Gettin Your Life Back with Cade Cooper
by Cade Cooper
Episode 35 - Dating & Relationships-Healing Your Chaos Addiction
About this podcast
My name is Cade Cooper! I’m a small town Utah boy. I’m a single father, small business owner, and member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (sometimes incorrectly referred to as the Mormon Church). I’m in long term recovery from a crippling drug and pornography addiction.
I will explore numerous modalities to aid in gettin your life back. Through enough of mine and others stories, as well as my views on a number of social and mental health issues, my hope is you will incorporate tools into your life to achieve similar results. Let’s get our lives back! 💙👊
Episodes
The newest 20 of 35 episodes
- Episode 35 - Dating & Relationships-Healing Your Chaos Addiction · 1 h 1 min · Episode 35In this episode, I talk about how if we do not heal from our past trauma we will re-create it in our new relationships .
- Episode 34 - Pamela Pamela: For Those Whose Loved Ones Struggle With Addiction · 58 min · Episode 34In this episode, I sit down with my good friend Pamela. She gives a powerful experience of how living with a loved one who suffers from addiction can also make you sick. She…
- Episode 33: Follow Up with Dru Wood - How I am conquering Heroin-18 months clean! · 43 minIn this episode, I follow up with my guest from episode 25, Dru Wood. When we last heard from Dru he was just getting clean from a two year Heroin addiction. He is now 18 years…
- Episode 32: Scott Drummond - The Most Viewed Near Death Experience of All Time · 43 minIn this episode, I sit down with Scott Drummond. I grew up with Scott. Scott shares an incredible story about dying, passing to the other side and coming back. Scott has been an…
- Episode 31: Doug Peterson - What I Learned from being a mid-singles ward Bishop for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints · 46 min · Episode 31In this episode I sit down with my old bishop from the Draper mid-singles ward. Doug talks about addiction, dating, business, and above all, Christ. I loved to doing this…
- Episode 30: Angel Rigby - Resilience Through Christ · 50 min · Episode 30In this episode I sit Down with Angel Rigby. She describes how through multiple marriages she was able to heal and stay optimistic through her faith in Christ.
- Episode 29: Sheri Duffy - Finding New Life After Losing My Son To Addiction · 33 min · Episode 29In this Episode I sit down with Sheri Duffy. Sheri’s son, Kelton, was a very close friend of mine. After a long battle with addiction, Kelton took his life in May, 2020. Sheri…
- Episode 28: Gettin My Life Back · 33 min · Episode 28In this episode I talk about the last 8 months of my life, which includes a devastating manic episode, a relapse, and almost losing everything. It may have been the hardest thing…
- Episode 27:Addiction-Resentments - Drinking Poison and Expecting it to Kill Someone else. · 36 min · Episode 27In this episode I discuss how the addict will look to resent people, so he can blame his dangerous behavior on them. This can turn deadly because he is no longer conflicted. I…
- Episode 26: Addiction Unplugged- Your Addiction Is Not Your Problem · 28 min · Episode 26With sobering determination, I dive into the dark, and often misunderstood, world of addiction. Like so many problems, our root cause is typically unresolved trauma that leads to…
- Episode 25: Dru Wood - Addicted to Heroin at 15 to Sober 4 Months at 17 · 34 min · Episode 25In this episode, I sit down with my buddy Dru! We discuss how his early life led to becoming addicted to heroin at the age of 15. Dru explains the physical and emotional…
- Episode 24: LeRoy Smith - How I Find Meaning From Drunk Driving to living With a Traumatic Brain Injury. · 21 min · Episode 24In this Episode, my good buddy, Leroy Smith, shares how a decision to drive drunk at 18 dramatically changed his life. He talks about a powerful near death experience where he…
- Episode 23 - Gabe Beckstead: How Dying Led me from an Atheist to an Advocate · 1 h 4 min · Episode 23In this episode I sit down with one of my best friends Gabe. We talk about his upbringing and how circumstances got so bad Gabe took his life. He describes an incredible…
- Episode 22: The Rise of the Sympathetic Narcissist · 29 min · Episode 22In this Episode I talk about sympathetic narcissism disguised as compassion. The idea that if you don’t think exactly like I do, you’re a bad person and I’m going to silence you…
- Episode 21 Dating: Anxious-Avoidant Attachment… The Nauseating Game of Push and Pull · 1 h 6 min · Episode 21For anyone who has ever been in a relationship where you constantly feel insecure, and the more you express it, the more they pull way. Or, if you’re in a relationship where you…
- Episode 20: By The Things Which He Suffered · 49 min · Episode 20After a month of going through some pretty tough stuff, I talk about the fruits of the process. One resource I discuss is a powerful way to help heal your mind, and another is an…
- Episode 19: Toxic Perfectionism - When have I done enough? · 55 min · Episode 19In this episode I discuss how the pursuit of perfection can be very detrimental to your health as well as the circumstances that sent me on that path. How I’m learning to have…
- Episode 18: Comparison is the Thief of Joy · 51 min · Episode 18I have lived in 7 states and worked in several others. Utah is , BY FAR, the most competitive state I have ever lived in. In this episode I talk about the devastating effects…
- Episode 17: Mark Minor - From Prison To Peace · 1 h 8 min · Episode 17In this episode, I sit down with my great friend and mentor, Mark Minor. Mark talks about at a very early how his parents marital problems led to a terrible struggle with…
- Episode 16: How Healing My Gut Healed My Mind · 56 min · Season 1 Episode 16In this episode I talk about a 5 year process where I spent over $100,000 Trying to figure out and heal my body. I dealt with 20 years of Chronic constipation, numerous food…







