Season 3
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…
Navigating Without
In this second installment of a 4-part series on 'grief,' host Marc Lee Shannon introduces us to his close friend, Terry Weaver. …
You Gotta Tell This Story
As a photographer, telling the story of a cancer patient’s journey would be difficult enough. But what if the patient was also yo…
Thank You, COVID
Seasoned touring music-technician Abbey Wright is an anomaly: she has a keen sense of gratitude for COVID-19 and what it brought …
Everyone‘s a Snowflake
Emily Beers didn’t get in to this because she is a recovering addict, and she didn’t learn about it out of a book. As the Progra…
Hangin‘ with the Winners
“I accepted the fact that I was going to die before I was 40.” Tower of Power founder and saxophonist Emilio Castillo was div…
Coins In Our Pockets
Coins in our pockets. What if the years of our life were a representation of those jangles and jingles in our pouches, and each d…