Building A Home TeamBuilding A Home Team
Addict II Athlete Podcast
Blu and Marissa Robinson talk about turning family life into a "home team" that supports sobriety, drawing on their very different upbringings and parenting styles. They discuss coaching-style parenting, love languages and clear boundaries as tools for moving from addict to athlete within everyday home life.
48:45•9 Sept 2019
Building Your Home Team: Turning Family into a Sober Support Squad
Episode Overview
- A strong home team is built intentionally through structure, shared values and consistent routines, not by accident.
- Parents act as coaches, making difficult calls and setting boundaries that protect the family while still showing care and respect.
- Childhood experiences, both structured and chaotic, heavily influence how people give and receive love and support in recovery.
- Understanding each family member’s primary love language helps support them in ways that actually register as care.
- You can create a new, healthier home team—even with chosen family—where accountability, honesty and love replace old addictive patterns.
“My job, my number one job is to teach you how to become an adult. It is not to love you to death.”
Curious about how others navigate their sobriety journey? This episode of Addict II Athlete turns the idea of a "support system" into something much more practical: a home team. Coach and mental health therapist Blu Robinson teams up with athletic director Marissa Robinson to talk about how family systems, routines and even childhood sports shape recovery long before anyone ever touches alcohol or drugs.
Using their own very different upbringings, they show how a structured, value-driven household can become a "home court advantage" for someone moving from addict to athlete. Marissa shares stories of her swim-focused family, including her mum Sheila, affectionately called "moach" (mum + coach), who couldn’t swim herself yet coached beginners for decades. Blu contrasts this with his chaotic, poverty-heavy childhood, where survival, not structure, ruled the day.
The contrast gives anyone in recovery—especially parents—a clear picture of how old "plays" from childhood might still be running in their adult lives. You’ll hear them break down roles like coaches (parents), players (kids) and even referees (schools, courts, outside authorities), and how each impacts sobriety at home.
They bring in the five love languages, confess to real-life slip-ups like sneaking kids snacks and finding hidden Oreos, and still circle back to one core idea: your home, blood family or chosen, can be rebuilt into a stable, supportive team. The tone stays light, honest and often funny, but the message is clear: "My job, my number one job is to teach you how to become an adult.
It is not to love you to death." If you're rebuilding life after addiction—or trying to support someone who is—this conversation might get you asking: what kind of team are you coaching at home?
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