RECO12

You will not want to miss this one if you are a married person working your recovery.  John belongs to AA and Recovering Couples Anonymous (RCA). Early in Sobriety, he became a single parent to 3 kids due to his ex-wife's addictions. While AA became a way of life, John found great difficulty applying the principles in his marriage. Although he wasn't drinking he would withdraw under emot...

Silvio is an active member of Cocaine Anonymous, sponsored and sponsoring, he’s been through the steps twice and is coming up to 2.5 years sober, one day at a time. He’s GSR of the "Friendship on Fridays" CA meeting in Covent Garden in London. His favourite prayer is the serenity prayer, and he hosts and publishes the 12-step recovery podcast “12 Steps & 12 Questions”.  Today, Silvio...

A little about Cheryl B in her own words:   I lived years in recovery as a dry drunk, thinking sobriety was my goal and battled with my thinking. Being sober did not mean I was working a 12 Step Program. In the grip of a progressive illness, it got worse, never better, until I finally handed my life over to a Power greater than myself.  Today she speaks on the topic of God is Everything or God is...

Young found the 12 step rooms in 2010 after losing everything due to his daily heroin, crack and alcohol addiction.  He didn't take any of the 12 steps and spent the next 8 years in and out of detox units and treatment centers. He was separated from all mind altering substances Chrismas eve 2018 and since that moment has thrown himself into a spiritual life and helping others. Today, he will...

A little about Rego in his own words:  "But for the Grace of God, A religious boy who had to let go of god to find God. After alcohol beat me down, I found AA, but i resisted, why the pain? I stood on the edges and looked in, Untill i became part of my life changed. Where would i be without AA, Where would i be without Alcoholics Anonymous? The solution outlined in the book Alcoholics Anonymo...

let’s introduce our guest speaker for today, Jeffrey B and give a little background on him in his own words:  I’m a Sober Member of a 12 step fellowship. My Sobriety date is August 16th, 2003. I found freedom from Alcohol, Freedom from Self and Freedom from the delusion that I can wrest satisfaction and happiness out of this world if I only manage well. It seems that when I reach a glorious sobrie...

Karen A and Kirsty W are continuing this special series for The Family Afterward as a group of mothers who are living in recovery.  They will go through the Steps of Recovery from the perspective of mothers and families. Their topic of discussion in this episode will be the experience of working and living Step 4 as mothers in recovery. Reco12 Afro-Euro Timezone is a Reco12 Resource in and for the...

Nikki M found her way into the rooms in 2012 and has never left. The first few years were spent dying in the diluted message. Finally, after four years she was approach by a fellow with a real answer and a Big Book.  Since that day her program of recovery has been fueled by the Grace of God, the Power of 12 Steps, sponsorship and the fellowship of all recovery rooms. Nikki's story is one of t...

Ashley S from North Carolina is grateful to be a recovered sex addict and codependent. She has a deep love for the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous as it is the primary text that enabled her to enter upon a new relationship with her Creator and have a profound spiritual awakening to overcome her sex addiction back in 2021.  However, Ashley found herself hopeless once more as she was stuck in a tox...

Karen A and  Ben K talk about Debting and Vagueness, and the recovery from both in this Reco12 Afro-Euro Speaker Meeting and share their experience, strength, and hope.   Here is a little about Ben K:  Ben K was a disturbed little kid, after discovering program and trying out different fellowships he finally found DA. Five years later, he is solvent, pays his taxes on time (with no resentment), an...

Here is a little about Ralph D.  From being raped by his brother at the age of 15 and groomed by four of his friends from that age until I was almost 18 lead him to many years of resentment, drinking very hard, using drugs and planning on killing the five of them or anyone that looked like them. The planning went on for many years in his head because he was trying to figure out a way of getting aw...

Karen A and  Binyamin H talk about the fact that There IS A Solution in this Reco12 Afro-Euro Speaker Meeting and share their experience, strength, and hope.   Here is a little about Binyamin:  He had a spiritual awakening but he didn't do the step or work a program of recovery. Lost his mind and went insane. Started to work the program and found God's purpose for his life. Reco12 Afro-E...

Chuck started off his sobriety journey, July 9, 2020 after feeling useless to everybody, especially to himself, that’s when he stuck a pistol in his mouth. He drank to black out since he was 13 years old, and at 46, finally hit his bottom. The 12 steps has led him to a God that he has only been able to experience, through working the 12 steps and living them on a daily basis.  Chuck has found usef...

