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Today, I sit down with Matt Grace, author of God Doesn’t Relapse, for a powerful conversation on addiction recovery, faith, family boundaries, and the spiritual transformation that helped him rebuild his life. Mr. Grace shares his story of becoming addicted at a young age, moving from Ritalin to crystal meth, facing arrests, overdoses, broken relationships, and eventually surrendering to God after years of addiction.

In this episode, Mr. Grace explains why addiction does not only affect the addict—it affects the entire family system. We discuss enablement, tough love, emotional hostage-taking, and why parents sometimes “love their kids to death” by preventing them from facing consequences. I also share from my own experience as the son of addiction, including what it means to forgive, protect, set boundaries, and still hope for someone’s recovery without enabling destructive behavior.

Mr. Grace also opens up about his work in addiction recovery, his experience helping families, and why he wrote God Doesn’t Relapse as both a memoir and a resource for families dealing with alcoholism, drug addiction, failure to launch, and broken family dynamics. We talk about the importance of service, volunteer work, accountability, and learning how to stop living as a victim and start living as a survivor.

This conversation also addresses faith, masculinity, pornography, gambling, young men in crisis, and how society often distorts morality while normalizing destructive behaviors. Mr. Grace shares how prayer, service, and a relationship with God helped him find lasting sobriety, while I connect his story to biblical themes of redemption, purpose, spiritual discipline, and hope beyond addiction.

Whether you are struggling with addiction, loving someone through addiction, recovering from family trauma, or searching for faith-based encouragement, this episode offers practical wisdom and spiritual insight. Mr. Grace’s story is a reminder that recovery is possible, boundaries are necessary, service changes lives, and no one is too far gone for redemption.

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