The Recovery Guy Podcast

“I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.” The post Episode #155 – Tuesday The Fix: Power of Understanding appeared first on Recovery Guy .

We can define our progress by the milestones of life. The post Episode #154 – Friday The Checkup: Recovery Milestones appeared first on Recovery Guy .

Often, building blocks or simple yet, when combined properly can create something more complex. Just like protein, our recovery and new way of living require building blocks. The post Episode #153 – Tuesday The Fix: Building Blocks of Recovery appeared first on Recovery Guy .

Even though it is not realistic of not reaching perfection, shouldn’t be my reason for not striving toward that ideal. I have previously stated, that the higher I realistically raise the bar the more I will accomplish. The post Episode #152 – Friday The Checkup: Grow Instead Of Go appeared first on Recovery Guy .

We can hear what we want to hear or not here thoroughly and end up searching in the wrong place. It is only when we look in the right place that the answer is right in front of us. Zig Ziglar said “Do not mistake activity for accomplishment.” The post Episode #151 – Tuesday The Fix: Not All Searches Net Results appeared first on Recovery Guy .

If there’s anything that I have learned in my recovery it is how I personally identify. I believe that self-talk is the most powerful talk on the planet. The post Episode #150 – Friday The Checkup: Personal Identity Matters appeared first on Recovery Guy .

To be, or not to be? That is the question. The post Episode #149 – Tuesday The Fix: Why DO when you can BE appeared first on Recovery Guy .

I must remain hungry. I must be willing to risk if I am to find reward. Risk does not come without its concern and that is the connection to courage. The post Episode #148 – Friday The Checkup: No Risk No Reward appeared first on Recovery Guy .

We come into recovery and every life-changing opportunity with one common challenge. Regardless of what we are looking to grow in and overcome this one challenge is a constant. This one thing we all must do is “Just Stay”. Since we did not get to our current condition overnight we aren’t going to get to where we want to go overnight. Since there is no quick fix the ability to remain is as powerful...

“I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.” The post Episode #146 – Friday The Checkup: Words to Live By Part 2 appeared first on Recovery Guy .

why is it so many are relapsing or dying before they ever recover? We live this life of self-isolation and despair. You have heard me mention before, “The Hole of No Hope”. Do you know what a rut is? A rut is grave with both ends kicked out. If we don’t get out of it, we die there. The post Episode #145 – Tuesday The Fix: Death by Terminal Uniqueness appeared first on Recovery Guy .

Being teachable is the prerequisite for learning anything. If I am not teachable in an overall perspective or in a specific area I wouldn’t find it necessary to be taught anything. With that, being teachable is to learning what air is to breathing. The post Episode #144 – Friday The Checkup: Are You Teachable appeared first on Recovery Guy .

Not knowing how to live kills more people of addiction then I care to count. The post Episode #143 – Tuesday The Fix: I Don’t Know How to Live appeared first on Recovery Guy .

“If you do what you’re supposed to do when you were supposed to do it, there will come a time when you can do what you want to do when you want to do it.” The post Episode #142 – Friday The Checkup: Fit For a Lifetime appeared first on Recovery Guy .

Before we can ever meet the need we have to know what the need is. The post Episode #141 – Tuesday The Fix: Meet the Need appeared first on Recovery Guy .

A profound notion that has been taught in Alcoholics Anonymous is the notion that sobriety is not enough. The post Episode #140 – Friday The Checkup: The Real Me appeared first on Recovery Guy .

the major difference between a person who is addicted to a substance and one who isn’t is that the non-addicted person has found other ways to dealing with life on lives terms. The post Episode #139 – Tuesday The Fix: Normalcy appeared first on Recovery Guy .

Recovery is to get back: REGAIN, to bring back to normal position or condition. RESCUE, to make up for. The post Episode #138 – Friday The Checkup: The Gift that Keeps on Giving appeared first on Recovery Guy .

Are you building your recovery or are you merely stopped drinking, using or engaging in negative behavior? Here is why this question is so important. For many years, you and lived in a negative life of despair we built. If we don’t build a new house/recovery to live in, we stand a good chance of going back to the old house. The post Episode #137 – Tuesday The Fix: When We Build It, It Will C...

Why, then, 'tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison. Well, then it isn't one to you, since nothing is really good or bad in itself—it's all what a person thinks about it. The post Episode #136 – Friday The Checkup: Personal Paradigms appeared first on Recovery Guy .

I have a motto that I have adopted along the way and it is “ sooner is better than later and more is better than less.“ The post Episode #135 – Tuesday The Fix: Right Now appeared first on Recovery Guy .

Prior to my life changing involvement with AA, I was one of the most self-centered people on the planet. I quickly learned that taking and applying the 12 Steps of Recovery would require me to move from Me to We. The post Episode #134 – Friday The Checkup: We Not Me appeared first on Recovery Guy .

Overcoming shame needs to be both immediate and ongoing. It needs to be immediate becauseit will hold us hostage until it causes or death. The post Episode #133 – Tuesday The Fix: We Have Met the Enemy and it is Us appeared first on Recovery Guy .

“If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t have to look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with. There’s no place like home.” The post Episode #132 – Friday The Checkup: Forever Home appeared first on Recovery Guy .

Today’s podcast is from a speaking event on Saturday, August 15, 2020. I was the keynote speaker at the “Old Timers” meeting at the Salt Lake City, Utah Alano Club. I share my story of my personal recovery and my understanding of what the 12 steps of recovery has to offer those willing to work for it. The post Episode #131 – Tuesday The Fix: Salt Lake City Alano Club appeared first on Recove...