Recovery Unfiltered
Taking recovery discussion to a different level. Bringing comedy and the lighter side of sober living along with educating non-alcoholics and alcoholics. Hear real stories unfiltered.
Episodes
What happens when faith meets addiction recovery? Kat's story is a powerful testament to finding freedom through both spiritual awakening and the 12-step program. With raw honesty, she shares her journey from teenage drinking to maintaining a decade of sobriety—revealing the complex dance between faith, fellowship, and personal accountability.
Kat takes us through her early years when alcohol first made ...
What happens when life goes sideways in recovery? When carefully laid plans crumble and unexpected tragedy strikes? Jason returns to Recovery Unfiltered to share a raw, emotional story that tests the limits of "living life on life's terms."
The journey begins with Jason's excitement about attending the International AA Convention in Vancouver—his first since getting sober. But as his depar...
Finding peace amid the chaos of your own mind might be recovery's greatest challenge. In this eye-opening episode, Stefani shares her remarkable journey from addiction to awakening, revealing how the 12 Steps silenced the cruel voices that had dominated her thoughts for years.
"The steps removed so many voices in my head that I didn't know existed until they were gone," Stefani reflects, d...
What begins as an ordinary story of teenage experimentation spirals into a harrowing journey through addiction's darkest corners. Stefani—raised in a loving, stable home with law enforcement connections—never imagined she'd become trapped in a cycle of heroin dependency and sex trafficking. Yet one casual drug experience in high school set her on a path that would ultimately cost her everything.
Wit...
Ever wonder what truly protects us from relapse? It's not white-knuckling through triggers or avoiding life's challenges – it's something far more powerful.
The conversation dives deep into the nature of fear in recovery, specifically the fear of relapse that haunts many on the sobriety journey. Through candid personal stories and powerful insights from both recovery literature and lived experi...
What happens when the weight of trauma becomes too heavy to bear? In this raw and deeply moving episode, we sit down with Jim, a retired Assistant Fire Chief with 33 years of service, who takes us through his harrowing journey with alcoholism, PTSD, and ultimately, a suicide attempt that changed everything.
Jim's story begins in a large Irish Catholic family where drinking was normalized from an early ag...
Shawn shares his journey from growing up in a household where drinking was normalized to finding sobriety and reconciliation with his oldest daughter after years of addiction and separation.
• First introduced to alcohol at age five when his mother gave him Schlitz malt liquor for a head injury
• Military career cut short after testing positive for cocaine, returned home to continue cycle of addiction
What happens when our emotional development gets frozen by addiction? How do we learn to process feelings we've been numbing for decades? This powerful episode brings together voices of lived experience and professional expertise to explore the profound connection between mental health and recovery.
The conversation begins with a fascinating examination of perspective in sobriety. Rob shares his belief t...
When Stefani stepped onto the softball field at Sacramento State on scholarship, no one could have predicted the dark journey ahead. Her story shatters the myth that sex trafficking only happens to certain types of people from certain backgrounds.
Raised in a loving home with a law enforcement family, Stefani's path to addiction began subtly through a high school relationship. What started as experimenta...
The mountains speak to us in recovery. That special place where rivers merge becomes a profound metaphor for the spiritual transformation we undergo in sobriety—where God enables us to "match calamity with serenity." One host shares how returning to this sacred spot after gaining sobriety brought tears of gratitude rather than just momentary escape.
What does love truly mean in recovery? Before sobr...
What do you do when you can't directly make amends to someone you've hurt long ago? How do you release the guilt of harmful words spoken decades in the past? These questions haunt many in recovery, and in this episode, we unpack the transformative power of "living amends."
The conversation begins with Larry sharing highlights from an AA convention in Canada, where a speaker's powerful...
What happens when a homeless alcoholic who had resigned himself to "drinking and drugging to death" finds recovery and transforms his life completely? Paul story answers this question with raw honesty and profound hope.
Paul takes us through his journey from a childhood of constant relocations to his early drinking at age 13, through failed suicide attempts, living in his car, and abandoning his fa...
Fifty-two episodes. One year of sobriety stories. Countless lives touched.
This special anniversary episode takes you behind the scenes of Recovery Unfiltered's remarkable first year. Larry and Rob, joined by their wives Katie and Bonnie, reflect on how a vision born from tragedy—a son lost to fentanyl—transformed into a beacon of hope for those battling addiction.
The journey hasn't been ...
What happens when the spotlight turns to those who've weathered addiction's fiercest storms—not as alcoholics themselves, but as the wives who stayed? In this powerful episode, hosts Larry and Rob invite their wives, Katie and Bonnie, to share their side of the recovery story.
Katie reveals how family vacations became sources of resentment rather than joy as everything centered around Larry's n...
Larry and his daughter Maranda explore her perspective on his alcoholism and recovery journey, creating a powerful conversation about family healing, forgiveness, and moving forward together.
• Maranda shares childhood memories of her father as a church deacon with an "open door" home for those in need
• Larry's first drink came after gastric bypass surgery in 2007, setting the stage for hi...
In this milestone 50th episode, we pull back the curtain on addiction and recovery through the eyes of a daughter as Larry's youngest, McKenna, joins the conversation to share her perspective on her father's journey through alcoholism and sobriety.
McKenna recounts growing up with her dad "Larber," from their adventures showing livestock to the gradual shift as social drinking progressed i...
At just fourteen years old, Christy found herself pushing suitcases out of her window, running away with a boyfriend to Texas, and soon after, discovering she was pregnant. This moment would be the first of many life-altering decisions that shaped her journey through addiction, motherhood, and eventually, recovery.
Christy's raw account of growing up too fast pulls no punches as she details her early int...
Birthdays in recovery are powerful milestones that remind us of both how far we've come and the work that carried us here. In this deeply personal episode, we celebrate Rob's 14th sobriety birthday with surprise calls from sponsees and friends while exploring the universal principles of recovery that apply to healing of all kinds.
Through heartfelt conversations and raw reflections, we uncover the s...
Larry and Rob explore the concept that relapse is not about external triggers but rather a reflection of one's spiritual fitness and how thoroughly they've worked on their recovery.
• Discussing a member who relapsed and questioned whether to make amends again
• Sharing stories of transformation, particularly focusing on Nathan's physical and spiritual growth
• Examining the Big Book&ap...
Larry and Rob explore the transformative power of willingness in recovery and the emotional impact of recording vulnerable stories.
• Reflecting on the powerful episode with Kim and Mike that brought unexpected tears
• Larry's sponsee Blake making progress through steps 4-7 of the program
• The critical importance of willingness as "indispensable" in recovery
• Developing a genuine ...
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