Dr. Samantha Harte
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Recovery talk with faith, nerve, and tenderness.
The Truth About Addiction treats recovery as more than staying sober. Through intimate interviews and reflective solo episodes, it follows people turning relapse, faith, ambition, friendship, and old survival patterns into language for healing.
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The Truth About Addiction is a recovery-centered show with a wide emotional lens. Addiction is the starting point, but the conversations keep moving toward the deeper injuries and longings underneath it. Shame comes up often. So do faith, trauma, attachment, ambition, friendship, motherhood, service, and the body’s memory of survival. The show’s strongest moments happen when a guest is allowed to stay vulnerable long enough for the story to become useful. Romy Marie’s appearance turns a raw life story into a conversation about testimony, Christian faith, identity, and refusing old labels. Lisa Arrigo’s episode brings relapse into the language of nervous-system safety, complex trauma, attachment, and physiological shame. Darren Prince speaks from long-term sobriety about professional success, service, inner-child healing, and the difference between being seen and being fulfilled. Ricky Rebel brings a brighter, more playful charge to episodes about spirituality, success, friendship, boundaries, and not forcing relationships that no longer fit. The solo episodes give the show another mode. In them, Dr. Sam reflects on purpose, entrepreneurship, Strong Heart Fitness, motherhood, spiritual timing, and the discipline of trusting what arrives with ease. The pacing is patient, but not detached. Conversations can wander, circle back, and repeat a point until the emotional shape is clear. That is part of the appeal. The show is less interested in a tidy expert segment than in the moment when someone recognizes a pattern and gives it kinder language. It has support-group warmth, coaching-room intensity, and a faith-inflected sense that pain can become service. Listeners looking for purely clinical addiction education may find it too personal or spiritually open. Listeners who want sobriety framed as whole-life healing will likely feel at home. The show makes room for people who are still becoming, not just people with a finished recovery story.
Made for: For listeners interested in sobriety, relapse, trauma healing, faith, boundaries, and emotionally honest personal growth. It especially suits people who want recovery language that includes the body, relationships, purpose, and spiritual repair.
What sets it apart: The show connects addiction recovery to nervous-system safety, testimony, entrepreneurship, friendship, and service without stripping away the messiness of lived experience. Its interviews feel less like expert lectures and more like vulnerable conversations that search for meaning in real time.
Dr. Samantha Harte is a speaker, best selling author, coach and sober mom of two. She is here to tell the truth about her life, which requires telling the truth about her addiction: how it presents, how it manifests, and how it shows up again and again in her recovery. This podcast is one giant deep dive into the truth about ALL TYPES OF addiction (and living sober) to dispel the myths, expose the truths, and create a community experience of worthiness, understanding and compassion.If you are a mompreneur and are looking for a community of like-minded women who...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Dr. Samantha Harte makes recovery legible as work on shame, trauma, relationships and the patterns beneath addictive behavior.
The Truth About Addiction treats sobriety as an ongoing examination of what drives harmful patterns. Dr. Samantha Harte moves between guest conversations and solo episodes, connecting recovery with trauma, shame, relationships and the search for a life that feels…
Relapse stops being a moral verdict here, giving you room to ask what your nervous system remembers.
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A vulnerable recovery conversation about faith, identity, and hard-won peace.
Romy Marie's return to The Truth About Addiction is a candid, faith-centered conversation about a major life shift unfolding in real time. It follows her account of turning pain into purpose, setting aside old identities, and finding a calmer peace shaped by grace, forgiveness,…
Relapse is framed through the body and shame.
Lisa Arrigo is presented as a New York licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist whose practice centers on trauma, attachment, addiction, and neurobiology.
A sober conversation about success, service, and the self that emerges after the noise fades.
Darren Prince's conversation lands as a plainspoken look at sobriety, service, and the work of becoming someone you can actually live with. It is less about career milestones than about what happens when success stops being the point and starts becoming something useful to other…
A gym reopening becomes a plainspoken case for healing that reaches past the body.
This episode frames the reopening of Strong Heart Fitness as more than a business move, treating it as a recovery story shaped by care that only partly closes the wound.
A candid single-episode review about friendship, boundaries, and learning when not to force a connection.
This single-episode review centers on relationships as the place where growth gets tested in real time. The host and Ricki Rebel turn their friendship into the working example, tracing what happens when contact falls away after a scheduling conflict and neither person can quite…
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Hard conversations, patiently held, with room to laugh.
Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.
Romy Marie returns to The Truth About Addiction for a personal conversation about change, faith, and the story she is telling now.
The episode opens gently.
Darren Prince sits down for a conversation that moves quickly past biography and into the lived reality of recovery.
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The host announces that Strong Heart Fitness is reopening.
The Truth About Addiction uses Ricki Rebel’s friendship with the host to examine respect, boundaries, enmeshment, and self-abandonment.
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This episode features an interview with Douglas James, a veteran and successful entrepreneur, discussing his journey of healing from personal adversity and professional achievements in business.
This episode features a 20-minute interview with entrepreneur Dave Meltzer, exploring topics like addiction, spirituality, personal development, and vulnerable moments.
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