Episodes
Death By Poison
To most people, yet another opioid death might seem like just another statistic. But for Ed and Brighid Hillmuth, the tragic end …
Please, Somebody Pull My Brake
Get ready for a high-energy, rapid-fire episode of genuine, forthright conversation on faith-based recovery! In substance-use rec…
Radical Acceptance
Danica Adams doesn’t mince words, and when it comes to telling her recovery story, she is not shy. Honesty is not in short supply…
152 Days and Counting
Ten years. Ten years of ‘skill-building’. That’s a good amount of time. Musician and writer Kevin McManus built up a decade of t…
The Waiting, The Wearing-Through, and the Willingness
Just the memories and a microphone. No safety-net. Nothing to fall back on. Just like that decision to finally ask for help, some…
Just a Dad from Akron
"Be the change that you want to be." It was a seemingly simple decision to change schools that moved the momentum of a young …
When It’s Time For the Hard Conversation
It's the front line of tomorrow's America, and being on the front lines can be tiring and messy. It can be lonely yet crowded and…
A Hobby Turned To a Habit
“I just wanted to feel better. I didn’t want to feel bad.” These words from Summit County Domestic Relations Court Magistrate Ch…
Rise Up: A Story of An Adult Child of Alcoholics
In childhood, Crissy Youngblood was surrounded by grown-ups who struggled and suffered from alcoholism and drug abuse. She is a s…
Unicorns and Polka-Dots: A Song of Hope
At 24 years of age, most young people have moved in a career direction. Some have even chosen marriage. A few are giving birth an…
Deep-Diving on Dual-Diagnosis
Mental Health Issues. Substance Use-Disorder. Each poses significant challenges for the person afflicted and the person tasked wi…
Never Give Up
Athena Fleming has endured something that most people will never experience: the loss of a child to addiction. In perhaps the…
When the Shattered Pieces Come Together
“Trauma is not unusual. What’s unusual is not having somebody to help us move through it”. April 23rd, 2019, may have been a …
When the Shattered Pieces Come Together
“Trauma is not unusual. What’s unusual is not having somebody to help us move through it”. April 23rd, 2019, may have been a …
Hurt People Hurt People
The ‘well of pain.’ For the person in long-term recovery, ‘pain’ is real. Sometimes unforgiving. What can begin the process towar…
The Road to Redemption
The Road to Redemption – Judge Susan Baker Ross If Season 3 of ‘Recovery Talks: The Podcast’ has shown us anything, it’s th…
Feeding the Malnourished Brain - Rachel Pollack
Can a person be active in recovery without realizing why they are in recovery? Rachel Pollack is such a person. Stricken with an …
When The Wheels Come Off
When the Wheels Come Off - China Darrington This is not your average "girl who gets in trouble" recovery story. Let's face it…
The Master Manipulators
Relationships can be both intensely gratifying and amazingly complex. And they’re made even more challenging if a relationship in…
Helping-Each-Other Magic
Recovery. And ‘creativity’. Are they light-years from each other? Distant cousins? Or soul-mates? The seemingly divergent paths o…
Being OK Where You Are
As a functional addict, Christopher Wimmer made every effort early on to, in his words, ‘get as messed up as possible as often as…
Too Blessed To Be Stressed
What happens when nobody wants you around. When you’re ‘unemployable’. When you’ve burned every bridge. At an early age, Clyde H…
Grief Brain
‘Grief’ is transformational on a variety of levels. Helping others through their time of grief within the scope of an occupation…
When the Spinning Stops
It’s a dichotomy and an irony: When Zach Friedhoff’s mother passed away, that event provoked a kind of a mental pirouette, one th…