RAW Recovery Podcast
Storytelling has a profound impact on individuals in recovery, as it allows them to connect with others who have walked similar paths. By sharing their own stories of struggle and triumph, individuals can find a sense of validation, comfort, and hope. When others hear stories of resilience and recovery, they feel less alone in their own struggles and are inspired to continue their journey towards healing. Storytelling can also help to break down stigmas and stereotypes surrounding addiction and mental health, promoting a culture of empathy and understanding. By sharing their stories, individuals can empower others to do the same, creating a ripple effect of hope and support that can have a lasting impact on those in recovery.
Episodes
Selfishness / Self-Centeredness
The Big Book tells us that selfishness and self-centeredness are at the root of many of our troubles. That does not always mean being greedy or uncaring. Sometimes it looks like needing control, needing to be right, taking everything personally, or making every situation about what we want and how we feel.
Today we’re talking about how self-centered thinking shows up in recovery, why it can be ...
Who Cares To Admit Complete Defeat?
Step One in the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions opens with a hard question: who wants to admit complete defeat? For most of us, admitting powerlessness sounds like losing. But the 12 & 12 turns that idea around—admitting powerlessness becomes the beginning of liberation.
Today we’re talking about why com...
Grateful? Or Gratitude?
There is a difference between being grateful and living with gratitude. Grateful can be recognizing what we have—a roof over our head, people who care about us, another sober day. Gratitude is what we do with those gifts.
Today we’re talking about how gratitude becomes action: showing up, being useful, keeping our word, ta...
Rule #62
In the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Tradition Four gives us one of AA’s great reminders: “Don’t take yourself too damn seriously.” It came out of a group that overreached, learned from the mess, laughed at itself, and moved on.
Today we’re talking about ego, control, self-importance, humility, and why learning to...
We Absolutely Insist on Enjoying Life
Recovery is not supposed to be one long exercise in fixing what is wrong with us. The Big Book reminds us that we are allowed to laugh, enjoy people, have fun, and actually participate in life.
Today we’re talking about what it means to enjoy life in recovery without waiting for everything to be perfect first. Grat...
A Doctor's Opinion
The Doctor’s Opinion gives us one of the clearest explanations of alcoholism in the Big Book: the physical allergy, the mental obsession, and why an alcoholic can sincerely want to stop and still find themselves drinking again.
Today we’re talking about what Dr. Silkworth was trying to explain, why alcoholism is more than bad c...
What Happened to Our Recovery Community?
Real Talk with Dion takes a look at what has happened to the recovery community—from AA and Twelve Step work to treatment centers, detox, sober living, recovery coaching, and the growing recovery industry.
We’ve built more programs, services, organizations, and resources than ever before, yet too many people still leave treatment or deto...
The Spiritual Experience
What does a spiritual experience actually look like? Does it have to be dramatic, sudden, and unmistakable—or can it happen gradually as our thinking, actions, and relationship with God begin to change?
Today we’re talking about the spiritual experience in recovery: what the Big Book means by it, the difference between a ...
There Is A Solution
Alcoholism creates a problem that can feel impossible to solve from the inside. We try control, promises, consequences, changing circumstances, and doing it our own way—and still end up back in the same place.
Today we’re talking about what the Big Book means when it says there is a solution: identification, fellowship, spirit...
Want to see the whole Unmanangables Video? Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDN_tg-bZ04
A Recovered Alcoholic?
What does it actually mean when the Big Book talks about a “recovered alcoholic”? Does recovered mean cured? Does it mean we no longer need a program? Or does it mean something deeper has changed in the way we live?
The Keys To The Kingdom
Recovery gives us access to things many of us spent years trying to find in all the wrong places—peace, freedom, purpose, connection, and a life we no longer have to escape from.
Today we’re talking about the principles that open those doors: honesty, humility, faith, service, forgiveness, and action. None of them work ver...
When Instincts Exceed Their Proper Function
Our instincts are not bad. Fear can protect us. Anger can tell us something matters. The need for security, comfort, approval, and connection are all part of being human. The problem begins when those instincts start running the show.
Today we’re talking about what happens when fear becomes control, anger bec...
Has The Recovery Community Lost Its Community?
Recovery is supposed to be about connection, support, service, and people helping people. But somewhere along the way, parts of the recovery community can start to feel divided by cliques, competition, judgment, personalities, money, and who belongs where.
Today we’re asking a harder question: have we beco...
Unity: Our Most Cherished Quality
AA works because we come together around a common purpose. We may have different backgrounds, beliefs, personalities, opinions, and experiences, but we share the same problem and the same hope for recovery.
Today we’re talking about why unity matters so much in Alcoholics Anonymous—how listening, mutual respect, ...
Random Recovery Reading
Sometimes the best recovery discussion starts by simply opening the literature and seeing where the page takes us.
Today we’re picking a reading at random and talking about what it brings up—recovery, spirituality, perspective, gratitude, the Steps, and how any of it applies to real life right now.
The Two Voices in Your Head: First Thought Wrong
We all know those two voices—the one that reacts fast, gets suspicious, wants to get even, wants to run, wants to drink, or tells us something is wrong before we even know the facts. Then there is the other voice that asks us to pause, check our motives, tell the truth, pray, reach out, and look at what is actually happening.
Does The Big HP Remove ALL Character Defects?
Steps Six and Seven bring us face to face with a difficult question: when we become ready and ask God to remove our defects of character, does that mean every defect simply disappears?
Today we’re talking about what the Big Book actually says about character defects, humility, willingness, continued growth,...
Without Humility, No Alcoholic Can Stay Sober at All
Step Seven in the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions says that humility is not just a nice spiritual idea—it is necessary to survival. It tells us plainly that without some degree of humility, no alcoholic can stay sober at all.
Today we’re talking about what humility really means in recovery. ...
The Big Book uses the phrase “real alcoholic” for a reason. It is not about how much somebody drank, what they lost, whether they had a job, or whether they ever went to jail. It is about what happens once alcohol enters the picture and whether that person can reliably control what happens next.
Today we’re talking about identification, the difference between conse...
Mysterious Paradoxes
On page 46 of Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, Bill W. talks about one of the great paradoxes of AA: out of complete defeat and weakness can come strength, and losing our old way of life can become the beginning of a new one.
Recovery is full of things that seem backwards at first. We surrender and find strength. We admit powerlessness...
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