Podcast Episode Description:

In this episode of the CBT Coaching Podcast, Barry Gregory, Ed.D., M.Ed., BA, a professional CBT-Based Recovery Coach, challenges the outdated “tough love” approach and introduces SMART Love—a smarter, evidence-based way for families to support a loved one with addiction without enabling.

Discover why tough love often backfires by increasing shame, isolation, secrecy, and despair, and learn the five pillars of SMART Love:

• S: Support without Enabling
• M: Motivation through Empathy + Boundaries
• A: Accountability with Respect
• R: Resilience for the Family
• T: Tools Based on Evidence (not emotion)

I share powerful motivational strategies and cognitive reframes to help you stop enabling and rescuing thoughts and beliefs, practical SMART Love s ...