Author name: Julie Miller

Parenting teens and adult children is complicated under even the best circumstances. Add some mistakes caused by alcohol into the mix, and it can feel overwhelming. In this episode, the conversation centers on a question that runs deep: how to parent teens and adult children after addiction -especially when guilt, fear, and past mistakes feel

Why do I feel lonely when I’m surrounded by people? That question sits beneath a lot of sober lives. It shows up after the drinking stops and the noise dies down. When someone starts telling the truth more often, setting better boundaries, or realizing that being around people is not the same thing as feeling

Burnout doesn’t usually show up all at once. Most of the time, it creeps in slowly and insidiously – often looking a lot like regular stress. You feel a little more overwhelmed than usual. Your patience gets shorter. Small things start setting you off. You’re tired, but you keep pushing because the list of responsibilities

Many people reach a point where life looks fine on paper yet feels strangely hollow. As host Julie Miller explains in the episode, this experience is more common than most realize: “My life is really great – and – I still feel kind of empty, like something’s missing.” In this conversation with Kristyna Holler and

When Emotions Feel Like the Enemy Many people trying to live alcohol-free discover something surprising: the hardest part is not quitting drinking. It is facing what comes after. As Julie Miller explains early in the conversation, people often ask, “What do you do to stop feeling things if you aren’t drinking?” That question reveals the

Some nights, loneliness doesn’t look like tears or drama. It looks like a thumb scrolling in bed while your brain searches for relief. It looks like “just five minutes” that turns into thirty. It looks like walking away from your phone with a sour taste in your mouth and not knowing why. In Episode 180