One on One With Coach Blu Episode 2One on One With Coach Blu Episode 2
Addict II Athlete Podcast
A call-in session with Coach Blu brings real stories on self-advocacy, boundaries, relapse, harm reduction and the role of cannabis and exercise in recovery. Callers share lived experience while the team offers practical, direct support for staying honest and safe in sobriety.
1:01:36•2 Jul 2020
Holding Boundaries, Speaking Up and Staying Honest in Recovery
Episode Overview
- Advocating for yourself with medical and prosthetic providers is essential; questioning professionals can prevent years of unnecessary pain.
- Holding clear boundaries with people in active use protects groups, families and children, and does not mean a lack of love.
- Relapse and slips are different; a slip can be used to reassess purpose, while ongoing use demands deeper work on underlying issues.
- Harm reduction, including MAT or cannabis, may help some people, but requires honest intent and awareness of personal risk of addiction.
- Even healthy outlets like running can become avoidance if used to escape feelings rather than face and work through them.
“It’s a privilege to have a relationship with us. It’s not a right.”
Curious about how others navigate their sobriety journey? This call-in session with Addict II Athlete gives you a front-row seat to real-time coaching with Coach Blu Robinson and athletic director Marissa. Across an easy-going, hour-long chat, callers bring raw, everyday struggles: medical mistreatment, boundary setting, relapse, harm reduction and the tricky question of cannabis in recovery.
One caller, Selena, shares a jaw-dropping story of living nine years as a below-knee amputee with a prosthetic foot that was two and a half sizes too small. Mislabelled by professionals and dismissed as a “drug seeker”, she describes being told to “let pain be your guide” while pushing through 5Ks, hikes and constant discomfort. Her turning point? Learning to speak up and self-advocate until the error was finally corrected and her knee pain disappeared.
Another powerful segment centres on Donnell, who has to ask a much-loved group member in active use to leave a meeting to protect her art-based recovery group and the children present. Coach Blu reminds her that, “It’s a privilege to have a relationship with us. It’s not a right,” framing boundaries as an act of care for the whole team, not rejection.
Certified sober coach Jim brings a thoughtful discussion on medicated assisted therapy, cannabis, and the difference between harm reduction and simply swapping one substance for another.
He stresses knowing your own limits: “If I have something foreign enter into my body and I feel that false euphoria, I’m going to set myself up for disaster.” Together, they unpack slips versus full relapse and how even healthy habits like running can turn into avoidance if the intent is to run from emotional pain.
If you’re looking for honest talk about MAT, self-advocacy, boundaries and staying honest with yourself in recovery, this conversation may give you plenty to think about. Where might you need to speak up, hold a line or rethink the way you’re coping?
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