Doing The Work: A Naples Integrated Recovery Podcast

Doing The Work: A Naples Integrated Recovery Podcast goes beyond motivational quotes and surface-level “growth” discussions. This podcast is about the uncomfortable, necessary work that real recovery demands — emotional honesty, nervous system regulation, accountability, repairing relationships, and learning how to stop abandoning yourself.

Hosted by Brian Granneman, LMHC, CAP, CCTP, a psychotherapist specializing in trauma, addiction, and integrated recovery, this podcast blends clinical insight with lived experience.

No grad school jargon. No guru woo-woo energy. No “manifest your way out" or peer-led program clichés and bumper sticker wisdom. Just real conversations about how people change — and why they don’t.

We dig into:

Trauma and emotional wounds that don’t fit DSM boxes
Addiction, relapse cycles, and what sobriety actually requires
Boundaries, differentiation, and breaking generational patterns
Relationships, intimacy, communication, and the parts of ourselves we avoid
Shame, fear, avoidance, and how to stop letting your history run your life
The quieter forms of addiction: people-pleasing, anger, perfectionism, emotional outsourcing

Some episodes will be structured lessons. Others will feel like a speaker meeting. Some will dig into Stoicism, family systems, or spirituality. All of them will come back to the same thing: you can’t get better by thinking about change — only by doing the work.

If you’re tired of shortcuts, tired of stories that keep you powerless, and ready to build a life you’re actually proud of, welcome.

Contributors

Host

Brian Granneman

I’m Brian Granneman, LMHC, CAP, CCTP—someone who spent years helping others while privately fighting my own 15-year battle with addiction. Getting well changed everything, and now I help people do the same.

I work with trauma, addiction, and the patterns that keep people stuck—especially first responders, medical professionals, military, and fellow therapists who need a place where they can be real without being analyzed. My approach is direct and grounded: no clichés, no self-help fluff. Just practical tools, honest reflection, and the kind of conversations that help people take ownership and work toward becoming a stronger, more stable version of themselves.

Outside the office, I’m usually playing music, gardening, hiking, traveling, or with my partner and our rescue animals. This podcast brings the same work I do in the therapy room into a wider conversation about change, agency, and what it takes to rebuild your life from the inside out.

https://www.naplesintegratedrecovery.com/brian