We're continuing our summer re-release schedule, where we repost our most popular episodes from the past three years of recording.

In this podcast episode, we dive deep into the hidden challenges of cross addiction and transfer addiction. You’ve worked hard to get sober, but now a new struggle may arise - swapping one addiction for another. Transfer addictions often sneak into our lives without us even realizing it. Stay tuned for a conversation with Daniel, Robbie, and Nadine, where we uncover some cross addictions and talk about how to tackle those, now that alcohol is out of the picture. We’ll help you recognize the signs of cross addiction, understand why it happens, and explore proven strategies for overcoming it.

In this episode:

• What it means to have an “addictive personality”
• Recognizing the patterns when addictive behaviors show up
• Why society tries to tell you that “healthy addiction” is okay
• Facing what’s under the addiction
• Temporary fixes and why they don’t work
• The implications and dangers of social media addiction
• Finding a balance with behavioral addiction
• Escaping by helping others so you don’t have to face your own problems
• Shedding unhealthy behaviors and continuing to grow
• Recognizing when something is no longer serving you

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People often say they drink alcohol to calm their anxiety. As we start to understand that alcohol actually contributes to our anxiety, we have to start learning healthy ways to cope with it. It’s not easy. In this episode, we talk with Travis, Antje, and Zoe about how we deal with anxiety in recovery, and we all walk away with some valuable new ideas. We hope you do, too.

Some of the concepts we cover include:

• How to stop ruminating
• The power in identifying anxiety
• Learning to name feelings
• Using creativity to cope and to explore feelings
• Signs of childhood anxiety
• Skin picking
• Tools for dealing with anxiety
• Recognizing what doesn’t work
• Self care as crisis prevention
• Medication assisted treatment

Travis mentions grounding exercises often used for anxiety. You can find more info here.

Julie mentions the I Am Sober app. You can learn more about the app on their website.

Antje and Julie talk about how much the book Alcohol Explained by William Porter helped them understand the connection between anxiety and alcohol.

Meet Our Guests:

Antje first discovered drinking as a way to “fix” her eating disorder. She thought that drinking was more acceptable than binging and purging all of her meals. When drinking grew more and more out of control, she reluctantly considered sobriety in January of 2022. Soon after, she found connection and support in an online sober community. She is so glad to that she took that first, scary step and gave sobriety a chance.

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About your hosts:

Julie Miller is the founder of No Alcohol Needed, a recovery community supporting women in all stages of recovery from newly sober to recreating the life that's been waiting for them. She is a certified Recovery Coach Professional and has been coaching since 2023. Visit her website at noalcoholneeded.net

Steve Knapp is a men's mental health advocate. He's the co-host of the Forged in Silence podcast and he is passionate about helping men develop the emotional intelligence and resiliency to create meaningful, connected lives.

If you’ve ever dated sober, or intend to start dating sober, this is the episode for you! We turn the show over to five of our friends who are all active in the sober dating world, and give them a chance to tell all. They talk about everything from dealing with getting rejected and breaking up, to recognizing red flags and deal breakers, to the awkwardness of sober intimacy. Listen and laugh with us… and you’ll probably learn some things along the way, too!

• Online dating apps
• Being uncomfortable when your date drinks
• Your date being uncomfortable when you don’t drink
• Recognizing an unhealthy need for attention and validation
• Learning to communicate honestly and effectively
• Addressing a partner’s substance use
• Higher standards for conversation and connection
• Struggling with insecurity
• The older you get, the harder it seems to get
• Showing up authentically, flaws and all
• Taking things slowly
• Learning to appreciate solitude
• Learning to cope with loneliness

Visit our website for tons of free resources including:

Free weekly zoom support group

Full library of podcast episodes

Weekly sobriety inspiration newsletter

1:1 recovery coaching

About your hosts:

Julie Miller is the founder of No Alcohol Needed, a recovery community supporting women in all stages of recovery from newly sober to recreating the life that's been waiting for them. She is a certified Recovery Coach Professional and has been coaching since 2023. Visit her website at noalcoholneeded.net

Steve Knapp is a men's mental health advocate. He's the co-host of the Forged in Silence podcast and he is passionate about helping men develop the emotional intelligence and resiliency to create meaningful, connected lives.