Jersey Shore’s Mike “The Situation” and Lauren Sorrentino on Sobriety and Parenthood

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Dr. Becky

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🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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You might know Mike “The Situation” and Lauren Sorrentino from Jersey Shore. Today, they’re parents of three, navigating recovery and raising resilient kids. In this candid conversation with Dr. Becky, they share how sobriety shapes their parenting, how they plan to talk with their children about substances, and why connection - not perfection - is the key to breaking cycles.

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0:00.0	So today I have two what might seem like kind of unexpected guests on my podcast.
0:05.6	Mike and Lauren Sorrentino.
0:08.1	You might know them from the Jersey Shore franchise.
0:11.5	I mean, I think GTL is one of the most known acronyms.
0:15.2	Am I right?
0:16.0	So here's the backstory.
0:17.7	Lauren reposted something on Instagram from my Instagram account. That led to us
0:22.6	exchanging a DM, then voice notes, then we had a real conversation, and I learned so much on this
0:28.0	phone call. I learned about her and Mike's family history around addiction. I learned about
0:34.4	Mike's commitment to sobriety, and I learned about their incredible commitment
0:40.0	to intentional, connected parenting.
0:43.6	I knew so many of the themes from this conversation would resonate, and so I brought them to
0:48.7	the studio to talk about it.
0:50.8	I'm Dr. Becky, and this is good inside.
0:53.4	We'll be back right after this.
0:54.7	Welcome. So I want to talk about so many things today. I know we'll end up talking
1:13.0	about parenting. You're both parents of three. I'm parent of three. I know we think a lot about
1:17.6	how we raise our kids and what really matters not only these early years, but how it ladders up
1:23.4	to what really matters in the kind of teen adult years.
1:28.3	But sometimes I think the best way of understanding what matters to us today
1:33.3	is actually to start by rewinding a little bit
1:36.3	and thinking about our childhoods and kind of where a lot of things came from.
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