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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…
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The Painful Past Can Be of Infinite Value
The Painful Past Can Be of Infinite Value What if the very experiences we wish we could forget could become some of our greatest assets in recovery? Today on…
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Are We Still Teachable? — The Daily Trudge
Are We Still Teachable? — The Daily Trudge We talk a lot about willingness in recovery, but what happens when we've been sober for a while and start thinking…
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The Tremendous Fact: We Have Found A Solution
The Tremendous Fact: We Have Found A Solution “We have found a solution.” Those words from Chapter 2 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous carry a message of…
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(No sound first three minutes) Alcoholism: The Progressive Disease
Alcoholism: The Progressive Disease Alcoholism is a progressive disease. But what does that really mean, and how do we recognize its progression? Today on The…
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Showing Love Through Our Primary Purpose
Showing Love Through Our Primary Purpose What does it really mean to show love in Alcoholics Anonymous? Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other…
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Unity — The Second Legacy
Unity — The Second Legacy What happens to Alcoholics Anonymous when we forget the importance of unity? Bill W. left us three legacies: Recovery, Unity, and…
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Integrity
Integrity What does it really mean to live with integrity? We talk a lot about honesty in recovery, but integrity goes beyond simply telling the truth. It's…
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Are We Restored To Sanity?
Are We Restored To Sanity? Step Two tells us that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. But what does being restored to sanity actually…
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True Tolerance
True Tolerance What does it really mean to practice tolerance in recovery? It's easy to be tolerant of people who think like us, believe what we believe, and…
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I Am Responsible...
I Am Responsible... What does it really mean to be responsible in recovery? In Alcoholics Anonymous, we talk a lot about taking responsibility for our actions…
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Does God Remove ALL Defects Of Character?
Does God Remove ALL Defects Of Character? Step Seven tells us to humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings. But does that mean God removes every defect of…
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We Meet These Conditions Every Day
We Meet These Conditions Every Day In the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, we're told that we are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily…
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Courage And Prudence
Courage And Prudence Courage tells us to move. Prudence tells us to pay attention to where we are going. Recovery takes both. There are times when we need the…
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H.O.W.
H.O.W. Honesty. Openness. Willingness. Three simple words, but they can change the direction of our recovery. Honesty helps us see where we really are…
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Freedom to Choose
Freedom to Choose As Bill Sees It, page 124, talks about a kind of freedom that changes as we grow. At first, we may do the right thing because we have to…
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The Greatest Gift Of All
The Greatest Gift Of All Recovery gives us a lot more than just the ability to stop drinking. Over time, it can give us freedom from obsession, a clearer mind…
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The AA Preamble
The AA Preamble Most of us have heard it hundreds, maybe thousands of times. But how often do we actually stop and listen to what the AA Preamble is saying?…
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What Is Good Communication?
What Is Good Communication? We talk all day long. We text, email, comment, message, post, and react. But how much of that is actually good communication? Today…
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What Do You Do When You Don’t Feel Like Doing Any of It?
What Do You Do When You Don’t Feel Like Doing Any of It? Some days there is no big crisis, no breakthrough, and no real inspiration. You just look at the…
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Into Action
Into Action Recovery is not just something we understand. At some point, we have to do something with what we know. Today we’re talking about the move from…
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Random Recovery Reading
Random Recovery Reading Sometimes the right thing shows up when we stop trying to force the topic. Open the book, read a page, and see what speaks to us. Today…
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Giving Without Strings
Giving Without Strings Giving is easy when we expect something back. Appreciation. Loyalty. Agreement. Recognition. But what happens when we give and none of…
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Waiting To Sponsor VS Being The Sponsor
Waiting To Sponsor VS Being The Sponsor There is a big difference between waiting until we feel ready to sponsor and actually stepping into the responsibility…
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We Forgive But Do We Really Forget?
We Forgive But Do We Really Forget? Forgiveness sounds simple until the memory is still there. We may decide to forgive someone, but that does not mean the…
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Fear, Trust And Courage
Fear, Trust And Courage Fear tells us to hold back. Trust asks us to take the next step anyway. Courage is what happens when we move forward even though the…
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Who Cares To Admit Complete Defeat?
