RECO12

Dr. Judi Hollis has been an addiction pioneer since 1969 when under Mayor Lindsay’s Addiction Services Agency, she helped develop the first therapeutic communities in New York City. Using her countless books, workbooks, recorded lectures, and pamphlets she has been a tireless campaigner on national and local TV and radio broadcasts training professionals and aiding families throughout the world. A...

Joan is from Western Canada and has been engaged in recovery from anorexia since 1983. She was one of the pioneering members of ABA in 1993. Her sobriety date July 13, 2002.  She speaks to us today on the unique definition of the drug and of sobriety in ABA - Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous.  Reco12 is all about exploring the common threads of addiction and sharing tools and hope from those on a...

Karen A from Israel and  Doug L from South Africa talk about how helping others is the foundation stone in recovery  iin this Reco12 Afro-Euro Speaker Meeting and share their experience, strength, and hope.   Here is a little about Doug L Doug L, a recovering addict, entered Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) in 2013 to address my severe drug and alcohol addiction. It took Doug slightly over a year to achi...

“I should, they should, the world should”! is how Beth started her email to me.  She says she can live life ‘should-ing’ all over the place where she starts objecting to reality  - and reality only wins 100% of the time. Blaming others for the way she feels, playing the victim, complaining, diving into self-pity or using anger to manipulate people to act right can easily be her emotional (im)matur...

Andy T,  from Australia, had a spiritual awakening (as a result of discovering meditation) 34 years ago. It enabled him to put down alcohol and other drugs. However, he had a sex addiction that progressed up till he joined 12-Step S fellowships 14 years ago. He now also does Adult Children of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families.  Today he shares with us the process of rebuilding from the rubbl...

Karen A and  Purdy talk about Purdy finding his spiritual home in the rooms of recovery  iin this Reco12 Afro-Euro Speaker Meeting and share their experience, strength, and hope.   Purdy just spoke in the original Reco12 earlier this week and we are happy to have him on a second time.  His message is one that does not get tired. Reco12 Afro-Euro Timezone is a Reco12 Resource in and for the Afro-Eu...

Purdy is a Recovered Addict, The Obsession to Drink & Use has been lifted through a 12 Step Programme of Action. Action Heals the soul. His Peace with God fires up his Soul and he is All In. Purdy is an Active Sponsor at all times. He does Service and is the Founder of Spiritual Cartel, A meeting in the UK which runs 365 Days a Year. Purdy is Very Grateful and Humbled by it all. He has a Peace...

Karen A, Nadia J,  and Kirsty W are continuing this special series for The Family Afterward as a group of mothers who are living in recovery.  They will go through the Steps of Recovery from the perspective of mothers and families. Their topic of discussion in this episode will be the experience of working and living Step 2 as mothers in recovery. Reco12 Afro-Euro Timezone is a Reco12 Resource in...

Thierry was promised…that permanent recovery is achievable if he does exactly what it says in “how it works, into action, in trying to help others, and being a demonstration of the principles in all of his affairs”. Thierry testifies that his experience validates that promise.  In this meeting Thierry shares an energetic and powerful message on how the spiritual life is not just a theory.  Reco12...

Karen A and  Chris D help us understand the meaning of the word "trudge" as they walk  through this Reco12 Afro-Euro Speaker Meeting and share their experience, strength, and hope.  Young's topic is "Keeping it Simple"  Here is a little about Skye.  Skye is 15 months sober in AA and is also doing steps now in OA after 49 years of an unmanageable life.  She shares her walk...

In today's meeting we did things a bit differently.  We opened up the floor to anyone who wanted to share for 4-5 minutes on a miracle they have experienced in recovery or a promise fulfilled in recovery in 2023.  We had 12 shares in the hour meeting and they all brought experience, strength, and hope. Reco12 is all about exploring the common threads of addiction and sharing tools and hope fr...

Gratitude [gra - ti - tude] noun. The positive state of being grateful; an overwhelming, feeling of appreciation and thankfulness and the desire to return kindness to others. Ensley G. connects with Reco12’s Guest Host Evarleigh S. on episode 211 on the subject of Gratitude. There’s an in-depth open, honest, willing dialogue exploring gratitude - of course, they couldn’t take themselves too seriou...

Karen A, Nadia J,  and Kirsty W are continuing this special series for The Family Afterward as a group of mothers who are living in recovery.  They will go through the Steps of Recovery from the perspective of mothers and families. Their topic of discussion in this episode will be the experience of working and living Step 1 as mothers in recovery. Reco12 Afro-Euro Timezone is a brand NEW Reco12 Re...

