Recovery Demystified - Non-Religious Addiction Recovery and Harm Reduction for Queers, Neurodivergent People, and Their Allies

Recovery Resources that actually help, build your own recovery with secret resources you probably never heard of. Addiction recovery community support... incoming! Early discusses their book and podcast list for February, 2025! It is time to bathe your brain in a soup of new information! Searching for addiction recovery community support? You're in the right place   Stash: My Life in Hiding - book...

In today's episode we hear Alison's addiction recovery story. Alison grew up with addiction on both sides of the family. Her mother was not very present in her childhood and her dad was a single parent most of the time. She describes meeting alcohol and becoming "thick as thieves immediately." At the age of 27, and dabbling in her third Dry January, she wonders if there's more to life than this. S...

In today's episode we hear TK's addiction recovery story. TK spent their high school years as a sober person, then began drinking at the age of 19, and rolled their car by the age of 21. After drunkenly signing up for the army, their partner became pregnant, and their whole world started to change. TK demonstrates that for most of us the path of recovery is not linear. It consists of trials, fuck-...

Recovery Resources that actually help, build your own recovery with secret resources you probably never heard of. Addiction recovery community support... incoming! Disclaimer: Recovery Demystified is intentionally and explicitly non-religious. This episode mentions that practices of mindfulness and meditation can be traced historically back to several Eastern spiritual traditions. The episode also...

In this episode we hear Sara's addiction recovery story. Her life starts with being raised in a party environment, picking up cigarette butts at the age of 7, and using alcohol and every drug under the sun before graduating high school. After a series of awful relationships and worsening addiction to drugs and alcohol, Sara's life imploded and she ended up stuck in the psych ward. After she got ou...

Recovery Resources that actually help, build your own recovery with secret resources you probably never heard of. Addiction recovery community support... incoming! Dry January is HERE! It is time to unbrainwash yourself, or, rebrainwash yourself? It is time to bathe your brain in a soup of new information! In this episode Early shares their Dry January reading and podcast list for 2025 and a coupl...

In the first ever Recovery Demystified interview, we hear Logan's miraculous addiction recovery story. He is a welder and musician who has been sober for 4 1/2 years. Logan's journey starts as experimentation with alcohol and weed in his teens and evolves to using anything and everything to squelch anxiety and depression. He got sober during covid and has never looked back.

Recovery Resources that actually help, build your own recovery with secret resources you probably never heard of. Addiction recovery community support... incoming! If you ever want to experience the full complexity of what life has to offer, it is time to let go of the car door handle and walk into the house. You will experience discomfort but you will also experience a greater joy and depth than...

Welcome to Recovery Demystified! You are in the right place! RD is self help and addiction recovery for the rest of us. If you have ever felt alone, left behind, or pushed to the fringes of society, we love you and you belong here. RD is non-religious and adaptive to you and your own unique inner wisdom and needs. RD is LGBTQ+ friendly, disability friendly, and neurodivergent friendly. We believe...