Karen A, Nadia J,  and Kirsty W are continuing this special series for The Family Afterward as a group of mothers who are living in recovery.  They will go through the Steps of Recovery from the perspective of mothers and families. Their topic of discussion in this episode will be the experience of working and living Step 3 as mothers in recovery. Reco12 Afro-Euro Timezone is a Reco12 Resource in...

Karen A talks about her experience with twisted thinking and dealing with depressive thoughts and feelings in this Reco12 Afro-Euro Speaker Meeting and share her experience, strength, and hope.    Reco12 Afro-Euro Timezone is a Reco12 Resource in and for the Afro-Euro time zone hosted by Karen A.  We hope that you will join us and draw strength and hope from these podcasts that we will host every...

Dr. Judi Hollis has been an addiction pioneer since 1969 when under Mayor Lindsay’s Addiction Services Agency, she helped develop the first therapeutic communities in New York City. Using her countless books, workbooks, recorded lectures, and pamphlets she has been a tireless campaigner on national and local TV and radio broadcasts training professionals and aiding families throughout the world. A...

Joan is from Western Canada and has been engaged in recovery from anorexia since 1983. She was one of the pioneering members of ABA in 1993. Her sobriety date July 13, 2002.  She speaks to us today on the unique definition of the drug and of sobriety in ABA - Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous.  Reco12 is all about exploring the common threads of addiction and sharing tools and hope from those on a...

Karen A from Israel and  Doug L from South Africa talk about how helping others is the foundation stone in recovery  iin this Reco12 Afro-Euro Speaker Meeting and share their experience, strength, and hope.   Here is a little about Doug L Doug L, a recovering addict, entered Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) in 2013 to address my severe drug and alcohol addiction. It took Doug slightly over a year to achi...

“I should, they should, the world should”! is how Beth started her email to me.  She says she can live life ‘should-ing’ all over the place where she starts objecting to reality  - and reality only wins 100% of the time. Blaming others for the way she feels, playing the victim, complaining, diving into self-pity or using anger to manipulate people to act right can easily be her emotional (im)matur...

Andy T,  from Australia, had a spiritual awakening (as a result of discovering meditation) 34 years ago. It enabled him to put down alcohol and other drugs. However, he had a sex addiction that progressed up till he joined 12-Step S fellowships 14 years ago. He now also does Adult Children of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families.  Today he shares with us the process of rebuilding from the rubbl...

Karen A and  Purdy talk about Purdy finding his spiritual home in the rooms of recovery  iin this Reco12 Afro-Euro Speaker Meeting and share their experience, strength, and hope.   Purdy just spoke in the original Reco12 earlier this week and we are happy to have him on a second time.  His message is one that does not get tired. Reco12 Afro-Euro Timezone is a Reco12 Resource in and for the Afro-Eu...

Purdy is a Recovered Addict, The Obsession to Drink & Use has been lifted through a 12 Step Programme of Action. Action Heals the soul. His Peace with God fires up his Soul and he is All In. Purdy is an Active Sponsor at all times. He does Service and is the Founder of Spiritual Cartel, A meeting in the UK which runs 365 Days a Year. Purdy is Very Grateful and Humbled by it all. He has a Peace...

Karen A, Nadia J,  and Kirsty W are continuing this special series for The Family Afterward as a group of mothers who are living in recovery.  They will go through the Steps of Recovery from the perspective of mothers and families. Their topic of discussion in this episode will be the experience of working and living Step 2 as mothers in recovery. Reco12 Afro-Euro Timezone is a Reco12 Resource in...

Thierry was promised…that permanent recovery is achievable if he does exactly what it says in “how it works, into action, in trying to help others, and being a demonstration of the principles in all of his affairs”. Thierry testifies that his experience validates that promise.  In this meeting Thierry shares an energetic and powerful message on how the spiritual life is not just a theory.  Reco12...

Karen A and  Chris D help us understand the meaning of the word "trudge" as they walk  through this Reco12 Afro-Euro Speaker Meeting and share their experience, strength, and hope.  Young's topic is "Keeping it Simple"  Here is a little about Skye.  Skye is 15 months sober in AA and is also doing steps now in OA after 49 years of an unmanageable life.  She shares her walk...