This week, we look at secrets and lies. What happens if we relapse and try to hide it from our nearest and dearest? What happens when we try and hide it around the rooms? Why lie about having a sponsor or not? Every secret and every lie undermines the process of recovery, unless we fess up. Needless to say, we also have cats talking about toupees...

This week, we're talking about dishonesty and its myriad effects in and around the rehab process. We also take a look at 'Blamethrowing', at the perils of shirking responsibility and at how our working lives suffer in active addiction.

This week, we look at the perils of railroading straight into making big decisions in early recovery, and we ask whether we can end up doing 'too many meetings'. We also have the second part of our interview with Michael, and we're talking about the use of TikTok in recovery, among other things...

This week, in the first part of our interview with Michael, we talk about maintaining and managing recovery through lockdown. We also look at how friends and family can misinterpret or misunderstand what we mean by abstinence in recovery, and at how relapse affects a rehab environment.

This week we look at dishonesty, specifically in the first few months, and the lengths to which people will go to sustain a fake recovery. Also, we're looking at how people in early recovery respond to relapse in one another. We discuss 'Cooking (or the lack of it) Under The Influence'. and last but not least, we finally meet two of the Daltons...

This week we're looking at control, and the ways in which dishonesty and collusion combine. Also, we see how dishonesty and lying are not necessarily the same thing. And we're talking about Drunk Sport, with particular reference to village cricket. Meanwhile, our AlACats continue in their quest to be rid of The Dalton Twins, all three of them...

This week we look at how we manage our social calendar in recovery, alluding to how we didn't have one or didn't manage in addiction. Also, we look at the avoidance of responsibility and the consequences of dishonesty during the treatment process. And last but not least, is Norman's robot going to be of any use to Reg, or any of the cats?

In the second half of my interview with Rachel, we're talking about how she found rehabilitation, and how sticking with it produced extraordinary results. Some of these results are to be expected, but many are not!

How we watched what we watched, drunk; and now, how we watch what we watch sober. We also look at family dynamics around rehab and there's more on the denial associated with relapse. Meanwhile, the AlACats are shocked in action by the imminent threat of The Dalton Twins, all three of them?!?

Today I'm with Rachel, who I met in rehab over four years ago and we're both still here! She talks about how her journey began, how things have changed and progressed since leaving treatment, the things she has back in her life, and the new avenues she has been able to explore clean and sober.