RECO12

Sean B came into the rooms of AA on May 22nd, 2019 after coming to the realization that he was unable to regulate his emotional state without a drink. He quickly recognized there was a large gap between the expectation of where he thought he would be in life and the reality of where he was. While he was able to stay sober for a year, he half measured the steps and didn’t make much spiritual progre...

Justin B is a multi-disciplinary addict (sex and food), living in the miracle of recovery in the rooms since 2013 and sober since 2015 in sex addiction and 2021 in food addiction.  He is the steward of the Reco12 family of recovery resources and in this share he give some of his story of recovery and a report on Reco12, then, now, and the steps that are next.  In the Q and A portion he answers sev...

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 and spent the next 8 years in and out of detox units and treatment centers. He was separated from all mind altering substances Christmas eve 2018 and since that moment has thrown himself into a spiritual life and helping others. Young speaks to...

At 33, recovery found Tom obese, isolated, and dependent on welfare and disability payments. Deeply unhappy and ashamed of what he had become, he had no idea he was an addict.  Fifteen years later, healthy, employed, married, and living free from life threatening addiction, he was shown that normal living was not enough to keep from returning to insanity, that for him the spiritual life cannot be...

Hi! I am Anita born and raised in Spokane WA. I was a chef and cook until my disease of alcoholism grew to something I could not handle anymore. Through the years I’ve faced many traumatic events which in turn made my life spiral down fast. In 2018 I got so sick from my alcoholism it nearly killed me. I spent most of the year in and out of the hospital, and still am battling my never ending health...

Irvin S is a recovering addict to lust, who has fallen in love with the results of the steps of AA and SAL. Irvin S is a husband and father of two who finds strength in submitting to his Higher Power.  He shares today on his realization of the power of a growing faith in his recovery journey to this point. Reco12 is an organization with the mission of learning and sharing the similarities of addic...

Karen A. from Jerusalem, Israel is a proud Mommy and member of the Spiritual Gangsters fellowship. Karen had addiction running through her family and lost her baby brother to an accidental morphine overdose when he was just three days out of rehab. In 2014, Karen entered the rooms of OA when her doctor said she had the 4Fs - female, fertile, fat, and forty! She knew that a spiritual approach was t...

Rhyll is a founder and Vice President of SA Lifeline Foundation and a family and community advocate. S.A. Lifeline is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to providing hope, education, and resources related to pornography and sexual addiction recovery and the related betrayal trauma healing. Recognizing the critical importance of working 12-step for long term healing, SA Lifeline also offers SAL 12-st...

Harvey E in Toronto is a 68 year old Orthodox Jew, who, together with his wife, Sharon, have five married children and 20 grandchildren.  He joined SA in January 7th, 2014, on the recommendation of his new therapist.  At the time, his marriage of 36 years was in serious trouble, he had recently been arrested for acting out behaviors going back 40 years, and he was suffering unbearable shame, shunn...

Joseph O. grew up on Long Island, New York. He graduated college with degrees in Psychology & Economics, but he would say his real major was Independent Study in Drugs & Behavior. He made a geographic shift to Los Angeles to get away from his drinking companions & start fresh but still made no real investment in Recovery. In LA he maintained some abstinence over 10 months or so but pic...

Laura is a mom of 4 who started struggling with a pain pill addiction with her last baby. Her struggle got terrible due to an epidural injury. The next 2 years were chaos and a decline that she didn’t even know was possible.  She racked up 5 felonies and jail and  prison time and thousands of dollars in fees and penalties. But her Higher Power, Christ saw her out of her addiction and now she gets...

Sean came into the rooms of AA on May 22nd, 2019 after coming to the realization that he was unable to regulate his emotional state without a drink. He quickly recognized there was a large gap between the expectation of where he thought he would be in life and the reality of where he was. While he was able to stay sober for a year, he half measured the steps and didn’t make much spiritual progress...

Evie has been in CoDA for 35 years and has done service throughout most of that time at every level of the Fellowship in three different CoDA communities and at the world level.  She found CoDA after many years of therapy and other personal development efforts and believes that CoDA and the 12 steps have given her the most important tools she needed to heal her relationships especially with member...

