12 Steps & 12 Questions

In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. In this episode Eric speaks of his need to be attractive and lovable from an early age, reveals his experience of being married to a sex addict and explains how it is possible to be a scientist and a man of God at the same time. New episodes drop every second Wedne...

In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. In this episode Tony explains that "the Al anon is addicted to the alcoholic in their lives", speaks candidly about the emotional bottom which led him to Al Anon and speaks glowingly about his 29 years in recovery. New episodes drop every second Wednesday! - Silvio...

In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. In this episode Steve reveals in detail the meaning of the "dream world of the gambler",  his struggle with dual addictions - gambling and cocaine - and explains why he works a strict programme even after 29 years of abstinence and 25 years of sobriety.  New episod...

In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. In this episode Gina speaks candidly about her efforts to control the alcoholic in her life, the emotional bottoms that led her to the rooms of Al Anon and ACA and how she can be loving to addicts today. New episodes drop every second Wednesday! - Silvio D 12steps1...

In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. In this episode Christopher speaks candidly about being bi-polar and how drugs influenced his mental health, recalls his struggles with the word God when he came into CA and jokes about CA being “the worst cult in the world”. New episodes drop every second Wednesda...

In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. In this episode Jill recalls the cycles of putting on weight and losing it again, hating the way her body felt when she was overweight and how she stopped being a slave to food in OA. New episodes drop every second Wednesday! - Silvio D 12steps12questions@gmail.com...

In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. In this episode Fabrizio recalls growing up gay in 1980s Rome. various ill-fated attempts at getting sober before finding the rooms and shares how he has learnt that his thoughts are just thoughts and not the truth. New episodes drop every second Wednesday! - Silvi...

In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. In this episode Jaynie describes making the conscious decision "to use drugs for the rest of her life", how domestic violence played into her addiction and that she has now found forgiveness through recovery. New episodes drop on Wednesdays! - Silvio D 12steps12que...

It's the end of season 2 and the pod is taking a break. Season 3 will kick off on 2 April. In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. New episodes drop on Wednesdays! - Silvio D 12steps12questions@gmail.com https://www.cocaineanonymous.org.uk/ https://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk/ https://www.spuk.org.uk...

In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. In this episode Elena describes how her crack addiction fuelled her criminal activities for 18 years "like a mouse in wheel", how all other drugs always led her back to crack, and gives a wonderful definition of true freedom.  New episodes drop on Wednesdays! - Sil...

In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. In this episode Carl recalls drinking to blackout the very first time he touched alcohol as a child, ordering more cocaine while he was going through a heart attack, and speaks of his service for Cocaine Anonymous' European Regional Convention on March 28-30, 2025....

In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. In this episode Karen speaks candidly about the challenges of her childhood,  recalls her rock bottom - a car accident under the influence - and how she's found self-acceptance and love in recovery. New episodes drop on Wednesdays! - Silvio D 12steps12questions@gma...

In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. In this episode Patrick recalls being bullied as a child, countless geographicals in active addiction and reveals how he dealt with a relapse after 24 years in recovery.  New episodes drop on Wednesdays! - Silvio D 12steps12questions@gmail.com 🔈WhatsApp https://ch...

In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. In this episode Sam recalls being her mother's "well-groomed doll" as a child, decades in active addiction and falling to her knees in AA begging for freedom. New episodes drop on Wednesdays! - Silvio D 12steps12questions@gmail.com 🔈WhatsApp https://chat.whatsapp....

In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. In this "tandem episode" with Lisa W, Ted reveals he also suffered sexual abuse as a child, also found vulnerable people and contracted STDs in active addiction, and he shares how recovery has allowed him to build a new and wonderful relationship with his ex-partne...

In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. In this episode Lisa speaks of suffering sexual abuse as a child, remembers being insulted and contracting STDs because of her sexual acting out and revels in having found peace of mind and the many gifts of recovery. New episodes drop on Wednesdays! - Silvio D 12s...

In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. In this second of our double episode with a mother and son in recovery, Ollie speaks of his mother's alcoholism not having a major influence until his teens, recalls the pain of being kicked out by her and affirms that he now realises that it was the best thing she...

In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. In this first of a double episode with a mother and son in recovery, Sue recalls fear keeping her sober through pregnancy, remembers drinking and using with her teenage son and now speaks with delight about their shared recovery journey New episodes drop on Wednesd...

In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. In this episode Luke recalls the painful bullying he endured in childhood, speaks of his isolation in addictive addiction and how he found a Higher Power even though he was "99% atheist and 1% agnostic". New episodes drop on Wednesdays! - Silvio D 12steps12question...

In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. Texas T got sober on a Christmas Day and as fate would have it, this episode is published on a Christmas Day. Join us for a rock and roll episode full of wit and humour, or as Texas T puts it, "I ended up in recovery cos I wouldn't have made a very good bag lady."...

In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. In this episode Sean recalls how he lost a good career to his crack addiction, reveals how he had to move from a "Santa Claus God" to a Higher Power personal to himself and jokes that with almost 34 years he's older in sobriety than Cocaine Anonymous in London. New...

In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. In this episode Kathryn recalls the devastating loss of her father when she was a teenager, speaks of the “addict's logic” of hurting herself with drugs to “get back at her husband” and gives tribute to the Cocaine Anonymous helpline - her first port of call in sur...

In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. In this episode Thierry recalls how drugs and alcohol "filled the hole in his heart" until he suffered a crack induced heart attack, and he shines with Big Book knowledge and being "happy, joyous and free."  New episodes drop on Wednesdays! - Silvio D 12steps12ques...

In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. In this episode Jenny speaks of her childhood conditioning to be a submissive carer, recalls the bitterness and resentment at her alcoholic husband and reveals how Al Anon helped her turn this bitterness into love and compassion. New episodes drop on Wednesdays! -...

In every episode of "12 Steps & 12 Questions" I ask each guest the same twelve questions about their life, addiction and recovery. In this episode Nigel recalls constantly clinging to his mum’s leg as a child, explores grandiosity as a characteristic of the addict and speaks of how men are sabotaged in recovery by their conditioning.  New episodes drop on Wednesdays! - Silvio D 12steps12questi...