One on One With Coach Blu: Episode 4One on One With Coach Blu: Episode 4
Addict II Athlete Podcast
Coach Blu hosts a live Q&A where people in recovery raise real-life struggles with cravings, parenting, trauma, youth drug use, injury, and anxiety. The conversation blends gentle humour, strong boundaries, and practical tools to help people stay sober and feel less alone.
1:17:59•18 Jul 2020
One on One With Coach Blu: Real Questions, Real Recovery
Episode Overview
- Using pride in your clean date as a temporary anchor can be enough to keep you sober during intense emotional storms.
- Recognising when your parental "capacity is breached" and seeking outside help for your child is an act of humility, not failure.
- After injury or surgery, focus on very small, consistent steps instead of an all-or-nothing mindset; connect to each step, not just the finish line.
- Treat relationships as a privilege, not a right, and back up your boundaries with clear consequences when they’re not respected.
- When nightmares or old traumas surface, choose new actions once you wake up, such as reaching out and creating positive experiences instead of isolating.
“"It's a privilege to have a relationship with you, not a right."”
How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety? This live "One on One With Coach Blu" session gives you a front-row seat to raw, unfiltered conversations about staying clean, parenting through addiction, and rebuilding a life with purpose. Coach Blu Robinson, alongside co-host Marissa, holds open space for team members to ask anything – from cravings and co-occurring eating disorders to spinal surgery recovery, youth cannabis use, and even pandemic anxiety.
You’ll hear Danielle, a mum in long-term recovery, describe sending her 14-year-old son to treatment and fighting the urge to drink. Blu normalises her pride in her clean time and calls out the courage it takes to admit, "my capacity is breached" and ask for help. Physical recovery gets attention too, with a question from an athlete learning to run again after spinal surgery.
Blu talks about tiny, consistent steps instead of the all-or-nothing mindset many people in addiction recognise, urging him to "connect yourself to the experience, not the destination." A group of young people struggling with "it’s just weed" thinking get a straight-talking challenge about choosing which "team" they want to play for: team addict or team sober, and what consequences come with each.
Later, conversations about boundaries and difficult ex-partners, DCFS involvement, and nightmares linked to past trauma all highlight how emotional triggers can stir up urges, shame, and self-doubt — and how community support can steady the ship. The tone stays warm, honest, and often gently funny, even when tears are close to the surface.
If you’re in recovery, supporting someone who is, or just feeling worn down by life, you’ll find real stories, practical tools, and the constant reminder that, as Blu says, "you’ve come too far" to give up now. Who in your life might need to hear that they’re worth holding a boundary — including you?
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