RAW Recovery Podcast

There are moments in recovery when quitting feels easier than continuing. When progress feels slow, when mistakes pile up, when life doesn’t let up, and the old voice starts whispering that none of this is worth it. That voice lies. Recovery isn’t built on perfection — it’s built on persistence.

“Never, ever give up” doesn’t mean you never fall. It means you don’t stay down. It means you keep showing up, even tired, even discourage...

“Happy, joyous, and free” isn’t a mood. It’s not a nonstop emotional high. It’s not pretending life is perfect or that pain disappears in recovery. It’s a spiritual condition — one that grows when we stop fighting life, stop running from ourselves, and stop trying to control outcomes.

For many of us, happiness was something we chased. Joy was something we tried to manufacture. Freedom felt impossible. Recovery teaches us that these...

Thinking of others doesn’t come naturally to most of us — especially in early recovery. Addiction trains us to live inward, to focus on our needs, our pain, our fear, our cravings, our story. That mindset keeps us stuck. Recovery begins to change when we start looking outward.

Thinking of others isn’t about neglecting yourself or becoming a doormat. It’s about stepping out of self-centered fear and into usefulness. It’s one of the ...

We all came in thinking our problems were unique — different stories, different damage, different pain. But recovery has a way of stripping that illusion away. Different paths brought us here, but the solution is surprisingly common.

A common solution doesn’t mean a cheap or easy one. It means shared principles: honesty, surrender, accountability, humility, service, and reliance on God rather than self-will. The details of our stor...

Most of us come into recovery convinced that our alcoholism is a curse — the thing that ruined our lives, destroyed relationships, shattered opportunities, and dragged us to our knees. And yes, it did all of that. But what if that wasn’t the whole truth? What if the very thing that nearly killed you is also the thing God is using to save you — and others?

This isn’t about romanticizing alcoholism. It’s about recognizing what happen...

Accountability is the moment recovery stops being theory and becomes real life. It’s the grown-up side of sobriety — the part where we stop blaming, stop hiding, stop sugarcoating, and start taking responsibility for our actions, our reactions, and our impact.

Most of us spent years living in denial, excuses, and “Yeah, but…” thinking. Accountability is the shift where we finally look in the mirror without running. It’s not about s...

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...