Most men walk into recovery overwhelmed. Sponsor, therapist, workbooks, disclosure, inner child, attachment styles, triggers, 12 steps, couples check-ins. All of it can help, and none of it is a map. Roy brings recovery down to its DNA: three jobs. Tell the truth. Face the harm. Live one life.
Sobriety is the floor. It's the entry ticket, not the work. What comes after it is integrity, impact, and integration, and you'll be growing in those three lanes for the rest of your life. Simple, but not easy.
In this episode:
- What integrity includes beyond "I stopped lying"
- Why your partner is not your accountability partner
- Why she decides what she can handle, and you don't filter for her
- Why the only metric for truth-telling is accuracy, never her reaction
- The 22 traumatic injuries across three phases, and the exercise that shows you the cost
- How you respond to her pain today, and why patience means her timeline
- Why an integrated life is supposed to be boring
- Why all three jobs are simultaneous and last a lifetime
Chapters:
00:00 Drinking from a fire hydrant
01:35 Have we made recovery too complicated?
02:00 Sobriety is the entry ticket, not recovery
02:25 The three jobs
03:30 Job one: Tell the truth
05:10 Your partner is not your accountability partner
05:30 She decides what she can handle
06:50 Easy truths and hard truths
08:00 The only metric is accuracy
09:45 Truthful, sober, and still unsafe
10:05 Job two: Face the harm
11:30 The three-page exercise
13:30 Patience and her timeline
15:05 Job three: Live one life
16:55 A man worth moving toward
18:55 Are you becoming a safe man?
Resources: Shared Reality Worksheet: https://joy-recovery.com/shared-reality
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