovery Toolbox: Living in your time zone
Building Your Recovery Toolbox In recovery, having a toolbox filled with various tools is essential, especially when dealing with relationships, love, and sex. Building a recovery toolbox for anxiety is necessary because relationships anxiety. We need a variety of tools for different reasons. Some are preventative, helping us stay in a good mental space. Others…
Read MoreEpisode 188: Dialing It In
Dialing It In: Discovering Your Personal Mixing Board Hey, friends! In this episode of The Worth Recovery Podcast, we’re diving into a fun and helpful analogy for making changes in recovery: the mixing board. Growing up in a musical family, I learned all about how mixing boards can blend different sounds to create just the…
Read MoreEpisode 187: Trauma Responses
Hey there! It’s Amy, and I’m back with another episode of the Worth Recovery Podcast. Today, I’m sharing an episode I recorded two years ago about understanding trauma responses. This topic is really important to me because it includes some memories from my own childhood trauma. I want to share these stories to help us…
Read MoreEpisode 186: 11 Years Sober
In this episode of The Worth Recovery Podcast, I’m diving deep into my journey as a sex, love, and relationship addict, celebrating 11 years of sobriety since December 2, 2012. Reflecting on this milestone, I explore how crucial self-worth is in the recovery process. This episode, recorded six months ago, delves into my thoughts and…
Read MoreEpisode 185: Engage Discipline
What role does Discipline play in your recovery? Do you need more discipline in order to get where you want to be? In this episode, Amy discusses the three types of discipline needed for recovery – Preventative, Supportive, and Corrective. She offers tools and help for each type for your to implement in your personal…
Read MoreEpisode 183: Holding Space
The longer I’ve been a coach and therapist, the more I realize recovery has a whole vocabulary all it’s own! I use words people have never heard or analogies most have never heard of. So many times people ask me to define certain ideas, concepts, or words and want to know how it might work.…
Read MoreEpisode 182: Begin Again
Over and over, we begin again. I believe the practice of beginning again is one of the single most significant gifts you can give yourself. This is the work of recovery. After several months of no new episodes and a few years of false starts and on and off again engagement, I begin again. Isn’t…
Read MoreEpisode 181: Can’t vs. Won’t
Do you feel stuck? Sometimes, during my 10 year sobriety journey, I have felt very stuck and very upset about being stuck. In this episode, I talk about how sometimes we keep ourselves stuck. Not all the time, but sometimes we are our worst enemy in what we are willing to do for our own…
Read MoreEpisode 180: Believing is Seeing – 10 Years Sober
Today, December 2, 2022, I celebrate 10 years sober. In this episode I talk about some of the thinking that had to change for me to achieve this accomplishment and how believing is seeing when it comes to our recovery.
Read MoreEpisode 179: Worth Reading – The Four Agreements
Continuing our Worth Reading series, I share one of the books that was fundamental to my mindset work. I was struggling with my people pleasing behaviors when my therapist recommended this book. In this episode, I share the pieces of this book that had the most influence on me. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel…
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