Send us Fan Mail What if your loved one doesn’t change right away? What if they’re still struggling, still making choices you don’t understand, and still leaving you wondering, “Am I doing enough? Am I helping? Am I enabling? Am I just stuck in the same painful loop?” In this episode of Get Unhooked, Jason closes out week six of the family recovery masterclass with a powerful reminder: your freedom cannot depend on your loved one’s sobriety. Jason walks through how the 12 Steps apply to famil...
Jul 6
38 min
Send us Fan Mail What if the words “I’m sorry” are not enough? In this episode of Brick House, Jason Coombs walks through one of the most powerful parts of recovery: making real amends. Not the kind that asks someone else to hurry up and forgive you. Not the kind that tries to erase the past with one emotional conversation. Real amends are different. They require honesty, specificity, humility, and sustained change. Jason introduces the CLEAN Framework for making amends: C — Choose the moment...
Jun 29
40 min
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Brick House Podcast, Jason Coombs shares a powerful conversation from just outside Yellowstone, beginning with a personal story about seeing wild bears with his wife during a sacred season of her cancer journey. From there, Jason leads listeners into a deeper discussion on Step 9, grief, surrender, and what it really means to make amends. So often, families impacted by addiction are told to forgive, apologize, move on, or “just set boundaries.” But real...
Jun 22
42 min
Send us Fan Mail When you love someone struggling with addiction, even a simple conversation can feel like walking into a courtroom, a battlefield, or a trap. You want to help. You want to say the right thing. You want them to open up, be honest, and finally see what you see. But too often, the conversation turns into defensiveness, arguing, guilt, shutdown, or another exhausting ride on the addiction rollercoaster. In this episode, Jason Coombs teaches families how to approach hard conversat...
Jun 15
57 min
Send us Fan Mail What if the biggest mistake families make in addiction recovery is focusing on the wrong mountain? In this episode, Jason shares a deeply personal reflection after celebrating his birth son’s 19th birthday—a moment that reminded him just how impossible recovery once felt. For years, addiction felt like an endless cycle of trying, failing, promising, and starting over. The distance between hope and reality felt impossible to cross. So what changed? Jason breaks down the 3 ...
Jun 8
1 hr 13 min
Send us Fan Mail If you have an addicted loved one and you have been holding everything together for longer than you can remember, this is the episode where it starts to come apart, in the best possible way. Jason takes you inside one of the most pivotal weeks of the six-week Live Unhooked Masterclass. You will learn why cleaning the goldfish never works, what really happens in Step Four of recovery, and the one psychological model that explains why the same loving move you have made a hundre...
Jun 1
58 min
Send us Fan Mail You're still functioning. You're answering the crisis calls, researching treatment centers, watching for signs, holding the family together. But underneath all of it, your own oxygen is getting thinner. In the opening week of the Unhooked Masterclass, Jason Coombs sits down with families who love someone with substance use disorder and names what most of them already feel but rarely say out loud: addiction can slowly take the air out of your own life. This episode is the firs...
May 26
1 hr 1 min
Send us Fan Mail EPISODE 57 -DESCRIPTION Two commercial pilots had a checklist for a cabin pressure problem. They followed every step except one. The plane crashed and everyone on board died. If you love someone with addiction, you've been making the same mistake. In Episode 57, Jason Coombs teaches the emotional raincoat: the one shift that separates families who burn out from families who create the conditions for their loved one's recovery. You'll hear the Tuesday morning scenario m...
May 18
47 min
Send us Fan Mail If you’re the mom, dad, or spouse who has become the detective, the cleanup crew, and the emotional first responder, this one is for you. In this solo episode, Jason Coombs sits down with the families who are exhausted from organizing their entire lives around someone else’s addiction. He shares the one shift that changes everything: your loved one’s recovery begins when you change first. Jason is not speaking from theory. He is speaking from both sides of this. He was the ad...
May 11
45 min
Send us Fan Mail Everyone is talking about ibogaine like it’s the cure for addiction. I’m telling you why I’m saying no. You’ve probably heard the buzz. A “breakthrough.”A “reset.”Maybe even the answer your family has been praying for.Ibogaine is everywhere right now. Podcasts. Headlines. Conversations between people who are desperate for something to finally work. So let’s talk about it. In this episode, I give you my honest, unfiltered answer to the question I’ve been asked more than anythi...
May 4
30 min
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