RECO12

Trace B is from Australia and is member of Overeaters Anonymous. In Trace's own words: I came into OA almost 2 years ago after battling with weight my whole life. I was looking for a solution for a weight issue and 12 step recovery has taught me that I have a life problem and I use food and compulsive behaviour as the solution! These days I am so grateful to be a compulsive eater and food add...

David is from Manchester UK and is a Compulsive Gamber, Cocaine Addict married for 21 years with 3 children. He is a business owner who fell into the darkness of gambling which brought to him to his knees for the first time age 35, in 2005. While a member of GA, he never embarked on the 12 steps in the GA fellowship. He only went to meetings and never worked with a sponsor. His las bet was in 14th...

Nadia is a self-described "absolute Book Nerd" who stays close to God and performs His work well. Nadia owes her life to Alcoholics Anonymous, intensive sponsorship, and the magic of the 12 steps. A meeting-maker who could not and would not accept the simple solution offered to us and when she finally did, she got to witness an age of miracles and she got to re-create her life.  Nadia sh...

"...This sometimes nearly drove me back to drink, but I soon found that when all other measures failed, work with another alcoholic would save the day."  (Alcoholics Anonymous Pg 15).  You Reco12 Spearheads... You saved the day again!  A HUGE thanks to Ela, Margarita, Terese, and Stephan who jumped in with some amazing shares as we shared about service and working with others.  You reall...

In 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 love God, his wife, his chi...

Evarleigh S. found her way into the virtual rooms of recovery April 2022, her first experience was through Adult Children of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families. Seeking help for those around her that had done harm to her -pointing the finger at all others. Little did Evarleigh know that this one decision; to start her on a journey by connecting with a fellow, round the globe in Sweden, was ju...

Dr. Andrew J. Bauman is a licensed mental health counselor with a Doctorate of Arts in Counseling Psychology from The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology. Andrew is the author of How Not to Be an *SS, The Sexually Healthy Man, Floating Away, Stumbling Toward Wholeness, The Psychology of Porn, and (with his wife Dr. Christy Bauman) A Brave Lament book and award-winning film .  He is also th...

You Reco12 Spearheads... This meeting did not go at all as planned, but it went WAY better than we could have imagined.  A HUGE thanks to Anja, Ela, and Kelly who jumped in with some amazing shares as we put the concept of Acceptance and Step 3 into practice.  What a miracle.  Not what I planned, but it was what God knew and had a plan for it.  Enjoy! Reco12 is an organization with the mission of...

Tori H is an addict, recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and a precious child of God. She is an active 12 step member of various fellowships since 2016 & now focused mainly on the Big Book of AA.  Tori is excited to share her experience, strength, and hope with us on the topic of trusting and relying on God. Reco12 Afro-Euro Timezone is a brand NEW Reco12 Resource in and for the...

Rachel W is a grateful member of SLAA and Al-Anon. She is celebrating 5 years of sobriety in SLAA this month and 14 years in Al-Anon next month, thanks to sponsorship, meetings and the steps. God's will for her is to grow spiritually and to be happy, joyous and free. In service of this, she practices Authentic Relating and overcomes herself daily using 2-way prayer and meditation. Rachel espe...

Gary was born and raised on Long Island and struggled with alcoholism since his early teens which took him to places he never wants to go again. Arrested at 16 for assaulting a police officer, multiple arrests over the following several years, was few blocks north of the WTC on 9/11, AWOL from his first real job on Wall Street in 2002, rebab and back out and until he was given the gift of sobriety...

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 fuelled by the Grace of God, the Power of 12 Steps, sponsorship and the fellowship of all recovery rooms. Nikki's story is one of...

Justin B is a sex addict and a food addict living in the miracle of recovery. Justin's passion lies in sharing and learning about the commonalities and successful recovery strategies for all types of addictions. Drawing from his personal experience, he has found that the power of the 12 Steps, as outlined in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous and adapted to many other fellowships, has been...

Josh is a grateful sex addict working his recovery.  He has been sober since June 19, 2014.  He found recovery in the synergistic relationship between therapy and 12 steps.  As well as the grace and forgiveness he received from his wife and his God.  He started attending SA for 2 years and then was introduced to SAL and has been attending SAL 12 Step for over 7 years.  As part of his recovery jour...

Amanda B came into the rooms of SLAA at the end of June 2022 but quickly found her way to Big Book Sponsorship and jumped straight into the steps with her sponsor. She has found the solution to all her problems by following the instructions that are offered in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous.  Amanda B loves hearing the stories of others in recovery and finds that she can relate to people in...

Sean B came into the rooms of AA on May 22nd, 2019 after coming to the realization that he was unable to regulate his emotional state without a drink. He quickly recognized there was a large gap between the expectation of where he thought he would be in life and the reality of where he was. While he was able to stay sober for a year, he half measured the steps and didn’t make much spiritual progre...

Justin B is a multi-disciplinary addict (sex and food), living in the miracle of recovery in the rooms since 2013 and sober since 2015 in sex addiction and 2021 in food addiction.  He is the steward of the Reco12 family of recovery resources and in this share he give some of his story of recovery and a report on Reco12, then, now, and the steps that are next.  In the Q and A portion he answers sev...

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 Christmas eve 2018 and since that moment has thrown himself into a spiritual life and helping others. Young speaks to...

At 33, recovery found Tom obese, isolated, and dependent on welfare and disability payments. Deeply unhappy and ashamed of what he had become, he had no idea he was an addict.  Fifteen years later, healthy, employed, married, and living free from life threatening addiction, he was shown that normal living was not enough to keep from returning to insanity, that for him the spiritual life cannot be...

Hi! I am Anita born and raised in Spokane WA. I was a chef and cook until my disease of alcoholism grew to something I could not handle anymore. Through the years I’ve faced many traumatic events which in turn made my life spiral down fast. In 2018 I got so sick from my alcoholism it nearly killed me. I spent most of the year in and out of the hospital, and still am battling my never ending health...

Irvin S is a recovering addict to lust, who has fallen in love with the results of the steps of AA and SAL. Irvin S is a husband and father of two who finds strength in submitting to his Higher Power.  He shares today on his realization of the power of a growing faith in his recovery journey to this point. Reco12 is an organization with the mission of learning and sharing the similarities of addic...

Karen A. from Jerusalem, Israel is a proud Mommy and member of the Spiritual Gangsters fellowship. Karen had addiction running through her family and lost her baby brother to an accidental morphine overdose when he was just three days out of rehab. In 2014, Karen entered the rooms of OA when her doctor said she had the 4Fs - female, fertile, fat, and forty! She knew that a spiritual approach was t...

Rhyll is a founder and Vice President of SA Lifeline Foundation and a family and community advocate. S.A. Lifeline is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to providing hope, education, and resources related to pornography and sexual addiction recovery and the related betrayal trauma healing. Recognizing the critical importance of working 12-step for long term healing, SA Lifeline also offers SAL 12-st...

Harvey E in Toronto is a 68 year old Orthodox Jew, who, together with his wife, Sharon, have five married children and 20 grandchildren.  He joined SA in January 7th, 2014, on the recommendation of his new therapist.  At the time, his marriage of 36 years was in serious trouble, he had recently been arrested for acting out behaviors going back 40 years, and he was suffering unbearable shame, shunn...

Joseph O. grew up on Long Island, New York. He graduated college with degrees in Psychology & Economics, but he would say his real major was Independent Study in Drugs & Behavior. He made a geographic shift to Los Angeles to get away from his drinking companions & start fresh but still made no real investment in Recovery. In LA he maintained some abstinence over 10 months or so but pic...