If a person in recovery is utilizing a 12-Step program, sooner or later, they will be tasked with choosing a sponsor. A sponsor is someone who has worked the steps, has a sponsor, and is in recovery for at least one year. A sponsor can utilize their experience to support…

Stateline Retreat in Primm, NV – December 11th 2009 http://recoveredcast.com Check out this episode!

Journaling, or keeping a regular record of experiences and feelings, especially as they relate to your recovery, can be a helpful tool to advance your healing process. For example, a journal can be used to record your recovery-related struggles and accomplishments or to identify – and work through – difficult…

Stateline Retreat in Primm, NV – December 11th 2009 http://recoveredcast.com Check out this episode!

Using books, literature, and other texts as part of a recovery program and are a known intervention for both substance abuse and depression. You may have experienced a moment where you identified with the main character in a story and empathetically experienced their joy when they conquered their obstacle. Or…

James M. from Slidell, LA speaking on the History of AA at the Robbers Roost AA Group’s Back to Basics men’s retreat in Cuyamaca State Park in San Diego, CA Check out this episode!

In our program, it’s our responsibility to make plans. Making plans help us to achieve goals. Goals to improve our well being. Goals to help us be happy, joyous, and free. We are told, it is okay to plan, just that we should be careful not to plan the outcomes.…