The Loving Leverage Podcast
Welcome to The Loving Leverage Podcast, presented by Valiant Living, where we help you love someone through addiction without losing yourself in the process.
If someone you love is struggling with addiction, you know how heavy that weight can be. You want to help, but nothing seems to work. This podcast is for you. Host Drew Powell (Recovery Advocate and Valiant Living alumnus) sits down with betrayal trauma experts, CSATs, therapists, betrayed partners, and alumni living in recovery, along with Valiant Living Founder and CEO Michael Dinneen, LCSW, CSAT-S, creator of the Loving Leverage™ framework.
Valiant Living has been restoring lives and families since 2017. Fully accredited by The Joint Commission, Valiant offers residential care, PHP, IOP, and detox services for men and their families, and has earned a national reputation as a premier treatment program for men ages 26 and older.
If you or someone you love is ready for help, call us at 720-669-1285 or visit valiantliving.com. We'd love to have a conversation with you.
The Loving Leverage Podcast
Latest Episodes
Stop Waiting, Start Setting Boundaries
Wait for rock bottom. Wait until he's ready. Wait until it gets bad enough. Families hear that advice constantly, and Mike Loverde says it quietly turns the whole family into what he calls a voluntary hostage.Mike is the founder and Clin...
When Food Becomes the New Fix with Vanessa Scaringi and Kathryn Garland
Food can look harmless next to porn, alcohol, or gambling. That is exactly why it so often becomes the quiet replacement after a man gets sober. We see it all the time at Valiant: a man starts doing the hard work of recovery, and a new pattern ...
Jeanne Vattuone: Partner Sensitivity and the Trauma Nobody Named
Discovery doesn't only hurt. For many partners it shakes their sense of reality, safety, and trust in their own judgment. And for years, the helping world told those partners they were part of the problem.Jeanne Vattuone has spent her ca...
Episode 70 · Love Without Rescuing with Ian and Roxcy Brown
Love can look heroic while it quietly keeps the cycle alive. When someone we love is stuck in addiction, the instinct is to fix, cover, explain, and cushion the consequences. But what if the most loving move is to stop rescuing?Drew is j...
Mondays with Michael: He Keeps Saying He's Fine. What Now?
The hardest part of getting a man into treatment is rarely finding the right program. It's the moment a smart, successful, "I'm fine" kind of man starts negotiating for control while the people who love him are running out of hope.This i...
