Reframeable Podcast

Join Coach Kevin and Coach Frank as they sit down with fellow coach Veronica Rockwitz for a powerful conversation about shame, self-compassion, and the long road to healing. Together they explore how early trauma and loss can shape the survival patterns we carry into adulthood—people-pleasing, staying small, shame spirals—and what it takes to finally loosen their grip.

This episode digs into the tools that make l...

Changing your relationship with alcohol is rarely a straight line, and it almost never happens alone. This episode explores why "white knuckling" through sobriety in isolation so often leads back to old patterns, and what changes when we finally reach out for support. Coach Kevin and this week's guest dig into the connection between unresolved trauma and problematic drinking, the difference between simply putting down the glass and...

Join Coach Melinda and Coach Frank for a conversation about what healing really asks of us — and what it doesn't. This episode explores generational trauma and how the patterns handed down to us can be understood, interrupted, and repaired. We dig into the practice of holding two opposing truths at once — love and resentment, gratitude and anger — without collapsing into shame, and why that kind of honesty keeps u...

What happens when hitting rock bottom becomes the turning point? This episode explores the raw reality of a suicidal blackout and a night in a cell, and how that lowest moment sparked a decision to get and stay alcohol-free. The conversation digs into the belief that some people are simply "born to drink and die drinking" — and why that story can be rewritten. It's an honest look at the isolation that active addiction breeds,...

Join Coach Kevin and Coach Eric Fischer for a conversation about vision — setting an intentional aim for your life instead of drifting into one you never chose. This episode explores why the brain is a goal-seeking machine that reverts to whatever's safe, familiar, or novel — alcohol and other escapes included — when it has no clear direction. The discussion digs into how identity shifts throughout our lives, why ...

Join Coach Eric Fischer and Dr. Frank Spinelli—physician, certified health and trauma-informed coach, and author of The Shame Compass—for a deep conversation about the emotion most of us spend our lives trying to outrun.

This episode unpacks the crucial difference between guilt and shame: guilt says "I did something bad" and can move us toward repair, while shame whispers "I am bad" and attaches itself to our ide...

Getting to day one can be the hardest part. In this deeply personal episode, Matt, a professional Los Angeles musician, shares how a fifteen-year drinking habit, a DUI, and the loss of his mother converged into one of the hardest seasons of his life—and how he eventually made his way to a sobriety date he chose for himself: January 13, 2025.

This conversation explores what it actually takes to reach day one and, more i...

In this episode you'll get: a working definition of self-care that goes beyond indulgence and rest; why "should," "try," and "all in" are protection mechanisms worth noticing in your own language; the case for meeting yourself where you are (75% today is your 100%) instead of chasing an idealized best; how starting impossibly small — one page, one post, lacing up your shoes — compounds into change you never planned for;...

Join Coach Kevin Bellack and Coach Frank Spinelli, MD, one of Reframe's trauma-informed health coaches, for a guest-free deep dive into the medical side of changing your relationship with alcohol. In this episode, they unpack Reframe Med and the growing role of medical interventions in cutting back or quitting drinking.

The conversation centers on naltrexone: what it is, how it works to blunt alcohol's effects by blocking th...

 Join Coach Kevin, Coach Eric, and Reframe Coach Maria Thelke for a conversation about healing trauma, building secure attachment, and understanding why we reach for alcohol in the first place. Maria is a trauma-informed relationship and recovery coach who specializes in helping people heal from trauma, build secure relationships, and create lasting change through nervous system regulation and attachment science.

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Join Coach Kevin and Coach Frank as they welcome fellow Reframe coach Teri Katzenberger, a functional health and lifestyle wellness specialist who has been helping people build healthy, whole lives since 2005 and is celebrating 35 years of sobriety. Teri joined Reframe in December 2025 and brings both deep personal experience and a warm, no-nonsense coaching style to the conversation.

This episode explores what long-term rec...

Join Coach Kevin, Coach Frank, and Reframer Arely — a freelance photographer, aspiring novelist, and perfume enthusiast from Los Angeles who found her way to a more present, creative life after realizing she wasn't a moderator.

This episode explores how the simple habit of journaling can become a turning point in changing your relationship with alcohol. The conversation digs into why writing without worrying about gram...

Join Coach Kevin, Coach Eric, and Reframer Nirvana: a married mom of four and artist from South Florida who first came to Reframe simply curious about the science of alcohol.

This episode explores what happens when awareness, not a rock bottom, becomes the turning point. You'll hear about the heavy mental load of constantly counting drinks versus the freedom of taking things one "let's see" at a time, the fear many creatives...

What does it actually take to change a belief you've held for years — that you need alcohol to unwind, to sleep, to survive a hard day? In this episode, Coach Kevin and Coach Frank sit down with Ray Carroll, a four-year Reframe community member, to explore what happens when education alone isn't enough and why the missing ingredient for so many people is simply asking for help.

They dig into the long game of recovery &...

Join Coach Kevin and Coach Eric as they sit down with Nadine — a librarian, mom of two, and Reframer with almost two and a half years alcohol-free — as she opens up about the double life she thought only she was living: the master's degree, the great job, the happy family on the outside, and the nightly blackouts no one knew about. Nadine doesn't sugarcoat it, and what comes through is a story about isolation, surrender...

Join Coach Kevin and Coach Frank Spinelli — physician, trauma-informed coach, and Reframer — as Frank opens up about the journey that brought him to Reframe: a childhood trauma buried for decades, a pandemic that unraveled the life he'd carefully rebuilt, and the moment he woke up in his basement not remembering how he'd gotten there. Frank doesn't hold back and what comes through is a story about shame, denial, and wha...

Join Coach Kevin and Coach Eric Fischer as they sit down with Gina Welch — a  nurse practitioner with 26 years in healthcare, a Reframer (three years alcohol-free) — to talk about identity, escape, and the long work of becoming someone new.

They dig into why heavy drinking is rarely about the drink (it's about what the drink lets you not feel), how working in an ER through COVID turned an already-heavy habit into so...

Join Coach Kevin and Eric Fischer as they sit down to talk about identity, addiction, and the slow work of becoming someone new.

They dig into why alcohol isn't usually the problem (it's the solution to one), how chronic pain, professional setbacks, and family stress can quietly fuel a drinking problem, and why so many high-achievers don't recognize addiction until it has them by the throat. You'll hear about the late-in-life ADHD d...

Join Coach Kevin and Frank as they sit down with longtime Reframer Max Miller — four and a half years sober, husband, father, and sales professional  to talk about the Sunday morning he decided to stop drinking and the life that followed.

They dig into why alcohol isn't usually the problem (it's the solution to one), the science behind why recovery isn't a moral failing, and how shame, isolation, and the "I should be able...