RECO12

Laura is a mom of 4 who started struggling with a pain pill addiction with her last baby. Her struggle got terrible due to an epidural injury. The next 2 years were chaos and a decline that she didn’t even know was possible.  She racked up 5 felonies and jail and  prison time and thousands of dollars in fees and penalties. But her Higher Power, Christ saw her out of her addiction and now she gets...

Sean 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 progress...

Evie has been in CoDA for 35 years and has done service throughout most of that time at every level of the Fellowship in three different CoDA communities and at the world level.  She found CoDA after many years of therapy and other personal development efforts and believes that CoDA and the 12 steps have given her the most important tools she needed to heal her relationships especially with member...

Leila is gratefully thriving and prospering in all of her fellowships. It is through rigorously working the 12 steps that she has found peace, serenity and joy in her life today. The 12 steps have given Leila the community, solution and recipe for living that she never knew she always needed. She has started two SLAA meetings which combined have over 300 joining participants every week. She is pas...

Well...  I did it again... for the second time in 157 meetings.  I forgot to hit record when we started the meeting.  I will keep the summary of things below of what she talked about, and this quick recording is me trying to summarize Anita's share as well as taking responsibility for my error.  As was brought up in the meeting, "We will not regret the past, nor wish to shut the door on...

Lenette came to SLAA back in 2014.  She had gone thru a divorce and her addiction really surfaced shortly after.  How her sex and love addiction shows up is that she feels she must be validated and chosen.  She ripped thru peoples’ lives and hurt many.  Only thinking of herself.  Lenette’s codependency shows up when in a relationship.  This looks like her micromanaging and pretty much giving up he...

Peg O’Connor, Ph. D., is a Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. Her training is in moral philosophy, feminist philosophy, addiction studies, and the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. She believes that philosophy helped her to get and remain sober. Avoiding Alcoholics Anonymous for the first 20 years of her sobriety because of the concept of a “higher power,” she...

Leo came to NA in 2018 and has stayed clean for more than 4 years now. He came to the point when he became sick and tired of being sick and tired. Leo spent a lot of time trying to find the solution, both while using and while staying clean. It ended being a long journey searching for the secret recipe of recovery, some sort of Philosophical Stone. He tried to find the perfect sponsor, perfect boo...

Buddy C. is an author, businessman, father, podcaster, and a spiritual seeker since his early teens. Buddy made remarkable spiritual progress when he started questioning his belief systems when they did not help with his alcohol addiction. Through 12 Step recovery and open-mindedness to spiritual ideas outside of his comfort zone, Buddy has been sober for over 12 years as of this writing.  Buddy r...

Priya P is a grateful addict who identifies as a codependent, Al-anon and SLAA anorexic and joined the rooms almost three years ago.  She has been given a new life through the gift of recovery and is continuously humbled by the journey of fellowship and as more and more is revealed to her in divine timing.  Spiritual principles of Faith, Trust in infinite God over our finite selves and acceptance...

Ian is a recovered alcoholic of the sort described in the book Alcoholics Anonymous. He has an abnormal reaction to alcohol—but much more troublesome is the way he reacts to the absence of alcohol. Ian started drinking when he was a teenage boy, but it was in his 30s that he discovered his “utter inability to leave it alone, no matter how great the necessity or wish.” (p.34) This lack of power was...

Ashley S is a recovered sexaholic/lustaholic and codependent from North Carolina. She found herself emotionally in bondage until she discovered a miracle of healing through the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. By working the 12 Steps as outlined within the Big Book through the power of a loving God and her sponsor’s patient guidance, she recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body....

Dr. Anna Lembke's  latest book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence was an instant New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller and has been translated into 25 languages. It combines the neuroscience of addiction with the wisdom of 12-Step recovery to explore the problem of compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world.  To qualify to receive 1 of 6 free c...

