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 Lizard Brain and Second Arrow
In this episode, we break down why your amygdala fires in 12 milliseconds and hijacks your reactions long before your thinking brain comes online. From Publix checkout lines to relationship conflict, we explore the “second arrow,” CBT interpretation loops, vulnerability triggers, and how to shift from reflexive reaction to intentional response. This is emotional maturity through a neurobiological lens — without shame, without spiritual bypassing, just clear, grounded psychology.
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
