Loving an Addict

I spoke with Cory Martin of The Recovery Revolution recently and found out how the comedian weaved her childhood dysfunction and experience with an alcoholic partner into a thriving addiction and codependency recovery platform.

She learned codependency in childhood, where her whole family dealt with codependency and addiction. “No one modelled a healthy way of living,” said Martin. At the age of seven, Martin watched her stepdad living with ALS until he died when she was sixteen. Not to mention he’d been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, which often leaves a family walking on eggshells.

Combining her childhood with her partner’s experience convinced Martin that addiction is a developmental problem, based on missing relational, societal, and psychological needs being met, which leads people to seek unhealthy ways to cope.

That’s where she meets her clients—in the middle of loving an addict.

She realized it took too long to heal from her own codependency in relationships. So Martin developed processes to help people recognize where they are in their recovery process—and where they need to be. In a program she calls Heal for Real she incorporates mindfulness, yoga, journaling, along with incorporating what she’s learned from studying addiction and attachment.

“I saw people working other programs and it took too long, people were falling through the cracks,” said Martin. “I help people not fall through by incorporating the best of all they offer and synthesizing it into one program that builds off pieces of each.”

Like me, it’s her passion to help families struggling with someone in addiction. I help them recognize their codependency and Martin takes it from there. Her goal is to get the word out and turn the addiction conversation upside down. “The Recovery Revolution is also a mission,” she said.

Learn more about The Recovery Revolution at  https://academy.therecoveryrevolution.com/free-workshop.