Better Life in Recovery

In this episode we ask Randy Anderson 10 Questions about his recovery. Randy Anderson is the Region 5 Leader for the Recovery Advocacy Project, co-founder at MinnesotaRecovers, a recovery coach at Bold North Recovery and Consulting as well as a person in long-term recovery!

In this podcast Josh and David talk about Fear and how it is a liar. We talk about how fear stops us from making the changes we need to make an order to live our very best lives in recovery.

David and Josh are both people in long term-recovery and they both know a thing about relationships. David has been married for almost 10 years and Josh has been in a relationship for almost 10 minutes (Just kidding, but it is a new relationship and one he has waited to get into). We talk about relationships and recovery, myths and truths and many other things as attempt to stay on topic and we fail miserably at it.

On this episode we have 10 Questions with Chris Robbins. Chris is a professional peer support specialist II at the community counseling center in SE Missouri. He is also a father, husband, advocate and person in long term recovery.

In this podcast, Josh Lien joins David to talk about the term Hope Dealer and what it means, that you are an overcomer who shares their strength, experience and hope with others. This is the first topic podcast Josh is joining David on, so please let us know what you think of this format; two people who are all over the place discussing a topic instead of one person who is all over the place doing it.

In this podcast we talk to Josh Lien, a former personal trainer who is now the Peer Engagement Specialist at the Springfield Recovery Community Center. His story is one of early substance use, building an amazing life and then losing it later in life when it all spiraled out of control. He will also be sitting in with me on future topic podcasts, so here’s Josh!

Chad Sabora is one of the countries leading experts on harm reduction, while I am not so, we sat down for a discussion about harm reduction. I struggle with some of the concepts, and felt that Chad was a great person to help me get some clarity and better insight on harm reduction. I hope this gives some of you a better understanding of what harm reduction is, because in the end, dead people never find recovery and harm reduction keeps many people alive and healthy long enough to find recovery.

Kristi Booth is a person in long-term recovery who was recently introduced to harm reduction at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference in St Louis. Since then, she has been on fire, starting a harm reduction meeting in her community and so much more. Hear her describe her journey of substance use into recovery.

Kristi Booth is a person in long-term recovery who was recently introduced to harm reduction at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference in St Louis. Since then, she has been on fire, starting a harm reduction meeting in her community and so much more. I am, as I like to say, too recovery for the harm reduction people and too harm reduction for the recovery people. This is our conversation.

After many years of active substance use, Robert and Cynthia share what has helped them attain and maintain their recovery while building an amazing life together.