One on One: Emotional TurbulenceOne on One: Emotional Turbulence
Addict II Athlete Podcast
Coach Blu and Marisa talk through trauma, parenting, grief and public drinking culture, tying these real-life stories back to addiction and recovery. They share conference takeaways, family experiences and views on multiple paths to sobriety, including harm reduction and movement-based support.
50:11•9 Nov 2022
Emotional Turbulence: Trauma, Parenting, Disney Drinking and the Many Roads to Recovery
Episode Overview
- Addiction is often rooted in pain and trauma, making it vital to ask “what happened to you” rather than “what’s wrong with you.”
- Seemingly small childhood moments, like how parents respond to mistakes, can become significant trauma depending on how a child interprets them.
- Owning mistakes with children and offering genuine apologies can repair emotional harm and build stronger, more honest relationships.
- Alcohol-heavy environments such as Disney’s food and wine events can be risky for people in early recovery, so planning boundaries is crucial.
- There are many valid paths to recovery, including abstinence, harm reduction, MAT, movement-based programmes and faith, and each person needs room to choose what fits them.
“Trauma-informed care shifts care from the focus of ‘what’s wrong with you’ to ‘what happened to you.’”
How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety? This One on One live chat with Coach Blu and Athletic Director Marisa peels back the layers of what really sits underneath addiction, everyday family life, and even a trip to Disney. You’ll hear them unpack ideas from Dr Gabor Maté’s work on trauma and addiction, fresh from a mental health and addiction conference in Orlando.
They talk through trauma‑informed care as a shift from asking “what’s wrong with you” to “what happened to you,” and link this to adverse childhood experiences and how kids interpret praise, criticism, and pressure. As Marisa puts it, “Trauma is trauma depending on the person that’s experiencing it.” The conversation gets personal as they describe the sudden illness and death of the family pug and how their first reactions missed their children’s emotional needs.
They openly admit to “doubling and tripling down” on minimising the problem, then explain why honest apologies to kids and repairing those moments matters so much to long‑term emotional health. There’s also a candid chat about their visit to Epcot during Disney’s food and wine events. The amount of drinking around children left them “blindsided,” and they use that experience to talk about binge drinking, boundaries in early recovery, and the importance of choice without judgement.
Threaded through the whole episode is a strong message: multiple paths to recovery are valid. They discuss harm reduction, medication‑assisted treatment, sober gyms, movement‑based programmes, 12‑step groups and faith, stressing that “it doesn’t matter how you achieve your sobriety” as long as it’s authentic to you. If you’ve ever wondered where trauma, parenting, grief, and public drinking cultures collide with recovery, this chat gives you plenty to think about and a gentle nudge to keep an open mind.
What choices are you making today that support the kind of recovery life you actually want?
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