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Episode 11 - Relapse isn't Failure
In Episode 11 of Reconnection Moments, Dr. Michael Barta reframes one of the most misunderstood experiences in addiction recovery: relapse.Rather than viewing relapse ...
Episode 10 - Why White-Knuckling Fails
In Episode 10 of the Reconnection Podcast, Dr. Michael Barta explores a recovery strategy many people know well: white knuckling. Trying harder. Clamping down. Using d...
Episode 9 - Substitute for Connection
In Episode 9 of the Reconnection Podcast, Dr. Michael Barta explores one of the core insights of the Reconnection Model: addiction is not the problem. It is a nervous ...
Episode 8 - Rewriting the Stories the Nervous System Learned
In Episode 8 of Reconnection Podcast, Dr. Michael Barta explores how the nervous system forms powerful survival stories in early life and how those stories continue to...
Episode 7 - Moving from Survival
How do we move from survival mode back into genuine connection? Dr. Michael Barta explains the nervous system’s logic behind protective states and why shifts toward co...
Episode 6 - What Safety Feels like
What does safety feel like in the body? And how do we know when we have left connection and moved into protection? In this episode of Reconnection Podcast, Dr. Michael...
Episode 5 - The Four Pillars of Safety and Connection
In this episode Dr. Michael Barta breaks down the Four Pillars of the Reconnection Model — authenticity, vulnerability, transparency, and presence — and explains exact...
Episode 4 - When Survival Becomes Suffering
In this episode Dr. Michael Barta explores the moment when an addiction that once helped someone survive begins to create shame, secrecy, emotional pain, and exhaustio...
Episode 3 – Addiction as the Nervous System’s Survival Strategy
In this episode Dr. Michael Barta lays out a neurobiological, trauma-informed framework for understanding addiction as the nervous system’s attempt to survive. Rather ...
Episode 2 - Why Do I Do What I Hate? Moving Beyond Shame and Willpower in Addiction Recovery
In this episode of Reconnection Moments, Dr. Michael Barta, creator of The Reconnection Model, challenges the core concepts of addiction and recovery. He reveals why f...
Episode 1 - The Reconnection Model: A Neurobiological Approach to Healing Sex Addiction and Intimacy Disorders
Welcome to the first episode of Reconnection Moments! Dr. Michael Barta, creator of The Reconnection Model and the Reconnection Intensives, dives deep into the neurobi...