Recovery Daily Podcast
1) Willing to Change: Noticing Our Hidden Character Defects
Change starts with willingness to let go of what no longer serves who we’re becoming. My character defects are hidden in plain sight, showing up whenever I am disturbed, frustrated, stressed, or hurt....Show More
2) Tripping Over the Past: Escape the Thinking Spiral
My obsessive thinking can either defeat me or drive me. My overactive empathizer has been feeling like a burden and handicap lately. After hearing terrible news my thoughts spiral into a very dark pla...Show More
3) Belonging: A Journey Out of Isolation
Feeling isolated has been a thread running through my life. Upon reflection in early sobriety, I believed I was choosing isolation, but I realized this morning that I had felt isolated by the world, a...Show More
4) The Ping-Pong Effect: Lesson’s Learned About Emotional Urges
Today I went to a virtual workshop held by the Serenity House of Leesburg. It was called “Surfing the Wave: How to manage urges and strong emotions in recovery.” I focused on my emotional urges. The w...Show More
5) The Ability To Grieve: Mourning Vs. Grieving
For most of my life, I mourned the loss of a friend who died in a motorcycle accident the year I graduated high school. I thought I was grieving, but I was stuck in the shadows of that loss for a very...Show More
6) Savoring Stillness: The Beauty in Moving Slowly
Slowing down has been a gift of my stroke recovery, and I learned it through sobriety. I used to move so fast that I never noticed much around me other than that which I was trying to change. I miss m...Show More
7) Wide Awake: Spiritual Awakening In Progress
A spiritual awakening sounded a bit over the top to me when I heard folks talk about it in meetings. I didn’t really understand spirituality much less what an awakening was. But I’m sure I’m experienc...Show More
8) Emotions Ignite Change: Desperation, Fear, and Hope
Logic didn’t get me sober or compel me to make major changes in my life. I knew alcohol was destroying me long before I stopped drinking, but that knowledge wasn’t enough. I had to feel desperate. Eve...Show More
9) Honesty Starts Within: Motives, Fears, and Excuses
I thought honesty was just not lying to other people, but I’ve learned that it starts within. When I got sober, I could see the hiding and breaking promises, but I couldn’t see the lies I was telling ...Show More
10) Everything Is OK Right Now: Finding Peace in the Present
When I live in the present, life is simpler with less chaos, less noise, and less drama. In sobriety, that serenity comes from acceptance, willingness, and facing my fears. It’s doing the next right t...Show More