Longterm: A Podcast in Recovery takes you on a ride with addicts, abused hearts, and lost souls who are searching for healing and proposing their answer. Ti King hosts interviews with those who have lived it and those who make the laws that govern it. Recovery is for everyone. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and put your pieces back together.
"If I just met you in the street, I would never have thought you had an issue with drinking."
Recovery doesn't always look like hitting rock bottom in a public way. For many, it’s a quiet, internal battle fought while maintaining a successful reputation. Mary Alice Stephens joins Longterm to share her journey of sobriety and the profound "ripple effect" that happens when one person decides to get better.
In this conversation, host Ti King and Mary Alice explore the principles of healing that apply to everyone—regardless of their specific struggle. They discuss the importance of sharing stories not just for personal relief, but as a potential lifesaver for someone else.
In this episode, we dive into:
The Principles of Success: Why the "how" of recovery is more important than the circumstances of the struggle.
The Splash in the Pool: Understanding how bettering yourself creates a ripple effect that improves your family, your community, and society at large.
Hidden Struggles: Breaking the stigma of what a "person in recovery" looks like and the power of authenticity.
Saving Lives Through Stories: Why sharing your experience is the most impactful way to help others heal.
Mary Alice’s story serves as a reminder that we all have "briefcases" to unpack, and once we do, we become better suited to live lives that are productive and helpful to those around us.
Connect with Mary Alice Stephens:
🌐 Website: https://www.maryalicestephens.com/
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26 Mar 2026
The "LoveClarity" Method
"No one speaks to me like that—not even me."
What happens when a successful psychotherapist with three luxury practices and a "perfect" life reaches a point of total hopelessness? For Sanya Bari, the "letters behind her name" couldn't protect her from the pain of a life built on people-pleasing and suppressed trauma. After a life-altering suicide attempt, Sanya realized she didn't need more certifications; she needed to finally hear her own intuition.
In this profound episode of Longterm, host Ti King sits down with Sanya Bari (LPC, NCC) to discuss her journey from 2026 back through a childhood where she vowed to "learn to love without getting hurt."
In this episode, we dive into:
Resilience as a Mask: Why being "strong" is often just fear in disguise and how over-achieving can be a form of numbing.
The "GrotCheck" Method: A simple, 4-step tool (Guilt, Role-playing, Over-responsibility, Transaction) to identify why you’re getting hurt in relationships.
Self-Honoring vs. Selfishness: Why saying "no" is the highest form of honesty and how to set boundaries within your own self-talk.
The Spiritual Shift: Moving from clinical therapy to "heart-forward" coaching and the power of viewing your own life with neutrality.
Sanya’s story is a reminder that the space between trauma and success is where the real work happens. It’s time to unpack the briefcase.
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12 Feb 2026
I Sold Everything to Save My Soul: 6 Months on the Road with Izabela Oquendo
What do you do when your "perfect" life starts to feel like a cage? For licensed psychotherapist Izabela Oquendo, a series of profound losses—the death of her father and the ending of long-held friendships—served as a wake-up call that she could no longer ignore.
In this episode of Longterm, Izabela shares the radical story of how she and her family sold their possessions, packed into an RV, and spent six months traveling across the United States to find what was missing.
We dive into:
The Catalyst for Change: How grief and the dissolution of friendships can actually be "divine intervention" pushing you toward growth.
The RV Reset: The reality of leaving a corporate career to live on the road and how nature provides a fresh perspective on what truly matters.
Listening to Your Body: Why mindfulness is the ultimate tool for recovery and how to finally tune into your intuition after years of ignoring it.
The Power of Reinvention: How Izabela transitioned from a clinical career to entrepreneurship, coaching, and writing by trusting that "everything falls into place" when you are authentic.
Izabela’s journey is a powerful reminder that adversity isn't just something to survive—it's an opportunity to rebuild a life that actually fits who you are.
Read Izabela Oquendo's book:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-opposite-of-empty-izabela-oquendo/1147671894
#PersonalGrowth #Mindfulness #GriefRecovery #RVTravel #Entrepreneurship #SelfDiscovery #LongtermPodcast #IzabelaOquendo #Resilience #BurnoutRecovery
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