Thanks for Sharing | Addiction and Recovery Podcast

Jackie interviews Michelle Mays about healing from betrayal trauma.  Michelle founded the Center for Relational Recovery, a counseling and training center focused on providing leading-edge treatment to sex addicts, partners of sex

We continue our conversation from a previous episode about trauma response, this time answering a listeners question. We dive deeper into this important mental health topic, which we all need to understand

In this episode of Thanks for Sharing, Jackie Pack talks about the common characteristics of functional families. She also talks about dysfunctional families and how that can occur. In Leo Tolstoy’s novel, Anna Karenina, there

We all have experiences where a situation triggers a trauma response in us.  Something from the past feels as though it is happening again in our present. Our body responds, our thoughts

Betrayal trauma has a significant impact on both the brain and the nervous system of the betrayed partner and makes it difficult for them to return to a state of calm and

The practice of Sabbath is typically thought of by most of us as a specifically religious practice designated for people who are members of particular denominations. But there are mental health advantages

In this episode of our podcast about mental health, host Jackie Pack talks about Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs that dictates a person’s behavior and motivation.  We discuss the belief window that

After the initial phase of recovery from addiction, it’s vital to move beyond sobriety into optimal recovery. Often this is a lifelong process. In therapy, we need a corrective emotional experience, where

We discuss the continuum of strategies for getting what we want and need and balancing the health of any relationship. This dynamic comes up in our romantic relationships, with our kids, our

Every one of us wants and craves the security and safety that comes with marriage and commitment, knowing our partner will always be there for us, through the good times and the