Season2:The Truth about Recovery. Episode 6: The Voice of Shame
Shame can be one of the quietest, most powerful forces in addiction and recovery. It doesn’t always shout — sometimes it whispers, shaping the way we see ourselves when no one else is around.
In this episode, we explore what that inner voice of shame sounds like, why it feels so believable, and how recovery slowly teaches us to notice it without becoming it.
This isn’t about perfection or having it all together. It’s about learning to separate who you are from what shame says you are — and beginning to respond to yourself with understanding instead of punishment.
If you’re in recovery, supporting someone who is, or just trying to make sense of your own inner world, this episode is a reminder: you are not your shame. You are still here, still becoming, still healing.
Take what you need from this episode, and leave the rest.
Doing Time in Recovery
Honest conversations about addiction, healing, and rebuilding from within.
7 May 2026
Season 2:The truth about Recovery Episode 5 - Escape Was Fast, But Healing Is Learning to Stay
In addiction, escape can feel immediate — a way to numb, avoid, or run from what feels unbearable. But recovery asks something very different of us. It asks us to stay. To sit with discomfort, emotions, uncertainty, and ourselves without escaping. In this episode of Doing Time in Recovery, we talk about the slow and honest work of healing, why staying can feel so hard, and how real recovery begins when we stop running from what needs our attention most.
22 Apr 2026
Season 2: The Truth about Recovery - Episode 4: The Space Between Survival and Healing
There’s a space in recovery where you’re no longer surviving the way you used to… but healing doesn’t feel steady yet.
In this episode, we explore that in-between — the discomfort, the uncertainty, and the quiet growth happening beneath it all.
You’re not lost. You’re in the middle of becoming.
13 Apr 2026
Season 2: The truth about Recovery - Episode 3: The day I realised recovery was working
What if recovery is already working… and you just haven’t noticed yet?
This episode explores the small, quiet shifts that show healing is happening, even in ordinary moments.
2 Apr 2026
Season 2: The Truth about Recovery Episode 2: Understanding addiction and why we used.
Addiction doesn’t happen without a reason. Beneath the behavior, there is always something deeper—pain, avoidance, survival, or a need that wasn’t being met. In this episode of Doing Time in Recovery, we explore the “why” behind using, not to justify it, but to understand it. This is an honest conversation about what sits underneath addiction, how it serves a purpose, and why awareness is such a powerful step in recovery.
24 Mar 2026
Season 2: The Truth About Recovery - Episode 1: The Lies Addiction Tells Us
Season 2 of Doing Time in Recovery is an honest look at healing, addiction, guilt, patterns, and the slow work of rebuilding your life. Through eight real and reflective episodes, this season explores the lies addiction tells us, the truth recovery reveals, and what it really means to keep showing up for yourself. If you’re walking through recovery, carrying shame, or learning how to heal one day at a time, this season is for you.
16 Mar 2026
Episode 8 - Staying: The Courage to Continue
Recovery isn’t always dramatic. Often, the bravest thing you can do is continue showing up — day after day, choice after choice.
In this episode, we reflect on the quiet courage it takes to stay, the ordinary choices that create transformation, and why persistence matters more than perfection.
Courage doesn’t have to roar. Sometimes courage is quiet.
Showing up is brave.
You are still healing.
8 Mar 2026
Episode 7 - Learning to Feel Safe
Feeling safe isn’t always automatic in recovery.
For many of us, our nervous systems learned to live in survival mode — always bracing, always anticipating the next threat. Even when life becomes calmer, our bodies can take time to believe that safety is real.
In this episode, we explore what it means to slowly teach your body and mind that it’s okay to relax. Through gentle awareness, compassion, and small daily choices, safety can begin to grow.
You are allowed to slow down.
You are allowed to feel safe.
You are still healing.
2 Mar 2026
Episode 6 - Forgiving Yourself - Forgiveness isn’t a moment — it’s a direction.
Self-forgiveness in recovery doesn’t happen all at once.
In this episode, we explore the weight of guilt and shame, and why healing isn’t about erasing the past — it’s about choosing growth, accountability, and compassion in the present.
You cannot hate yourself into healing.
Forgiveness isn’t a single moment — it’s a direction you move toward, one decision at a time.
You are allowed to grow.
You are still healing.
23 Feb 2026
Episode 5 - Triggers without Shame
🎙 Episode 5 – Triggers Without Shame
Being triggered in recovery doesn’t mean you’ve failed.
In this episode, we explore what triggers really are — not signs of weakness, but signals from a nervous system that once had to survive. Healing isn’t about never being activated again; it’s about learning to respond with awareness and compassion.
A trigger is information, not failure.
You are allowed to slow down.
You are allowed to care for yourself.
You are still healing.
16 Feb 2026
Episode 4 The In - Between Season
If recovery feels quiet right now, this episode is for you.
Not every season is dramatic. Sometimes there’s no crisis or breakthrough — just the steady middle. In this episode, we talk about why calm can feel unfamiliar, how stability supports healing, and why the ordinary days matter more than we realise.
Boring can be stable.
Stable can be healing.
You’re not behind.
You’re healing.
12 Feb 2026
Episode 3 When Shame gets LOUD
Shame wants you to hide — recovery asks you to stay.
Shame can feel heavy and isolating. This episode explores how it shows up in recovery and why staying, even when it’s uncomfortable, is an act of courage. You are not your worst mistake.
11 Feb 2026
Episode 2 – The Slow Days
Recovery doesn’t always feel like progress — and that’s okay.
Most of recovery happens on quiet days. In this episode, we reflect on the invisible work — showing up even when nothing seems to change. You are not alone while you do the time.
11 Feb 2026
Episode 1 – Why This Space Exists
This space exists for the quiet work of recovery — one day at a time.
Recovery doesn’t have to be dramatic. This episode introduces Doing Time in Recovery — a space for the ordinary, unseen work of healing. If you’re still showing up, this is for you.
1 Feb 2026
Intro to Doing time in Recovery
Doing Time in Recovery is a space for real, raw healing.
It’s about learning how to live without numbing the pain.
It’s about sitting with the feelings we once ran from.
It’s about rebuilding a life — one honest moment at a time.
Recovery isn’t a quick fix.
It’s doing the time.
Feeling the grief.
Facing the past.
Choosing growth over escape.
Here, we honour progress over perfection.
We speak the truth about addiction, trauma, and healing.
And we remind each other that no matter how far we’ve fallen —
we are never beyond hope.
You’re not alone in this.
And you never have to do it in silence again.
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