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
The Raft
This episode explores a simple story with a lot of psychological weight: the raft you build to survive one season of life isn’t the vessel you’re meant to carry forever.
We talk about outgrowing anything that once kept you afloat — relationships, belief systems, workplaces, identities, recovery communities, or roles your family needed you to play.
I walk through the parable of the raft in plain language, connect it to real developmental transitions, and break down what differentiation actually looks like in adulthood:
- letting go without rejecting your past
- growing without apologizing for it
- staying grounded even when others misinterpret your change
- honoring what once protected you without dragging it into every new chapter
We also look at the psychology behind why people get uncomfortable when you grow beyond the container you started in — and how to navigate that without defensiveness or contempt.
This isn’t an episode about addiction or a single recovery model. It’s a conversation about evolution, identity, and the courage to move forward when a structure has done its job.
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
