HammeredRecovery Podcast
Recovery Podcast helping you live your best life Healthy. Happy. Sober.
Episodes
September 24, 2022 • 27 mins
For more information visit HammeredRecovery.com or e-mail me at justin@hammeredrecovery.com
Mark as Played
May 20, 2022 • 35 mins
For more information visit HammeredRecovery.com or e-mail me at justin@hammeredrecovery.com
Listen Notes
The Fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called will power becomes practically nonexistent. We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago. ...
Mark as Played
April 21, 2022 • 30 mins
For more information visit HammeredRecovery.com or e-mail me at justin@hammeredrecovery.com
Show Notes
What is Rock Bottom and why do we feel we have to hit it?You don't have to hit rock bottom. You just have to stop digging!Pink CloudWhat is the pink cloud?Pay offThings happen for a reason. If you stick with this program everything is going to be okay!
Mark as Played
March 24, 2022 • 37 mins
For more information visit HammeredRecovery.com or e-mail me at justin@hammeredrecovery.com
Mark as Played
March 10, 2022 • 34 mins
For more information visit HammeredRecovery.com or e-mail me at justin@hammeredrecovery.com
SHow Notes
At the start of the show I discuss ways listeners can help support the podcastvisit HammeredRecovery.com - Click the Donate tab - Use the Donate button at the bottom of the pageRate the podcast 5 stars and leave a reviewBuy apparel from the Merch shop on the websiteI then continued on with the How It Works series and reall...
Mark as Played
February 28, 2022 • 33 mins
For more information visit HammeredRecovery.com or e-mail me at justin@hammeredrecovery.com
Show Notes
In today's podcast I continue walking through How It Works from the Big BookI discuss how my life is going a year after checking into HazeldenHow quickly time goes by once you have made the decision to stop drinkingThe importance of being picky and putting in the work before you:Pick a sponsorPick a meeting(s)Pick a treatm...
Mark as Played
February 10, 2022 • 34 mins
For more information visit HammeredRecovery.com or e-mail me at justin@hammeredrecovery.com
SHow Notes
Super bowl
I start off the show talking about the upcoming Super bowl and the fact that I was in Hazelden for the Super bowl a year agoI've always made a big deal out of big sports events for my family, so this was a big change for me, but I knew it was what I had to do and it was worth it.; I discussed a line from the ...
Mark as Played
February 3, 2022 • 34 mins
For more information visit HammeredRecovery.com or e-mail me at justin@hammeredrecovery.com
Show Notes:
Dealing with unforeseen circumstances
I start off this weeks podcast talking about getting COVID and how dealing with being sick can be different for alcoholicsHow will you deal with isolation?Going back to the basicsOne day at a time
The Walking Dead
Like many, one of the things I did to help pass the time was bi...
Mark as Played
January 13, 2022 • 37 mins
For more information visit HammeredRecovery.com or e-mail me at justin@hammeredrecovery.com
SHow Notes
The Genisis
Today I start out the podcast recounting that it was one year ago today I checked my self into HazeldenI recount the days leading up to checking in and the process of checking into HazeldenI discuss that Hazelden was my Genesis and where my story beginsI briefly recapped everything I have learned in the first...
Mark as Played
December 23, 2021 • 28 mins
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Show Notes
In todays episode I read from Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol*. I wanted to do an episode that resonates with the Christmas Spirit, and this story fit the bill. If you have heard this story a hundred times, or if this is the first, listening to it from a place of recovery gave it new meaning to me and I hope it does the...
Mark as Played
December 13, 2021 • 44 mins
For more information visit HammeredRecovery.com or e-mail me at justin@hammeredrecovery.com
Show Notes
Nervous about the Holidays
We start off todays podcast discussing an e-mail I received with 7 tips titled Nervous About the Holiday's?
Hatch a holiday escape planRewrite the holiday story in your headStay helpfulBe mindful of what you are drinkingSome triggers and traps are optionalPractice self careConsider rehab ove...