Dave A. from Antigua came into the rooms of AA with the motivation of impressing an ex-girlfriend that he had lost. He quickly realized that he needed recovery for himself and then found the rooms of CODA also. Dave actively works both AA and CODA and has found that he must do both to survive. He will be sharing on the Balancing Action that Listening has become for him in his recovery. Reco12 is a...

Nikki is one of the founding members of the Big Book Sponsorship Group, an online Twelve Steps global recovery network - grown out of the Toronto Wednesday SLAA Big Book Meeting -  also known as Spiritual Gangsters on WhatsApp.  Her program of recovery began by the Grace of God, the Power of 12 Steps and the fellowships of CA, AL-ANON and SLAA. Nikki's story is one of transformation and heali...

Born in 1971, Tim M from London Stopped drinking for the first time in 1990. His Last drink was in 1993. Tim spends much of his free time engaged in sponsorship and service. He does what AA asks, and he get the results it promises in the book Alcoholics Anonymous. 100,000 Al-Anon meetings also help. Other than that, he says that he is simply another bozo on the bus.   Tim Sponsors a lot and in thi...

Robert first came into recovery February 9, 1986 and met a group of people who would change his life. After a short relapse, Robert came back to recovery on April 25 of 1986 and has been clean and sober ever since. Robert's mission is to become more well and to encourage others along the way.  Robert also hosts The Recovery Guy Podcast and The Recovery Guy online community, and I was blessed...

Just a quick heads up. This, is one of the most powerful conversations I have had thus far in the Journey in Recovery series. I feel that this is a vital episode to share with young men and young women as parents feel it an appropriate age to do so. But this story starts at the age of 12 and is really relatable to many issues of today.  This week we will be talking with Phil about Step 12. Phil’s...

On Reco12 today, we will be talking with Matt D about Step 11 and his journey in recovery based on that step. It is pretty interesting to me that many of the new ideas and practices that I have learned about and that I am putting into place in my own life have to do primarily with Step 11. This is another powerful conversation with some really good insights into Conscious Contact with God. Back in...

On Reco12 we will be talking with Nick, an alcoholic and addict with over 3 years sobriety at the time of this recording, about his experience, strength and hope and his journey in recovery with Step 10. In this conversation we really focus on the importance of being constantly aware and taking minute-by-minute inventory of self and being accountable to self and others in recovery. He shares his “...

In this Reco12, Journey In Recovery series, we will be talking with Wendi F, a sexaholic who also spoke to us in meetings, #4 and #127 . In this conversation we explore her life experience that led her to an eventual awakening. We discuss what it means to find the core of an addiction and how it differs from many of the ancillary or appendages to an addiction. We discuss a new life with a Higher P...

In this Reco12 Episode of the Journey In Recovery series, we will hear from Angie H, who also spoke in previous Reco12 Meetings #10 and #38 , as she shares her experience, strength, and hope on Step 8.  Angie, a lustaholic, sharing her path of addiction and recovery. In this conversation, Angie talks tactfully but completely honestly about the path of destruction that she had unknowingly left in h...

In this journey in recovery, we will be hearing the experience, strength, and hope of Joe C in his living in Step 7 in his life. Now, a heads up on this one. The sound quality is a little rough in spots on this episode. The online recording did not come through great. BUT, the content is amazing. So, please listen past the flaws in the sound and to the beauty of what is being said.  In this conver...

Today we will be hearing the experience, strength, and hope of Father Bill W, who was celebrating his 47th anniversary of sobriety being a guest on this show (He will celebrate 50 years later in December of this year). He shares his own experience, faith and hope and focusing mostly on Step 6.  In this Journey In Recovery, we reflect back on the early history of AA and the practices of Two Way Pra...

Today, we will walk with Jennifer as she shares her experience in addiction and her journey in recovery, starting at about age 14 with alcohol and then moving into marijuana and other drugs and psychedelics in her search for God in her life and also in her quest to numb things from her childhood.  She will share about her experience with Step 5 in this episode. Back in 2019 I was hosting another p...