RECO12

In today's meeting we did things a bit differently.  We opened up the floor to anyone who wanted to share for 4-5 minutes on a miracle they have experienced in recovery or a promise fulfilled in recovery in 2023.  We had 12 shares in the hour meeting and they all brought experience, strength, and hope. Reco12 is all about exploring the common threads of addiction and sharing tools and hope fr...

Gratitude [gra - ti - tude] noun. The positive state of being grateful; an overwhelming, feeling of appreciation and thankfulness and the desire to return kindness to others. Ensley G. connects with Reco12’s Guest Host Evarleigh S. on episode 211 on the subject of Gratitude. There’s an in-depth open, honest, willing dialogue exploring gratitude - of course, they couldn’t take themselves too seriou...

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 1 as mothers in recovery. Reco12 Afro-Euro Timezone is a brand NEW Reco12 Re...

Karen A and  Tom S walk and sing through this Reco12 Afro-Euro Speaker Meeting and share their experience, strength, and hope.  Tom's topic is "The Spirituality of the Twelve Steps"  Here is a little about Tom.  By the Grace of a loving God of his own understanding, Tom S is sober, alive and grateful; recovering one day at a time from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body. Hav...

Dennis T comes to us from Alaska. His sobriety date is July 29, 2014. He suffered from sexholism, drugs and alcohol abuse for more that 45 years as a way to find freedom from the pain of early childhood sexual abuse. By the Grace of his Higher Power he is living free one day at a time, through working and practicing the spiritual principles he found in the program of recovery. His hope is that in...

Karen A and  Skye 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 through poetry and music in her recovery process.   Reco12 Afro-Euro Timez...

Melissa M. is a mother of 5, a spouse to a sex and food addict and is a recovering codependent. She found herself in the rooms of recovery with her husband starting in 2009, but only found herself in the rooms for her own personal healing and recovery in 2021 and has benefited greatly in her healing journey. Melissa is a talented carpenter and a home editor who enjoys blessing others with home org...

Karen A, Nadia J,  and Kirsty W did a pop-up panel for this Reco12 Afro-Euro Speaker Meeting and share their experience, strength, and hope.  Their topic of discussion comes from the chapter of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous entitled The Family Afterward.  These 3 "mommies" in recovery discuss what the family afterward can look like.  Reco12 Afro-Euro Timezone is a brand NEW Reco12...

For the 204th meeting of Reco12 Speaker Meeting, we hear from a first timer at Reco12, Paige F.  Paige's sobriety date is November 17th, 2009, and since then she has fallen in love with the book Alcoholics Anonymous, the process of recovery it contains and the solution found as the result. She has a passion and enthusiasm for helping others to recover and sharing the book. You will not be dis...

Karen A and  Young L walk through this Reco12 Afro-Euro Speaker Meeting and share their experience, strength, and hope.  Young's topic is "Seeking Escape with the Desperation of a Drowning Man."  Here is a little about Young:  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 an...

In the Thanksgiving replay of this POWERFUL meeting, Matt D shares on how he eventually became grateful that he is married to a sexaholic woman.  Here is a little about Matt D: Matt's wife's sexaholism brought him to the S-Anon fellowship in December 2021 as a homicidal, suicidal lost cause. After a slow start, he learned through the principles of the 12 steps and the tools of S-Anon to...

Episode 200!!!!! Michael has been in a variety of 12 Step fellowships over the last 10 years. His primary fellowship is AA, even though he is not an alcoholic-He will explain. Currently, he is most active in SLAA and CODA.  Michael's favorite topic to talk on is Emotional Sobriety but in this meeting he will talk about his experience sober dating.  He has been practing as a licensed psychothe...

Karen A and  Nicola B walk through this Reco12 Afro-Euro Speaker Meeting and share their experience, strength, and hope.  Nicola's topic is Happy, Joyous, and Free in a 12 Step Program."  Here is a little about Nicola:  Nicola B, from Manchester England. Present mother and member of CA and founding member of the all fellowship group ‘Pass It On, Bills Way’. Being inspired by the direct q...