Karen A and  Tom S walk and sing through this Reco12 Afro-Euro Speaker Meeting and share their experience, strength, and hope.  Tom's topic is "The Spirituality of the Twelve Steps"  Here is a little about Tom.  By the Grace of a loving God of his own understanding, Tom S is sober, alive and grateful; recovering one day at a time from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body. Hav...

Dennis T comes to us from Alaska. His sobriety date is July 29, 2014. He suffered from sexholism, drugs and alcohol abuse for more that 45 years as a way to find freedom from the pain of early childhood sexual abuse. By the Grace of his Higher Power he is living free one day at a time, through working and practicing the spiritual principles he found in the program of recovery. His hope is that in...

Karen A and  Skye walk through this Reco12 Afro-Euro Speaker Meeting and share their experience, strength, and hope.  Young's topic is "Keeping it Simple"  Here is a little about Skye.  Skye is 15 months sober in AA and is also doing steps now in OA after 49 years of an unmanageable life.  She shares her walk through poetry and music in her recovery process.   Reco12 Afro-Euro Timez...

Melissa M. is a mother of 5, a spouse to a sex and food addict and is a recovering codependent. She found herself in the rooms of recovery with her husband starting in 2009, but only found herself in the rooms for her own personal healing and recovery in 2021 and has benefited greatly in her healing journey. Melissa is a talented carpenter and a home editor who enjoys blessing others with home org...

Karen A, Nadia J,  and Kirsty W did a pop-up panel for this Reco12 Afro-Euro Speaker Meeting and share their experience, strength, and hope.  Their topic of discussion comes from the chapter of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous entitled The Family Afterward.  These 3 "mommies" in recovery discuss what the family afterward can look like.  Reco12 Afro-Euro Timezone is a brand NEW Reco12...

For the 204th meeting of Reco12 Speaker Meeting, we hear from a first timer at Reco12, Paige F.  Paige's sobriety date is November 17th, 2009, and since then she has fallen in love with the book Alcoholics Anonymous, the process of recovery it contains and the solution found as the result. She has a passion and enthusiasm for helping others to recover and sharing the book. You will not be dis...

Karen A and  Young L walk through this Reco12 Afro-Euro Speaker Meeting and share their experience, strength, and hope.  Young's topic is "Seeking Escape with the Desperation of a Drowning Man."  Here is a little about Young:  Young found the 12 step rooms in 2010 after losing everything due to his daily heroin, crack and alcohol addiction. He didn't take any of the 12 steps an...

In the Thanksgiving replay of this POWERFUL meeting, Matt D shares on how he eventually became grateful that he is married to a sexaholic woman.  Here is a little about Matt D: Matt's wife's sexaholism brought him to the S-Anon fellowship in December 2021 as a homicidal, suicidal lost cause. After a slow start, he learned through the principles of the 12 steps and the tools of S-Anon to...

Episode 200!!!!! Michael has been in a variety of 12 Step fellowships over the last 10 years. His primary fellowship is AA, even though he is not an alcoholic-He will explain. Currently, he is most active in SLAA and CODA.  Michael's favorite topic to talk on is Emotional Sobriety but in this meeting he will talk about his experience sober dating.  He has been practing as a licensed psychothe...

Karen A and  Nicola B walk through this Reco12 Afro-Euro Speaker Meeting and share their experience, strength, and hope.  Nicola's topic is Happy, Joyous, and Free in a 12 Step Program."  Here is a little about Nicola:  Nicola B, from Manchester England. Present mother and member of CA and founding member of the all fellowship group ‘Pass It On, Bills Way’. Being inspired by the direct q...

Nikki M found her way into the rooms in 2012 and has never left. The first few years were spent dying in the diluted message. Finally, after four years she was approach by a fellow with a real answer and a Big Book.  Since that day her program of recovery has been fueled by the Grace of God, the Power of 12 Steps, sponsorship and the fellowship of all recovery rooms. Nikki's story is one of t...

Babe K was separated from alcohol on March 2, 2002. His initial experience with the fellowship was unspectacular but he immediately fell in love with the Big Book. Through the process and discipline of the twelve steps,he has been given a life of useful joy beyond his wildest dreams. Reco12 is an organization with the mission of learning and sharing the similarities of addiction of all kinds and g...