Tag: shame

2026-01-022026-01-01

Episode 0050 Team Cheremy: The Alcoholic Family

This episode Team Cheremy opens the new year with a raw, deeply personal conversation about the family disease of alcoholism, focusing on how addiction and recovery ripple across generations. They explore lived experience rather than theory, as Linda and her niece Lauren both sober members of Alcoholics Anonymous share candid stories of growing up around alcoholism, navigating abandonment, secrecy, relapse, and ultimately finding recovery, boundaries, and spiritual grounding. Through honest dialogue, reflections, and practical insight, the episode examines detachment with love, family roles, myths around “rock bottom,” and how trust in recovery communities can heal fractured relationships. The result is an educational, unscripted discussion offering hope, clarity, and tools for families and individuals walking the long road of recovery together.

2025-11-15

Episode 0043 Rhona

Bob the Old Rucker and Mandy sit down with Rhona, whose hard won journey from a painful childhood, addiction, loss, and nine heart attacks to seven years of recovery is nothing short of a gut punching miracle. Rhona shares how early family dysfunction left her searching for belonging in all the wrong places, how addiction stripped away her kids, stability, and identity, and how a single friend’s invitation to a meeting set her on a path to rebuild her life through AA, sponsorship, sober living, and fierce honesty. With reflections on shame, amends, boundaries, faith, service work, and rediscovering real love, Rhona’s story offers raw truth, hope, and a reminder that no matter how far down the scale you’ve gone, recovery can reshape everything.

Apologies for the late release, more technical issues on my end while working to improve service. I destroyed the room while cleaning – RedBeard

2025-10-172025-10-30

Episode 0039 Cheri’s Journey (fixed)

Re-release of this episode to fix audio issues

On this episode the Old Rucker sits down with guest Cheri, who shares her story of recovery, resilience, and rediscovering love and purpose after alcoholism. The episode dives into Cheri’s life her path from a turbulent childhood and early motherhood to military life, codependency, and eventual addiction. Through reflection and laughter, she describes how recovery taught her boundaries, emotional growth, and the strength to face guilt, shame, and old wounds, including reconciliation with her estranged father.

2025-10-172025-10-30

Episode 0039 Cheri’s Journey