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Addressing the Social Stigmas of Addiction and Recovery, One Conversation at a Time. Our 2025 Season Premieres on January 8th!

Episodes

September 11, 2024 7 mins

2024 1047 In our 2024 season finale, Rusty and Tim reflect on our first season of 46 episodes and look forward to our new season which premieres on January 8, 2025!

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2024 1046 Michel M shares her experience of growing up in a public but dysfunctional family where public shaming was a norm as related to her issues with eating disorders and alcoholism, struggling with her addiction issues in recovery to finding a life of freedom and joy today.

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August 28, 2024 35 mins

2024 E1045 Saxxon shares his powerful story of childhood trauma to his introduction to alcohol and drugs, his journey through addiction and homelessness, to his struggles to achieve a sober and productive life.

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2024 1044 In our final discussion about Earnie Larsen's Book and the program “Stage II Recovery: Life Beyond Addiction”, Pamela and Curt return talk about creating and working an effective program that is concrete, practical, focused, and consistent to move past the habits or behavioral patterns which stand in the way of the relationships and life we would like to have going forward.

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2024 1043 Our third segment on Earnie Larsen's Book “Stage II Recovery: Life Beyond Addiction” features Pamela and Curt returning to discuss recovery demanding change, change taking place in three steps: conversion, decision, and action, the conversion experience and making the decision to change.

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2024 E1042 Pamela and Curt return to continue our conversation on "Stage II Recovery: Life Beyond Addiction" and the importance of understanding the profound effect of habits and their impact on and impediment to change.

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2024 E1041 Pamela S and Curt W join us for the first in a series of conversations about the topic of Earnie Larsen's Book "Stage II Recovery: Life Beyond Addiction". In this episode we discuss Larsen's definition of recovery and the differentiation between Stage I and Stage II Recovery along with Self-Defeating Learned Behaviors of Caretakers, People-Pleasers, Martyrs, Workaholics, Perfectionists, and Tap Dancers.

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July 24, 2024 53 mins

2024 1040 Garrison Getchell shares the struggles of his journey to get to the doorstep of Hope Is Alive, his progression through the faith based program, what success looks like for a participant, and the process of entering and expectations as part of the program, his current role as a Community Outreach Coordinator, and future opportunities within the spectrum of the HIA programs.

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2024 1039 "It Wasn't For Lack Of Trying" is Michelle H's powerful life share of experience, strength, and hope in her alcoholism and recovery journey through the programs of Alcoholics Anonymous, Al-Anon, Adult Children Of Alcoholics and more.

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2024 1038 Michelle H continues our conversation on the topic boundaries, with Rusty and Tim, in terms of defining healthy boundaries based on our individual motivations and difficulty with codependency as related to boundaries.

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2024 1037 Michelle, Larry, and Rusty discuss growing up in chaotic households and some of the unreasonable boundaries they experienced in their youth and how as adults they have been able to establish and experience healthy boundaries as a result of various programs of recovery.

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2024 1036 Juliann G hosts Rusty and our guest Mike A for a wide-ranging discussion on Codependency including learned helplessness, workaholism, perfectionism, tap dancing as a few of the topics in this episode.

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2024 1035 Elder statesman Chuck B shares the problems experienced by "turning his will and life over to the care of alcohol as he understood alcohol" at an early age to the benefits received by turning his will and life over to the care of God as he understood God via the program of Alcoholics Anonymous.

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2024 1034 A regular contributor to ChildrenOfChaos.net, Dan shares his story which includes a period in becoming sober without a recovery program, the dry drunk acting as a tornado in others lives, and the positive impact he experienced once he reached the Alcoholics Anonymous program.

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2024 1033 Larry B and Michelle H share their experience as children and adults dealing with the impacts of shame and building walls to keep from being vulnerable until entered recovery and gained the tools to deal effectively with these issues.

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2024 1032 “I’m Just A Servant” is John Mc’s story of experience, strength, and hope as he watched and learned life experiences in a strict, conservative home. John shares about his friends taking care of him while he was in the height of his alcoholism, and the support he has received from the rooms of recovery in all aspects of his life and relationships.

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2024 1031 Juliann and Corinne join Rusty for a wonderful conversation about the Al-Anon Program and the impact it can have on relationships.

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2024 1030 “ACA Helped Me Rewrite My Story” is a powerful discussion about the program Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families (ACA). Larry, Michele and Rhonda share about the program, how they became involved with ACA, and how they came to answer the question “How do I fix me?” and began to learn and realize there is nobody to blame and how the program has helped each of them rewrite their individual story.

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2024 1029 Am I Clean And Sober If? Finale; Jonathan, Merlin, and Dan share about the impact and benefit of a certain substances or medications, the purpose and intent of the individual, whether or not the person is actually working the recovery program, and finally that it is not our place to judge another person.

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2024 1028 Debbie, Nancy, and Sally share their experience dealing with the destructive path of various eating disorders, the many twists and turns in their individual road to recovery, and how finding the Overeaters Anonymous program shaped their hope for the future.

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