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...

Babe K was separated from alcohol on March 2, 2002. His initial experience with the fellowship was unspectacular but he immediately fell in love with the Big Book. Through the process and discipline of the twelve steps,he has been given a life of useful joy beyond his wildest dreams. Reco12 is an organization with the mission of learning and sharing the similarities of addiction of all kinds and g...

Karen A and  Rach ❤️ walk through this Reco12 Afro-Euro Speaker Meeting and share their experience, strength, and hope Rach ❤️'s walk in addiction, recovery, and freedom as she shows us that it works, even when feeling Jealousy, Control, and Fear. Reco12 Afro-Euro Timezone is a brand NEW Reco12 Resource in and for the Afro-Euro time zone hosted by Karen A.  We hope that you will join us and d...

Maureen N is a recovered Alcoholic and grateful member of Alanon- She began her journey in 1990 at the age of 20. She grew up in a New England middle class town. From a family of 5, most are in recovery now. She is an Artist, Teacher & Creative Guide - Maureen uses her creativity for healing & transformation in recovery as a way to communicate & listen to her Higher Power’s messages. R...

Terry S. is a 58-year old Detroit native who has been in recovery from  codepenency AND addictive-compulsive shoplifting since 1990.  He founded the 12-Step group C.A.S.A. (Cleptomaniacs And Shoplifters  Anonymous) in Detroit in 1992. He has been a licensed social worker and  certified addictions therapist since 1997 and founded The Shulman Center  for Compulsive Theft, $pending and Hoarding in 20...

Karen A. from Jerusalem, Israel is a proud Mom and member of the Spiritual Gangsters, Noodle with Nikki and Reco12 Family. Karen had addiction running through her family. She lost her baby brother, when he was just three days out of rehab, to an accidental overdose of morphine.  Karen entered the rooms of OA. She knew that a spiritual approach was the only solution to her addiction and all of life...

My name is Richelle from New Jersey. I found 12 step rooms in the year 1999 and got clean on January 18, 2000. I was acting out in love addiction and did not even know it. I found Nikki M and the spiritual gangsters Big Book in October 2020.   Richelle speaks on the hopeless state of an untreated Love Addict.  She shares on what a love addict is and how it is defined.  Reco12 is an organization wi...

Jay M from Bali, Indonesia has been walking on his path through recovery for the last 25 years. He had a transformative spiritual experience that brought him to the awareness of God at an early age, but then fell into the abyss of addiction, in a myriad of forms for decades. When he finally got clean and sober and found his way into the rooms of AA, NA, SLAA and CODA, he began to grow spiritually,...

Karen A and  Joseph O walk through this Reco12 Afro-Euro Speaker Meeting and share their experience, strength, and hope on Joseph's take on Step 3 and pages 61-63 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous.  Joseph shares how he has come to believe in the God of his understanding. Reco12 Afro-Euro Timezone is a brand NEW Reco12 Resource in and for the Afro-Euro time zone hosted by Karen A.  We h...

Timber M. has experience with detoxes, hospitals, treatment centres, building (and crashing) his multiple recovery networks, while always seeking out an authentic life that makes sense for him, being heavily involved in 12 step recovery fellowships; sponsoring and being sponsored in AA, NA, CA as well as SLAA/CODA in Canada and the U.S and most recently DA; his last relationship demise brought him...

Melissa came into the rooms of Alanon 15 years ago to learn how to fix all the dysfunctional, maddening people in her life. Fortunately, when that didn’t work, she stuck around to “fix” herself. She is a member of The Big Book Sponsorship group and sponsors fellows in Coda, Alanon and SLAA. She credits her recovery journey for the beautiful life she has today, and considers it a privilege to share...

Avital J has been clean from drugs and alcohol for over 10 years, she got clean when she was 17 through the rooms of NA. Working the 12 steps and walking hand in hand with her higher power has been top priority for me in living in this world. She believes that it is her job to carry the message to the addict who still suffers and that is what she hopes to do.  In this meeting, Avital shares on how...