Mark as Played
November 24, 2021 • 37 mins
For more information visit HammeredRecovery.com or e-mail me at justin@hammeredrecovery.com
SHow Notes
In this weeks podcast I start off by recapping my family vacation to AMI and comparing it to a similar trip last year before I quit drinking. Spoiler, this year was much better!We need to git rid of the thought process that when we quite drinking we lost something. It actually is the exact opposite, we gained EVERYTHING!
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Mark as Played
November 10, 2021 • 31 mins
For more information visit HammeredRecovery.com or e-mail me at justin@hammeredrecovery.com
SHow Notes
I recommend reading the Big Book and 12 & 12, but also do some research online.Article by Jason Wahler – Breaking down the steps.Step 8 & 9 Podcast – The Recovery Show – Mary Pearl T.
We take a look backward and try to discover where we have been at fault.We make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done.We co...
Mark as Played
November 2, 2021 • 64 mins
For more information visit HammeredRecovery.com or e-mail me at justin@hammeredrecovery.com
Listen Notes
In this episode we welcome back Kelly Kristo as a co-host to have an open discussion about recovery. Kelly and I are in different stages of our recovery and it was fun to get a new perspective.
We talked about a lot of different subjects, not all recover based, including:
What's happening in the NFL with our favo...
Mark as Played
October 26, 2021 • 36 mins
For more information visit HammeredRecovery.com or e-mail me at justin@hammeredrecovery.com
Listen Notes
Today I started off the show recapping a long weekend with my kids and discussing how quickly they have reverted back to wanting to spend time with me again.
I also discussed an upcoming episode on The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins. I am not quite ready to do a full podcast yet, but I discussed how I am already using t...
Mark as Played
October 13, 2021 • 66 mins
For more information visit HammeredRecovery.com or e-mail me at justin@hammeredrecovery.com
Show notes
In todays podcast I welcomed Quinn to tell his story. I meet Quinn when I was just starting out in recovery. In fact, at that time I hadn't even decided to quit drinking yet. He was in my first IOP group, which I eventually failed out of, so I didn't get to know him all that well early on. In fact, we've only met in per...
Mark as Played
October 7, 2021 • 43 mins
For more information visit HammeredRecovery.com or e-mail me at justin@hammeredrecovery.com
Listen Notes
The social media trap
This weeks podcast starts out with a discussion to be more aware of what makes you happy and what makes you angry.I discuss how I have become more aware of how social media has been affecting my mode in a way I do not like and what my plans are to address it.Why have Twitter likes and podcast beco...
Mark as Played
September 29, 2021 • 38 mins
For more information visit HammeredRecovery.com or e-mail me at justin@hammeredrecovery.com
Show Notes
Today I want to start out the show by speaking directly to those listeners who have found the podcast and are still drinking.
The most important listener is the listener who hasn’t decided to stop yet or just recently has.
The people, that like me 10 mos. ago are in a very dark place and think there is absolutely no w...
Mark as Played
September 22, 2021 • 44 mins
For more information visit HammeredRecovery.com or e-mail me at justin@hammeredrecovery.com
Show Notes:
Joseph Caravelle, MA, LADC – The Disease of Addication
AA Program defines addiction as having three distinct components:The Allergy of the body.Understanding the parts of the brain that are affected by this disease.Limbic System – “Survival Brain”Neocortex – “Thinking Brain”NAc / Survival/reinforcement circuit – “Go” Ci...
Mark as Played
September 13, 2021 • 72 mins
For more information visit HammeredRecovery.com or e-mail me at justin@hammeredrecovery.com
Show Notes
In this weeks Podcast Kelly Kristo is back to fill in as guest host while I tell my story.
Topics covered include:
Growing up in a small townRealizing I drank differently than mostThe progression of my diseaseFinally admitting TO MYSELF that I had a problem and that I wanted a better life for myselfFinding that Meetin...
Mark as Played
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