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.
Doing The Work: A Naples Integrated Recovery Podcast
Why People Stay Stuck: What Recovery Circles Often Miss
Explore stuck patterns through a fuller lens — not just as “addiction issues,” but as adaptations shaped by trauma, emotional disconnection, and the roles people had to play in childhood. Drawing on clinical experience, long-term recovery, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and the work of trauma experts, this episode breaks down what some recovery circles never talk about: why emotional suppression becomes the core problem, how rapid mood shifts are often misdiagnosed as bipolar disorder when it’s really dysregulation, the purpose our coping tools served, why peer-led programs help but don’t tell the whole story, and what genuine healing actually requires.
This is a grounded look at human behavior — beyond slogans, beyond self-blame — toward connection, agency, and the slow rebuilding of a relationship with yourself.
Check out the website for articles published weekly: www.naplesintegratedrecovery.com
Want to work together? I see psychotherapy clients in Florida:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/brian-granneman-naples-fl/1153470
I also offer accountability, coaching, and sober companion services. Send an email: brian@naplesintegratedrecovery.com
