What do you do when someone you love is in active addiction?
Do you leave? Do you stay?
How do you love them without losing yourself?

In this episode, we flip the mic a little. Jay asks Jennifer real, unfiltered questions about what it was like to be the spouse of someone in active alcoholism — before the recovery, before the healing, in the thick of it.

This isn’t a formula. It’s a conversation.
And it’s one a lot of people need to hear.

💬 In this episode, we talk about:

• • What it actually felt like to love someone in active addiction

• • Why Jennifer stayed — and what would’ve made her leave

• • The moment she realized she needed her own recovery

  • What helped (and what didn’t) when she was trying to support Jay

• • Encouragement for anyone who’s still in the middle of it

• Whether you're walking through this yourself or you love someone who is, this episode offers truth, hope, and real permission to take care of your own heart in the process.

  
  

  🔗 Resources Mentioned:

  👉 Find a Celebrate Recovery group near you: ⁠https://www.celebraterecovery.com/locator⁠

  👉 Find an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting near you: ⁠https://www.aa.org/find-aa⁠

  👉 Find a Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meeting near you:

  https://na.org/meetingsearch/

  👉 Need support for codependency? Check out CoDA: https://coda.org/find-a-meeting/

  
  

  💬 Let’s stay connected:

  Follow us on Instagram → @rootingforyou.podcast

  New episodes every Wednesday.Share this one with a couple walking through hard things.We're still recovering — and we’re rooting for you. 🖤

  📩 Got a story, question, or just want to say hi? Send us an email at rooting.pod@gmail.com

When people hear “step study,” they often think it’s just homework and hard questions.
But for us — and for our friend Will — it became something way deeper:
A safe place to tell the truth.
A space to sit with God and your story.
A process that changed everything.

In this episode, we talk with Will — who went through a full Celebrate Recovery step study with Jay — about what the experience was really like. No fluff. No spiritual sugar-coating. Just real recovery in motion.

In this episode:

• • Why Will walked into CR in the first place

• • What a step study actually looks like (from someone who’s done it)

• • The fear, resistance, and freedom that surfaced along the way

• • What shifted in his relationships, faith, and identity

• • Why sitting in a circle of truth-tellers can change your life

  
  

  🔗 Resources Mentioned:

  👉 Find a Celebrate Recovery group near you: ⁠https://www.celebraterecovery.com/locator⁠

  👉 Find an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting near you: ⁠https://www.aa.org/find-aa⁠

  👉 Find a Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meeting near you:

  https://na.org/meetingsearch/

  👉 Need support for codependency? Check out CoDA: https://coda.org/find-a-meeting/

  
  

  💬 Let’s stay connected:

  Follow us on Instagram → @rootingforyou.podcast

  New episodes every Wednesday.Share this one with a couple walking through hard things.We're still recovering — and we’re rooting for you. 🖤

  📩 Got a story, question, or just want to say hi? Send us an email at rooting.pod@gmail.com

We didn’t start recovery at the same time… or for the same reasons. One of us was mandated. One of us was just curious. But we both ended up in the same room — and it changed everything.

In this episode, we talk about what it looked like (and still looks like) to recover together. Not perfectly. Not all at once. But side-by-side — with a lot of honesty, laughter, and grace in the process.

🔗 Resources Mentioned:

👉 Find a Celebrate Recovery group near you: ⁠https://www.celebraterecovery.com/locator⁠

👉 Find an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting near you: ⁠https://www.aa.org/find-aa⁠

👉 Find a Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meeting near you:

https://na.org/meetingsearch/

👉 Need support for codependency? Check out CoDA: https://coda.org/find-a-meeting/

💬 Let’s stay connected:

Follow us on Instagram → @rootingforyou.podcast

New episodes every Wednesday.Share this one with a couple walking through hard things.We're still recovering — and we’re rooting for you. 🖤

📩 Got a story, question, or just want to say hi? Send us an email at rooting.pod@gmail.com