Who Cares To Admit Complete Defeat? Nobody likes the idea of defeat. We are taught to fight harder, try again, stay in control, and never give up. But Step One…
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No Regrets!?
No Regrets!? We hear people say, “I have no regrets,” but is that really true—or even necessary? Our past includes mistakes, bad choices, hurt, consequences…
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Humility For Today
Humility For Today Humility is not thinking less of ourselves. It is being honest about who we are, staying teachable, letting go of the need to be right, and…
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Learning From Those Who Came Before Us
Learning From Those Who Came Before Us Recovery did not start with us, and it will not end with us. We have the benefit of people who came before us, made…
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Alcoholism: The Progressive Disease
Alcoholism: The Progressive Disease Alcoholism usually does not destroy everything at once. It progresses. Tolerance changes. Consequences grow. Relationships…
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The Being Human Step
The Being Human Step Recovery gives us principles, tools, and a way of living—but none of that makes us stop being human. We still make mistakes, get angry…
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Black Sheep Or Lions Of Truth?
Black Sheep Or Lions Of Truth? Sometimes the person labeled the “black sheep” is simply the one who refuses to keep pretending everything is okay. They…
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Our Third Legacy: Service
Our Third Legacy: Service Recovery is more than staying sober. AA’s Third Legacy reminds us that service is part of how the Fellowship survives and how the…
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The Language Of The Heart
The Language Of The Heart Recovery has its own kind of language—the kind that happens when one alcoholic talks honestly to another and something finally gets…
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Why did I create Solution Sessions?
Why did I create Solution Sessions? Because I know what it’s like to be stuck, overwhelmed, starting over, and trying to figure out what comes next. I’ve spent…
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A Fragment Of History: The Origin Of The 12 Steps
A Fragment Of History: The Origin Of The 12 Steps The Twelve Steps did not just appear out of nowhere. They grew out of the early experiences of Alcoholics…
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The Importance Of Prayer And Meditation
The Importance Of Prayer And Meditation Prayer and meditation are more than things we are told to do in recovery. They are ways of slowing down, getting out of…
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Selfishness / Self-Centeredness
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…
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Who Cares To Admit Complete Defeat?
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…
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Grateful? Or Gratitude?
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…
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Rule #62
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…
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We Absolutely Insist on Enjoying Life
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…
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A Doctor's Opinion
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…
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What Happened to Our Recovery Community?
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…
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The Spiritual Experience
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…
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There Is A Solution
There Is A Solution Alcoholism creates a problem that can feel impossible to solve from the inside. We try control, promises, consequences, changing…
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A Recovered Alcoholic?
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…
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The Keys To The Kingdom
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…
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When Instincts Exceed Their Proper Function
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…
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Has The Recovery Community Lost Its Community?
Has The Recovery Community Lost Its Community? Recovery is supposed to be about connection, support, service, and people helping people. But somewhere along…
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Unity: Our Most Cherished Quality
Unity: Our Most Cherished Quality AA works because we come together around a common purpose. We may have different backgrounds, beliefs, personalities…
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Random Recovery Reading
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…
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The Two Voices in Your Head: First Thought Wrong
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…
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Does The Big HP Remove ALL Character Defects?
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…
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Without Humility, No Alcoholic Can Stay Sober at All
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…
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But What About The Real Alcoholic
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…
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Mysterious Paradoxes
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…
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The True Sign of Intelligence Is Not Knowledge but Imagination
The True Sign of Intelligence Is Not Knowledge but Imagination Knowledge tells us what we already know. Imagination allows us to look beyond what is in front…
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Practice These Principles
Practice These Principles The Steps are not meant to stay on a page. Recovery is about taking what we learn and actually using it in our relationships, our…
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Sometimes the Day You Planned Is Not the Day You Are Supposed to Have
Sometimes the Day You Planned Is Not the Day You Are Supposed to Have We can wake up with a plan for the day and be completely convinced we know how things are…