In this week’s episode of Breen Time, Sabrina is joined by special guest Eric Fisher for an honest conversation about what addiction really is — and what it actually takes to break free.

Recovery isn’t a moment.

It isn’t the decision you make on a bad night, or the promise you make to yourself on a Monday morning.

It’s a discipline — practised daily, often quietly, long after everyone else has stopped watching.

Addiction rarely arrives on its own. It grows out of trauma, avoidance, and patterns that once helped you cope and now quietly run your life. Understanding how those patterns take hold is the first step towards loosening their grip.

Drawing on more than 15 years of clinical experience across inpatient and outpatient settings, Eric brings a grounded, practical perspective to healing — one built on responsibility, structure, and evidence-based approaches including ART and EMDR.

You’ll hear reflections on:

• What addiction really is beneath the behaviour — and why willpower alone doesn’t touch it
• How trauma and destructive patterns take hold, and why they feel so hard to interrupt
• Why recovery is better understood as self-mastery than as a single decision
• What ART and EMDR offer people working through trauma
• The role of responsibility and structure in long-term change
• How to build the internal strength that sustains mental wellness over years, not weeks

This episode isn’t about quick fixes or dramatic turning points.

It’s about the steady, unglamorous work that actually holds.

If you’ve struggled to break a pattern you understand perfectly well, watched someone you love caught in one, or wondered what real recovery looks like beyond the slogans, this conversation offers a clear and compassionate way in.

Breen Time is a weekly wellbeing podcast from Brum Radio, hosted by life coach and management consultant Sabrina Brown. New episodes every Monday.

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