Spirit of Recovery

The Recovery Church is a unique community that draws from two powerful spiritual traditions—the 12-step program and Christianity—seeking to embody the spirit of God without creating boundaries for its expression. Rev. Dr. Jo Campe shares how this ministry provides nurturing spiritual community for people in search of growth, healing and recovery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...

The circumstances of our lives hold us down until we find the spiritual power within us. Guest Paul Wedding, author of If You Only Knew What You Already Know was homeless, jobless, and powerless over the disease of addiction. Eight years ago on April 19, 2003, he had a profound spiritual experience that set him on a path of recovery, service and fulfillment of his soul purpose. Learn more about yo...

Families affected by addiction can break the chain of pain and choose to create a legacy of love. Janet L. tells how life can be different when multiple family members enter recovery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recovery means learning to love again—or maybe for the first time. Healing the past, learning to respect self and others, having the courage to give and receive—these are the tools that build good relationships. Guest Richard C., recovering person and blogger, shares his quest to reset to love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Spirituality is a powerful change agent. Treatment program director Tony Krall believes it is the key component in recovery. Only spirituality creates a lasting positive shift in relationships—all the way from family dynamics to productive political involvement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Does being in recovery mean that you have to forever define yourself as "sick?" What does well-being look like? Guest Kevin F. explores the paradoxes of being a recovering person. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special guest Billye, author, speaker and spiritual teacher, shares the wisdom of 40 years of family recovery. By putting her serenity first, she was able to detach with love during the active alcoholism in her family. Now with many years of living with family sobriety, she generously speaks about how the tools of recovery keep transforming her life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...

Improving conscious contact with spiritual power as we understand it is the foundation of recovery. But how do we do it? There are as many ways as there are people. Guest Charles G. shares his deep commitment to and enthusiasm for his relationship to God. He tells us why that connection is so important, what it means to his recovery, how he gets through the dark nights of the soul, and how he keep...

Women in recovery have a unique kind of courage. In this episode, guest Sandra M. talks about those special challenges and the rich rewards that come from facing them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The disease of addiction shuts the door to full living, while the genuine welcoming love found in recovery opens the door to all the good we can hold. For Unity minister and recovering person Joe S., life is rich today. Join us as Joe shares how love brought him into recovery and keeps guiding him with the wisdom of the heart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To recover means to get back something previously lost, to reclaim what is useful, to find the essence of who we are, and connect that with life around us. Bishop John Shelby Spong is a visionary thinker who articulates a spirituality of wholeness—one that engages life in ways that express integrity, love and equality. He opens doors to powerful new ways of understanding and relating with Spirit’s...

Recovery is all about finding and expressing your talents, love, and creativity—being of service by being you. Guest Gracie Vandiver shares how she does just that. In addition to conversation, we’ll hear music from Gracie’s Trail of Light CD. Gracie is a songwriter, singer, founder of Sunlight of the Spirit Music, host of SoberCafe Podcast, and winner of a New Thought Music Posi Award and two Ente...

Addiction creates the dead end of fear and “no choice.” Recovery creates the opening to love and constructive options. What’s the catalyst for this transformation? Putting spiritual principles into practical action—every day. Guest Chad W., professional addictions counselor and a person in long-term recovery, knows what it takes and tells it like it is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

How we view God matters! My guest Lee L., a recovering family member, is a gutsy lady who has never been content with a secondhand God. A forward thinker who dares to let her spirituality keep evolving, Lee has lots to say about looking for and finding a Higher Power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recovery is a launching pad to life—not a place to hide out. The disease of addiction isolates us. Recovery gives us the courage to connect. My guest Richard Curtis believes the true purpose of the 12 Steps is the fulfillment of our spiritual potential—which includes paying it forward in love and service. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Families—you gotta love ‘em! Or do you? Better yet—how do you, especially at the holidays! Spirit of Recovery guest Dr. Fran Williams, clinician and educator, knows a thing or two about love—what it is and what it isn’t. She helps recovering people create healthier, more authentic and caring family relationships. Fran’s wisdom, delivered with warmth and humor, opens the doors of the heart. Learn m...

Recovery changes everything—or does it? Jeff K. is a busy guy. He was that way before recovery, and he’s still that way today. Some of his many roles are consultant to nonprofits, vocal artist, actor, artistic director of a musical theater company, music director, auctioneer extraordinaire, businessman and politician. And in the midst of all that, he puts recovery first—including being of service....

Good happens when we put Spirit into action—or when Spirit puts us into action! Guest Mark Burchell’s focus was getting his business back on track, but God had other plans. In 2003, Mark opened his first transitional home, where people could live and share recovery in a sober environment. This was the beginning of “The Doorway to Recovery,” a program that supports recovering people rebuilding thei...

The philosophy of recovery for today’s guest, Jody K., is “If you work it, it’s work. If you live it, it’s life.” Living recovery means a dynamic family life based in communication, accountability, respect and love. Living recovery means knowing that “pain healed becomes the power and grace to help others.” Join me for a lively conversation with Jody K.—a joyful spirit with 27 years of living reco...

What if human self-centeredness is not “bad” but rather an earlier stage of development? What if humans are now evolving into our next stage—oneness, the ability to live Divine Love? Can the12 Steps, traditionally associated with addiction recovery, be used by anyone as an evolutionary path to love? Join me and my guest Barry Vennard, Unity minister and author of Stepping Through the Narrow Gate:...

Does recovery from addiction include taking good care of your brain? Today’s scientific research validates what founders of the modern recovery movement knew through observation—the disease of addiction has a strong physical component. My guest Dr. Suka Chapel, director of ARISE Treatment Center, combines nutritional therapy, energy work, and lifestyle changes with traditional 12-step and psycholo...

Everyone who cares about a person with the disease of addiction is affected by it. Addiction impacts the person’s family, friends, workplace and yes—even their spiritual community. It is a disease of relationships where chaos reigns and conscious contact with Spirit is squeezed out. Join me and special guest Unity minister Peggy K., who for the past 34 years has worked her own powerful program of...

Recovery is so much more than sobriety alone or coping with a loved one’s addictive disease. That’s where it begins—but ultimately recovery is about learning to live! My guest today is Mel B., a recovering alcoholic with over 60 years of sobriety and a lifelong student of metaphysics and spirituality. Mel wrote the meditation book Walk in Dry Places to help recovering people learn to live life on...

A spiritual awakening that leads to continuing spiritual growth is the purpose of the 12 Steps. Integrating 12-Step principles with a personal spiritual path can increase our ability “to practice these principles in all our affairs.” My guest Albert W., longtime recovering person and Unity minister, will discuss how metaphysical spiritual principles deepen his recovery and his ministry. He’ll also...

Most people enter recovery out of sheer desperation—ready to try something, anything, to stop their downhill slide. Few realize in the beginning that they are opening their lives to so much more than putting the brakes on destruction. Coming into recovery is setting feet, heart, mind and soul on the path of pilgrimage—a journey to a holy place within one’s own life. Anna’s guest Nic K., addictions...