What is Accountability? and How to find a good Accountability Partner, with Dan Stephens and Orlando Rivera

In recovery work, we often hear this idea of the Accountability Partner, and we generally hear it’s a good idea to have this person in our lives.

But what is an Accountability Partner? Who should this person be(or not be)? What should they do or not do? And if you are seeking the accountability, what is your responsibility in the relationship?

All of this conversation demands that we first define what accountability is in the first place! Is it just a check in? A report of bad behavior? Is it more like the sacrament of confession? Or is it more like peer counseling and emotional support?

We talk about recovery in a general sense, but also talk about recovery from compulsive pornography use, which leads us on a lively discussion around the role of accountability/reporting software in an accountability plan.

Dan Stephens and Orlando Rivera join Rhys for a roundtable discussion on what accountability is and is not, and who makes the ideal accountability partner. We talk about transparency, honesty, and taking responsibility for one’s self. We talk about confession, and community, and how we need each other to succeed in any meaningful way.

We talk about how we need to connect with each other, not just in crisis, but sometimes just because we want to be together. We must do this to normalize being open and connected, which leads to normalizing that we also talk about difficult things with each other.

We leave the listener with a teaser - we hinted at the vitality of relationship repair and conflict resolution in sobriety. We’ll come back to this topic more…sometime soon.

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Rhys can be found at www.newpatterncounseling.com and on instagram at @newpatterncounseling

Dan can be found at dan@danielstephens.com

Orlando can be found at orivera328@gmail.com

The books Orlando mentioned are these…

https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Health-Drug-Alcohol-Treatment/dp/0826120156

https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Health-Recovery-Professional-Counselors/dp/0826120172

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