Ep 438 Faith, Addiction Recovery, and Rebuilding a Blended Family w/Darryl and Tracy Strawberry

Ep 438 Faith, Addiction Recovery, and Rebuilding a Blended Family w/Darryl and Tracy Strawberry

From Marriage Therapy Radio by MTR

August 18, 2026 · 50 min

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Zach interviews Darryl and Tracy Strawberry about their experiences with faith, addiction recovery, and navigating a blended family.

Zach sits down with baseball legend Darryl Strawberry and his wife Tracy for a conversation that has almost nothing to do with baseball. Both are on their third marriage. Both are in long term recovery, Darryl more than two decades sober, Tracy twenty five years clean. And both point to the same turning point in their story: faith. Zach wants to know what actually sits underneath a phrase couples say so easily, Christ is at the center of our marriage , especially since, as he points out, scripture itself says very little about marriage directly. What follows is unusually candid. Darryl and Tracy talk about the difference between humility and humiliation, and why fighting dirty means trying to shame your partner instead of solving the problem with them. Tracy describes watching Darryl in active addiction and reaching the point where loving him didn't mean rescuing him anymore, a moment she names plainly: he was too painful to love, not unworthy of it. Darryl traces his own turning point back further than the drugs, to the rejection of his father and the bitterness he carried underneath the addiction itself. And Tracy explains how she knew his recovery was real, not because he said…

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Host: Zach

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