Instability and Love: A Conversation About Family, Addiction, and Recovery
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2026
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
This week's podcast is such a special one because it focuses on our family. Jason sits down with his brother, Todd, to talk about growing up together, the chaos of addiction within family, anxiety, self-compassion, and healing as an ongoing process.
I love both of these men so much, and I'm so proud of them for sharing so openly.
This isn't a yoga-specific episode — it's a conversation between two brothers about family trauma and the instability that addiction creates for everyone, not just the person with the addiction.
I hope you will listen, and if you or someone you know is struggling with addiction or is in recovery, I hope you will share it.
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| 0:00.0 | I often get asked by listeners how they can support the show, and now I have a way that you can. |
| 0:05.0 | So you can support the show through the ACAST supporter feature. Just go to supporter.acast.com |
| 0:11.6 | slash yoga land. It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. |
| 0:16.4 | I so appreciate any contribution you want to make and know that the funds go toward paying my |
| 0:22.0 | producer and other people who help me create this show. That's supporter.acast.com |
| 0:28.1 | slash yoga land. Welcome, everybody. Some of you are watching this on my YouTube channel. Some of you |
| 0:34.1 | are listening to this on a podcast, Yoga Land. But this is a conversation between me and my brother. And I want to give you just a little bit of context and set up first. My brother has an organization called Racing for Recovery. It's based in Salito, Ohio. He also has online services and meetings, but Todd also has a podcast, and I'm going to |
| 0:57.1 | link that information below. And when he asked me to be on his podcast, I said, yes, of course, |
| 1:03.0 | absolutely. But I also want to release our conversation on my platform. And one of the reasons I want |
| 1:09.0 | to release it on my platform is because addiction and |
| 1:13.5 | recovery affects so many, and it affects so, not just, not just so many, it affects a lot of |
| 1:22.2 | yoga teachers and a lot of yoga practitioners. Recovery for many is a, is a route through which they connect to themselves and yoga for many. |
| 1:32.9 | And this is not something that I really ever speak to. |
| 1:36.8 | I am fortunate to not struggle with substance abuse or addiction in that way. |
| 1:41.8 | And so this is not something that I regularly talk about. Also, to be |
| 1:48.1 | frank, those of you that have had family members struggle with addiction, loved ones struggle |
| 1:55.7 | with addiction, you know it's also traumatic. This is not something that is easy for me to talk about. |
| 2:01.5 | The conversation that we're about to have, I love having it with him. |
| 2:05.6 | I think it's so important to have it with him. |
| 2:09.2 | But if we weren't talking about our background, I don't really want to talk about it, if that makes sense, right? |
| 2:17.4 | The kind of the only person in this world that I'm happy to have the conversation with |
| 2:23.9 | is the person I actually went through it with. |
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