Leila is gratefully thriving and prospering in all of her fellowships. It is through rigorously working the 12 steps that she has found peace, serenity and joy in her life today. The 12 steps have given Leila the community, solution and recipe for living that she never knew she always needed. She has started two SLAA meetings which combined have over 300 joining participants every week. She is pas...

Well...  I did it again... for the second time in 157 meetings.  I forgot to hit record when we started the meeting.  I will keep the summary of things below of what she talked about, and this quick recording is me trying to summarize Anita's share as well as taking responsibility for my error.  As was brought up in the meeting, "We will not regret the past, nor wish to shut the door on...

Lenette came to SLAA back in 2014.  She had gone thru a divorce and her addiction really surfaced shortly after.  How her sex and love addiction shows up is that she feels she must be validated and chosen.  She ripped thru peoples’ lives and hurt many.  Only thinking of herself.  Lenette’s codependency shows up when in a relationship.  This looks like her micromanaging and pretty much giving up he...

Peg O’Connor, Ph. D., is a Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. Her training is in moral philosophy, feminist philosophy, addiction studies, and the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. She believes that philosophy helped her to get and remain sober. Avoiding Alcoholics Anonymous for the first 20 years of her sobriety because of the concept of a “higher power,” she...

Leo came to NA in 2018 and has stayed clean for more than 4 years now. He came to the point when he became sick and tired of being sick and tired. Leo spent a lot of time trying to find the solution, both while using and while staying clean. It ended being a long journey searching for the secret recipe of recovery, some sort of Philosophical Stone. He tried to find the perfect sponsor, perfect boo...

Buddy C. is an author, businessman, father, podcaster, and a spiritual seeker since his early teens. Buddy made remarkable spiritual progress when he started questioning his belief systems when they did not help with his alcohol addiction. Through 12 Step recovery and open-mindedness to spiritual ideas outside of his comfort zone, Buddy has been sober for over 12 years as of this writing.  Buddy r...

Priya P is a grateful addict who identifies as a codependent, Al-anon and SLAA anorexic and joined the rooms almost three years ago.  She has been given a new life through the gift of recovery and is continuously humbled by the journey of fellowship and as more and more is revealed to her in divine timing.  Spiritual principles of Faith, Trust in infinite God over our finite selves and acceptance...

Ian is a recovered alcoholic of the sort described in the book Alcoholics Anonymous. He has an abnormal reaction to alcohol—but much more troublesome is the way he reacts to the absence of alcohol. Ian started drinking when he was a teenage boy, but it was in his 30s that he discovered his “utter inability to leave it alone, no matter how great the necessity or wish.” (p.34) This lack of power was...

Ashley S is a recovered sexaholic/lustaholic and codependent from North Carolina. She found herself emotionally in bondage until she discovered a miracle of healing through the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. By working the 12 Steps as outlined within the Big Book through the power of a loving God and her sponsor’s patient guidance, she recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body....

Dr. Anna Lembke's  latest book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence was an instant New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller and has been translated into 25 languages. It combines the neuroscience of addiction with the wisdom of 12-Step recovery to explore the problem of compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world.  To qualify to receive 1 of 6 free c...

Dave A. from Antigua came into the rooms of AA with the motivation of impressing an ex-girlfriend that he had lost. He quickly realized that he needed recovery for himself and then found the rooms of CODA also. Dave actively works both AA and CODA and has found that he must do both to survive. He will be sharing on the Balancing Action that Listening has become for him in his recovery. Reco12 is a...

Nikki is one of the founding members of the Big Book Sponsorship Group, an online Twelve Steps global recovery network - grown out of the Toronto Wednesday SLAA Big Book Meeting -  also known as Spiritual Gangsters on WhatsApp.  Her program of recovery began by the Grace of God, the Power of 12 Steps and the fellowships of CA, AL-ANON and SLAA. Nikki's story is one of transformation and heali...