The Way Out | A Sobriety and Recovery Podcast

Sometimes in Recovery we have to adapt & overcome unforeseen obstacles that stand in our way; or as the Serenity Prayer elegantly states – Change the things we can. Our recording session for this week’s podcast was stopped before it started when we had a key piece of equipment fail – preventing us from being able to record any audio. For your audio tech nerds out there, it was my trusty and yes ki...

This week we’re covering a seriously under-rated topic in Recovery – Purpose.  We discuss in simple & practical terms what purpose actually is and how we can achieve purpose in our own lives.  Spoiler alert, it doesn’t have to be some over the top or profound higher calling in order for it to be both meaningful and effective in your life.  Plus we take calls from The Way Out Pod...

Gratitude, can indeed be something we can cultivate in our lives with intention and purpose.  Gratitude is a powerful emotion we’ve all hopefully experienced on some level through various points in our lives, but we often think of Gratitude as something that happens to us, as if we don’t have any influence on whether it occurs or not.  Gratitude, rather, can indeed be something we can cu...

We discuss perhaps one of the most important & profoundly impactful topics in Recovery – acceptance as well as it’s yang to the yin – Denial.  Without question a hallmark of active addiction and alcoholism is behavior marked by and rooted in denial.  We explore why denial is so prevalent in active addiction & alcoholism and how acceptance is the true antidote to the many denial m...

Forgiveness in the context of Addiction and Alcoholism recovery is an essential and transformative process which in classic paradoxical fashion actually releases the Forgiver  - providing the crucial freedom from the bondage of often long held and seemingly justifiable resentments.  We provide good working definitions of Forgiveness and it’s inversely connected condition – the state of r...

Emotional sobriety strikes at the very core of what it means to be an addict and alcoholic.  We bring you an engaging and enlightening discussion on what Bill W of Alcoholics Anonymous dubbed the next frontier of AA – Emotional Sobriety.  Emotional sobriety strikes at the very core of what it means to be an addict and alcoholic and what separates simply being sober from being in Recovery...

We’re breaking down perhaps one of the most, if not the most important elements in sustaining meaningful recovery.  The Way Out Podcast is on right now.  Along with my cohosts Jordan and Jason, I’m Charlie and this week we’re breaking down perhaps one of the most, if not the most important elements in sustaining meaningful recovery – the act of Service in Recovery.  The practice of...

This week we’ve got a special interview with a fellow recovery Podcaster John from Sober Speak.  I never cease to be amazed at the power and spiritual truth that comes through each & every recovery journey & John is no exception to this rule.  John’s story is marked by profound turnarounds in the most unlikely situations, especially his relationship with his mother, a woman whom...

We answer crazy important questions like what in the actual EF is this Gift of Desperation? .  I’m Charlie and this week Jason, Alex and I discuss a phenomenon in recovery often referred to as the Gift of Desperation.  We give you a good working definition of what it is and we answer crazy important questions like what in the actual EF is this Gift of Desperation? Why is it even called a...

Chris’s journey to recovery from over-eating and alcoholism was remarkable and will with out any doubt ring true with any one of you whom are struggling with or in recovery from alcoholism and/or addiction.  Chris’s story and his point of surrender is a must listen; and so is his original music which we’ll feature in uninterrupted fashion on this very episode.  Listen Up.

We discuss the spiritual axiom of surrendering to win.  I’m Charlie, and this week my co-host Jason and I are bringing you an incredibly useful and enlightening discussion on Surrender.  More specifically we discuss the spiritual axiom of surrendering to win and how that principle is uniquely applicable to Recovery as well as other aspects of life such as in relationships, work, and even...

The difference between sobriety and serenity.  We’ll learn what serenity means, why it’s important in Sobriety, and what we can do to achieve this seemingly elusive and abstract goal of recovery.  We break down the serenity prayer in an instructive and enlightening way; and discuss the difference between sobriety and serenity.  This week we’re in the enviable position of having lite...

