2695: How Family Members Enable Their Addict Loved Ones | Rock Recovery Center
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 11.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Are You Enabling an Addict? … How to break the Cycle
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The MP x Rock Recovery Center partnership. (2:32)
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Accepting the truth that something needs to change. (5:53)
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Compassion fatigue. (9:25)
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You can love your addict to death. (11:42)
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Don’t act on emotion. (19:57)
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Being the best manipulator in the room. (24:17)
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Enabling loved ones. (28:24)
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Where does their drive come from? (33:41)
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Don’t ever try to figure this out on your own! (39:52)
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Their take on marijuana. (44:25)
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Is kratom becoming an issue? (49:04)
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Perception. (1:02:09)
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Don’t kick the can down the road. (1:04:57)
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Can you logic an addict into recovery? (1:12:53)
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Homework items. (1:21:36)
Related Links/Products Mentioned
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Featured Guest(s)/People Mentioned
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Thomas Conrad (@realrecoverytalktom) Instagram
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Ben Bueno (@realrecoverytalkben) Instagram
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Chris "Boar" Bell (@bigstrongfast) Instagram
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Chris Williamson (@chriswillx) Instagram
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
| 0:06.3 | Mind Pump. |
| 0:07.1 | Mind Pump with your hosts. |
| 0:09.2 | Sal DeStefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.4 | You just found the most downloaded fitness, health, and entertainment podcast. |
| 0:16.7 | This is Mind Pump. |
| 0:18.3 | This is a special episode. |
| 0:20.3 | We had Ben and Tom on the show. |
| 0:22.5 | They're the hosts of the Real Recovery podcast. |
| 0:25.7 | They also run a rehab facility called Rock Recovery, which we've partnered with. |
| 0:31.9 | Today we had them on the podcast talking to friends and family members of addicts. |
| 0:37.6 | Oftentimes they're the ones, or they are contributing to the cycle of addiction. |
| 0:43.5 | It's very difficult to help somebody who's an addict. |
| 0:47.0 | And oftentimes the things that we do that help counter what we think are best. |
| 0:53.7 | Tom and Ben are experts in this. |
| 0:55.8 | They themselves were addicts years ago. |
| 0:57.7 | They've been sober for a long time. |
| 0:59.1 | And now they help other addicts and family members. |
| 1:02.4 | And also, again, of course, they host that podcast, Real Recovery. |
| 1:06.0 | We know you're going to love this episode. |
| 1:07.4 | And we hope it helps you if this is you. |
| 1:10.2 | If this episode's for you, again, I really hope this helps you if this is you. If this episode's for you, |
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