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S2 E38 | Staying When the Conversation Gets Hard | Integrity Circle Teaching

October 19, 2026 · 37 min

This episode of Joy Recovery Radio is a little different. Every Monday night Roy teaches live inside the Integrity Circle, and this is one of those teachings, shared so you can hear what actually happens in the room. The topic is staying…
S2 E37 | Why She Asks the Same Question Forty Times

October 12, 2026 · 23 min

You've answered her question ten times. Maybe forty. So why does she keep asking? Roy opens with the sigh he made "on about 100 occasions" when his wife asked a question he had already answered. Then he explains what took him years to…
S2 E36 | What Her Wound Actually Needs

October 5, 2026 · 30 min

Job's friends sat with him in silence for seven days. It was the best thing they did. Then they started explaining his pain to him. Roy spent nearly two years after discovery being that kind of friend. In this episode he walks through the…
S2 E35 | How Men Actually Change

September 28, 2026 · 52 min

Why can a man understand his patterns and speak fluent recovery language, yet stay the same man a year later? Many couples live with that question. In this episode, Roy takes it on directly. Recorded live during our webinar How Men…
S2 E34 | Stop Trying to Get Your Wife Back

September 21, 2026 · 24 min

Most men in recovery are working hard. The problem is what the work is aimed at. This episode takes apart a pattern that shows up in almost every man's recovery after discovery day: the private contract. It's the deal a man writes in his…

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S2 E33 | The Three Jobs of Real Recovery

September 13, 2026 · 21 min

Most men walk into recovery overwhelmed. Sponsor, therapist, workbooks, disclosure, inner child, attachment styles, triggers, 12 steps, couples check-ins. All of it can help, and none of it is a map. Roy brings recovery down to its DNA…
S2 E32 | You Trained Her Not to Trust You

September 7, 2026 · 24 min

Seven months into being honest, I started a sentence with my wife that I never finished. "I've been honest with you for seven months now." She heard the rest of it anyway, and so did I: so you should trust me by now. That was an invoice…
S2 E31 | Integrity Abuse: Why You Keep Harming Her and How to Stop

August 31, 2026 · 39 min

For two years after D-Day, Jacqueline would bring me her grief, her anger, or a question she had already asked, and I would get defensive. My working theory was that if she would change her end of it, even by 10%, I could manage mine…
S2 E30 | When She Knows More About HIs Recovery That He Does

August 24, 2026 · 35 min

She Knows More About His Recovery Than He Does A listener sent us this question: "When does a betrayed partner's expertise in recovery accidentally become scaffolding that prevents the betrayer from developing his own?" We spend the…
S2 E29 | Right Sight: Overcoming Objectification

August 17, 2026 · 34 min

Somewhere in the last hour, you sized someone up from a single look. Your mind took one piece of information and wrote a whole biography. In this solo episode, Roy makes the case that the machinery producing those instant biographies is…
S2 E28 | Listening Without Self-Referencing: The Hardest Skill in Recovery

August 10, 2026 · 42 min

He can be silent, nod, even say all the right words, and still not be listening. In this episode, Roy defines the skill that often determines whether a relationship has any chance of becoming safe again: listening without…
S2 E27 | Your Wife is Grieving Someone Who Never Existed: Here's Your Job

August 3, 2026 · 22 min

Hurricane Katrina came ashore more than twenty years ago. Some neighborhoods came back stronger than before. Others still sit under blue tarps. That is the most honest map we know of a betrayed partner's inner world. This episode is about…

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About the show

Welcome, this is Jacqueline and Roy (AKA ”Team Joy), your hosts for Joy Recovery Radio, where we offer hope, healing, and practical tools for couples navigating the difficult journey of recovery from sex addiction and betrayal trauma. We have been in your shoes, and it’s our mission to share our expertise, personal experiences and the latest research in every episode. We can testify that healing and recovery are possible. To find additional resources, coaching, and live webinars, please visit our website joy-recovery.com