Super Sobriety Topic Terminal Uniqueness. Along with Jason and Alex, I’m Charlie and we’ll be your hosts for this week’s discussion on the Super Sobriety Topic Terminal Uniqueness.  We’ll give you an indispensably valuable definition of what Terminal Uniqueness is, and how it can and does act as a block to meaningful and lasting recovery.  Join Alex, Jason and myself as we share our own...

Along with Jason and Alex, I’m Charlie and we’ll be your hosts as we discuss the Recovery Power Topic, Spirituality in Recovery.  So much of 12-Step recovery and faith based recovery programs involve the concept and actual practice of spirituality as it relates to the individual in Recovery.  We give you a really useful, practical, and working definition of spirituality as well as delive...

The Way Out Podcast is on right now.  I’m Charlie, and this week, along side my co-hosts Jason and Alex we bring you an enlightening conversation on one of the single greatest four letter words in Recovery: hope.  No doubt the vast majority of us whom have battled drug and alcohol addiction can readily identify with the reverse of this Recovery Power Topic, the absence of hope  - ho...

I’m Charlie and today I’m joined by my two new co-hosts Jason and Alex as we have an insightful and practical discussion on fear and recovery. We answer the question burning in every recovering person’s mind – exactly how many times does the word fear appear in the Book Alcoholics Anonymous and furthermore which chapter in the aforementioned text mentions the word fear most often? How did fear man...

This week I’m over the moon to have had the opportunity to have an engaging discussion with Rachel Grant.  Rachel is an expert and survivor -check that – a beyond survivor of sexual abuse and has a powerful message of hope and recovery to share with us.  Many of us in the recovery community have had sexual abuse in our own histories, or know someone who has.  This special episode of...

The Way Out Podcast is on right now.  I’m Charlie, and I’ll be your host for Episode 96 with Annie.  Annie talks candidly and openly about the three addictions she is in recovery from, over-eating, nicotine, and alcohol.  We broach a subject not often spoken of in Recovery circles – Nicotine addiction is real and rather rampant in and around the rooms of recovery.  Annie shares...

I’m Charlie and I’ll be your host for what turned out to be an outstanding interview with this week’s guest, Philip Andrew.  Philip’s story is riddled with hard knock lessons and ripe with a struggle and triumph over tragedy I and many of you know all too well.  Phillip shares his story in an authentic, humorous, and humble manner all the while dropping some serious spiritual truth – you...

I’m Charlie, and I’ll be your host this week as I bring you a powerful set of interviews from all stripes of Recovery who were having an absolute blast at a sober recovery bash.  Listen Up.

I’m Charlie, and I’ll be your host this week as I bring you a powerful interview with Keith Campbell – a person in long term recovery and the founder of the world’s fastest growing online recovering community – Sober & Serious.  Keith shares some serious sober experience, strength, and hope with us, and his message of community and service truly resonates with those of us whom are struggl...

This week I’m absolutely ecstatic about bringing you the Podcasting duo Meagan and Bob from The Addictionary Podcast.  Meagan and Bob are father & daughter and are both persons living in long-term recovery from addiction.  Their recovery stories are both inspiring and instructive, demonstrating through their lived experience, there are many pathways to meaningful and long-term recove...

I’m Charlie and I’ll be your host this week for an amazing interview with Amy LaBossiere.  Amy is an Artist, Wife, Author and a woman in long term Recovery.   Amy and her husband own Still Waters Retreat in Connecticut.  Amy’s story is jam packed with spiritual truth, and her journey to through alcoholism and to recovery through her art is one I deeply connected with.  Amy...

I’m Charlie, and I’ll be your host this week for the second part of our two-part series with my dear friend Raven.  Raven shares how her addiction and alcoholism spiral into what turn out to be untenable extents, witnessing her then partner overdose in front of her six-year-old son and what it finally took for Raven, now seven years sober, to find fulfilling and enduring Recovery.  Liste...

I’m Charlie and I’ll be your host this week as I bring you part one with my dear friend Raven, who shares her story of addiction, alcoholism and recovery in only the way she can.  Raven’s matter of fact, tell it like it is style makes listening to her share on her story ultra listenable as she starts her story as a girl coming of age in Southern California.  A child of divorce, Raven exp...