RAW Recovery Podcast

We all walk into recovery carrying wounds — some we caused, some caused by others, and some we’ve kept alive far longer than necessary. The real spiritual work begins when we stop spreading the hurt and start becoming instruments of healing.

Inspired by the spirit of the St. Francis prayer (without the religious packaging), today we talk about what it really means to bring peace where there is conflict, forgiveness where there is r...

Why is it that we can give patience, kindness, and understanding to people we barely know — but the second we walk into our own home, our fuse gets shorter, our tone gets sharper, and our grace runs out?

In recovery, we learn that the real test of spiritual growth isn’t how we act at a meeting… it’s how we treat the people we live with, love, and sometimes take for granted.

Today we dig into: • Why it’s easier to be patient with st...

In today’s Daily Trudge, we’re talking about a hard truth: Alcoholism doesn’t just destroy the drinker — it reshapes the entire family system.

Families living with alcoholism often become defined by: • chaos, • secrecy, • denial, • emotional volatility, • and roles that no one ever asked for.

The alcoholic isn’t the only one who gets sick — everyone under that roof learns to survive in a dysfunctional environment.

The Big Book tell...

In today’s Daily Trudge, we’re talking about something the recovery world doesn’t always want to admit — people judge what they don’t understand.

Ever been told you’re “too much,” “too emotional,” “too intense,” or that you should just “get over it”?

That usually comes from people who’ve never stood on the front lines with us.

The front lines of addiction. The front lines of trauma. The front lines of rebuilding your life from ashe...

In today’s Daily Trudge, we’re talking about expectations and the little things — two areas that can either build our serenity or completely destroy it.

Expectations are resentments waiting to happen. They tell us how life should go, how people should act, and how recovery should feel.

But peace doesn’t live in should. It lives in what is.

When we slow down and start noticing the small stuff — a quiet morning, a friend’s text, the ...

In today’s Daily Trudge, we’re shining a light on one of the sneakiest threats to long-term sobriety: Big Shotism — the idea that I’ve got this now, I’m different, or the rules don’t apply to me anymore.

The Big Book warns us that when ego takes over, sanity slips out the back door. Big Shotism isn’t loud — it’s subtle. It shows up as: • Thinking you’re “too good” for the basics • Giving advice instead of taking direction • Forgett...

In today’s Daily Trudge, we’re talking about one of the most common — but least admitted — challenges in recovery: loneliness.

Loneliness isn’t just being alone. It’s the feeling of being disconnected, unseen, or spiritually empty. And for many of us, loneliness was the engine that drove our drinking.

The Big Book tells us we were people who “didn’t belong,” who lived in separation, fear, and self-pity. When we put the bottle down,...

In today’s Daily Trudge, we’re diving into a skill that most alcoholics struggle with — the art of delayed gratification.

Our disease taught us to chase the quick fix: the drink, the escape, the comfort, the emotional hit. But recovery teaches us something far more powerful:

Not everything good happens instantly — and not everything instant is good.

Delayed gratification is where emotional sobriety really begins.

It’s choosing long...

In today’s Daily Trudge, we’re taking it back to where recovery truly begins: The admission of personal powerlessness.

Before the healing, before the Steps, before the promises — there’s a moment where we finally admit the truth:

I can’t do this on my own.

This isn’t weakness. This is awakening.

The Big Book tells us that alcohol is “cunning, baffling, powerful,” and that without help, it will beat us every time.

But the second we ...

In today’s Daily Trudge, we’re hitting one of the most reliable truths in recovery: When in doubt… get out of self.

Most of our problems don’t come from the world — they come from the way we react to it. When I’m stuck in fear, anger, resentment, or self-pity, 99% of the time the solution is spiritual, simple, and humbling:

Get out of self and into service, honesty, gratitude, or God’s will.

The Big Book reminds us that selfishness...

In today’s Daily Trudge, we’re asking one of the hardest questions in recovery: Am I living the AA program — or just visiting it?

Anybody can go to meetings. Anybody can say the slogans. But living the program means we’ve taken the Steps off the wall and put them into our daily life.

It’s easy to get comfortable — to coast, to socialize, to make recovery look good on the outside while we’re still running the show on the inside.

But...

In today’s Daily Trudge, we’re talking about two spiritual principles that walk hand in hand — Humility and Responsibility.

Humility reminds us we’re not running the show. Responsibility reminds us that we still have a part to play.

In recovery, humility without responsibility turns into passivity — and responsibility without humility turns into ego.

The goal isn’t perfection. It’s balance.

God does the heavy lifting, but He expect...

In today’s Recovery Watchdog, we’re talking about something real — the two types of people that work in the recovery field.

You’ve got the ones who do it because they care — because they’ve lived it, survived it, and want to give back. And then you’ve got the ones who do it for the career — the paycheck, the power, the prestige.

The first type shows up early, stays late, and keeps showing up even when nobody’s watching. The second ...

In today’s Daily Trudge, we’re going back to the roots — The Four Absolutes: Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness, and Love.

Long before the Twelve Steps were written, these were the spiritual yardsticks used by the Oxford Group — and they still measure how well we’re living our recovery today.

These aren’t rules — they’re reminders.

Am I being honest, or just careful with the truth? Am I choosing purity, or bending my values to fit comf...

Every day in recovery starts the same way: with a chance to choose our mindset. Before the phone, before the coffee, before the world starts spinning, we stop and think of the day ahead.

It’s not about predicting what’s coming — it’s about preparing our spirit for it. When I ask God to direct my thinking, I’m really saying, “Keep me out of my own way today.”

The Big Book reminds us that we don’t surrender our brains; we just stop u...

In today’s Daily Trudge, we’re talking about one of the hardest truths in recovery: apologies don’t mean a thing without action.

Step 9 teaches us to make direct amends, but real amends aren’t just words — they’re consistent change.

We don’t fix the past by rewriting it; we heal it by living differently today.

Saying “sorry” may open the door, but changed behavior keeps it open.

This is where recovery gets real — when the people we...

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In today’s Daily Trudge, we’re talking about the cost of freedom.

Everyone wants freedom — from addiction, from fear, from the past. But freedom isn’t something we get; it’s something we earn by showing up, doing the work, and staying honest even when it hurts.

The price? Ego. Comfort. Excuses.

The payoff? Peace. Purpose. Serenity.

Sobriety doesn’t come cheap — it ...

In today’s Daily Trudge, we’re talking about the cost of freedom.

Everyone wants freedom — from addiction, from fear, from the past. But freedom isn’t something we get; it’s something we earn by showing up, doing the work, and staying honest even when it hurts.

The price? Ego. Comfort. Excuses.

The payoff? Peace. Purpose. Serenity.

Sobriety doesn’t come cheap — it costs everything that was keeping us sick.

But the freedom we find o...