RAW Recovery Podcast

Radical acceptance isn’t about liking what’s happening. It’s about finally dropping the fight with reality. Most of us spent years arguing with life, resisting the truth, and trying to force things to be the way we wanted. That battle nearly killed us. Radical acceptance is the opposite — it’s the doorway into emotional sobriety.

Acceptance doesn’t mean approval. It doesn’t mean surrendering your dignity. It doesn’t mean you stop t...

Living in the solution doesn’t mean life gets easy. It means you stop pouring gasoline on your own fires. It means you stop rehearsing the problem and start walking toward the answer. Most of us spent years living in the problem — blaming, reacting, hiding, drinking, isolating, controlling, running. Living in the solution is the opposite of all that.

Living in the solution is a shift — a spiritual one, an emotional one, and a pract...

Loyalty is one of the most misunderstood principles in recovery. A lot of us came in with backwards loyalty — loyal to the wrong people, the wrong habits, the wrong beliefs, even the wrong version of ourselves. We confused loyalty with attachment, with people-pleasing, or with tolerating behavior that was destroying us.

Real loyalty looks different. Real loyalty is alignment — with truth, with growth, with responsibility, and with ...

“When Wisdom Calls and Trouble Whispers”

Today is our very first episode of God Centered Recovery, hosted by Roger McDiarmid and Dion Miller. We’re kicking things off with Proverbs 1 — a chapter that captures a truth every person in recovery can relate to: wisdom calls out loudly, but trouble whispers quietly… and that whisper often sounds way too familiar.

In this episode, Roger brings insight into the themes of Proverbs 1 while D...

We judge ourselves by our intentions, but the world experiences us through our actions. And recovery sits right in the middle of that tension.

Intentions matter — they show where our heart is pointed. But intentions without accountability? That’s how we stay sick. That’s how we repeat the same behaviors, hurt the same people, and convince ourselves we’re “trying” when nothing actually changes.

Accountability is where growth happens...

People think healing makes you softer, gentler, more agreeable. But the truth? The healed version of you will look “meaner” — not because you turned into a jerk, but because you finally stopped letting people walk all over you.

Healing doesn’t turn you into a saint. It turns you into someone who values their own peace. Someone who doesn’t apologize for boundaries. Someone who doesn’t shrink to keep other people comfortable. Someone...

We don’t get sober just to stop drinking — we get sober because something inside us wakes up. A deep desire to live usefully. A desire to stop hiding, stop destroying, and start showing up for life in a way that actually matters.

Living usefully isn’t about being perfect. It isn’t about saving the world. It’s about being honest, present, dependable, and willing. It’s about taking everything we’ve been through — even the darkest par...

We’re not here to be perfect — we’re here to grow. And sometimes growth comes dressed up as a slip, a setback, or a moment where our flaws get loud. That doesn’t make you a failure. It makes you human.

Today we’re talking about what it really means to look beyond the flaws — ours and other people’s — and why a slip can actually be progress when it wakes us up, humbles us, or gets us honest again.

In this Daily Trudge, we dig into:

Living sober is one thing. Living emotionally sober is where the real work starts. Most of us didn’t drink because life was hard — we drank because feelings were hard. Emotional sobriety is the ability to sit in life without letting our reactions run the show.

In today’s Daily Trudge, we’re breaking down what emotional sobriety actually means, why it’s harder than putting the drink down, and the simple tools that make the biggest i...

In recovery, we feel deeply — fear, shame, joy, insecurity, hope. But here’s where a lot of us get tangled up:

We start treating feelings like facts. “If I feel unworthy, I am unworthy.” “If I feel abandoned, they must be abandoning me.” “If I feel anger, someone else must have caused it.”

But feelings aren’t facts — they’re signals. They’re valid, they matter, and they point to something inside us… …but they do not automatically r...

“Repairing the Damage” is more than making amends — it’s about becoming the kind of person who doesn’t keep creating new wreckage. In recovery, we look back and see the emotional, spiritual, and relational destruction our drinking caused. It’s overwhelming if we stare at it all at once. But the program teaches us a different way:

One conversation at a time. One behavior change at a time. One willingness moment at a time.

Today we’l...

In recovery, we don’t always need fancy words or deep philosophy — sometimes the truth just needs to be spoken plainly. Today we’re breaking down recovery without the fluff, without the buzzwords, and without pretending everything is fine when it isn’t.

We’ll talk about what’s really going on under the surface:

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“Practice these principles in all our affairs” — the line every alcoholic skips over until life smacks us in the face.

This isn’t about being perfect. It’s about consistency.

Anyone can be spiritual in a meeting. Anyone can be humble when life is going their way. But real recovery shows up at work, in traffic, in relationships, in conflict, in fear…

In all our affairs means: • When we feel attacked • When we feel tired • When we do...

Not everyone we meet in recovery plays the same role — and knowing the difference can save your sobriety.

Today we’re breaking down three of the most misunderstood relationships in recovery: the Sponsor, the Temporary Sponsor, and the Closed-Mouthed Friend.

A Sponsor walks you through the Steps, tells you the truth even when you don’t want to hear it, and helps you build a spiritual foundation that won’t collapse when life hits.

A ...

Emotional sobriety doesn’t come free — it costs comfort, ego, self-pity, and the illusion that we can control everything. The moment we stop drinking, we start facing the real work: feeling feelings, taking responsibility, letting go, and learning how to respond instead of react.

Emotional sobriety is the point where recovery stops being about not drinking and starts being about living differently. Today we talk about what it costs...

Betrayal hits differently for alcoholics. It doesn’t just hurt — it reopens every old wound, every fear, every lie we told ourselves, and every lie that was told to us. But recovery gives us something we never had before: a path from betrayal to real closure.

Closure isn’t about forgetting, pretending, or minimizing what happened. It’s about reclaiming our peace, releasing the poison, and removing the power that betrayal has had ov...

In AA we hear it all the time — “the Steps are suggested.”

But suggested like a friendly menu option… or suggested like gravity?

The truth is, the Steps are “suggested” the same way opening a parachute when you jump out of a plane is “suggested.” Nobody is forcing you — but the results speak for themselves.

Today we’re talking about what “suggested” really means, why the Steps aren’t optional if you want long-term freedom, and how ...

Quitting drinking is only the beginning. What we choose not to do after we put the bottle down is just as important as what we choose to do.

In this Daily Trudge, we’re covering the most common traps that take recovering alcoholics off the beam — resentment, isolation, self-pity, drifting from the basics, and thinking we’re “good now.”

Staying sober means avoiding the behaviors that pull us back into fear, ego, and self-destruction...