One Day at a Time: In Recovery in Baltimore

One Day at a Time: In Recovery in Baltimore

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One Day at a Time: In Recovery in Baltimore episodes

  • Living The Unspeakable: A Conversation With Robert Kanter

    Today, Robert Kanter is an international recovery and family advocate. When he talks about addiction, he speaks from experience. At one point, Robert's drug and alcohol use had destroyed his life. After he recovered, he almost lost his daughter to an overdose. Robert talks with Theo about his family's own journey and the work he does now to support other families suffering from addiction.

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    22 min
  • I Didn't Know How To Stop: Elaine's Story
    Fun and freedom went hand in hand with marijuana and LSD for Elaine when she was a teenager. Then came the amphetamines, which her doctor prescribed for a weight issue. Add to the mix alcohol, and then heroin, and Elaine found herself locked into a 30-year cycle of addiction. Elaine is clean today, and she talks with Theo about what keeps her that way.

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    13 min
  • Life Starts Showing Up: Mary’s Story
    Mary felt invisible when she was a kid. She was a middle child in a family preoccupied by multiple illnesses. She knows now that she was clinically depressed, but at the time, all she knew was that illicit drugs provided her some relief. After years of addiction, she got clean, had a good job, and a family, but a relapse threw her into a tailspin. She’s starting over now, again, with 20 months clean, and she talks with Theo about the highs and lows of her ongoing struggle.

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    18 min
  • That Moment of Clarity: A conversation with Rodney James
    At the beginning of each day, Rodney James says, "I'm going to save someone's life today." Rodney works as a peer recovery coach at Saint Agnes Health Institute, steering others onto the path of recovery. He's traveled that path himself. Rodney talks with Theo about denial, shifting blame, relapse, and the importance of surrounding yourself with people who have your best interests at heart.

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    17 min
  • There's Only One Drug You Can't Do: Mike's Testimonial
    Mike was introduced to alcohol by his older siblings and their friends at a party, and he fell in love. From there, it was on to illegally prescribed pills, until Mike's addiction almost destroyed his liver and brought him to the brink of death. Mike got clean, but he relapsed after 14 years. He's in recovery again today, and he shares his experience, including his daily mantra: There’s only one drug you can't do: The first one.

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    13 min
  • I Died a Spiritual Death: Jack's Journey
    Jack was introduced to heroin at age nineteen. At the time, he was behind bars serving a prison sentence. He talks with Theo about the early manifestations of his addictive personality, his multiple incarcerations, and the progression of his disease over three decades.Jack's moment of clarity came only after he'd hurt those closest to him and ended up alone and invisible to the world around him. That's when he finally embraced his higher power, learned humility, and began to turn his life around.

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    17 min
  • Lost in the music and the lights: Nina’s story
    Nina was a college graduate with a successful corporate job. She was also bipolar and abusing alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine. Things came to a head when she lost her job, foreclosed on her house, and crashed her car. Intensive outpatient therapy gave Nina a new start, and she talks with Theo about lessons learned and the challenges and joys of living clean.

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    13 min
  • The Gift of Desperation, A Conversation with Al
    Theo and his guest, Al, originally met over a chessboard when they were incarcerated. Today, they’re both addiction recovery veterans who are passing along their wisdom and experience to a younger generation. In this episode, Al speaks with Theo about stubbornness, suicidal ideations, and what he calls, ‘The gift of desperation.’

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    16 min
  • I Use Pain as an Asset: Truth from Todd
    Theo’s guest, Todd, talks about the crutch of denial, the importance of staying humble, and the cold truth that recovering addicts just might have to work harder than other people to make a life for themselves.As Todd says, ‘The bigger the dream, the harder the grind.’

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    17 min
  • An Inward Journey: A Conversation with Warren
    Theo talks with Warren, whose addictions progressed through alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and ultimately heroin. Today, Warren is a certified addiction counselor, and he shares his experiences and offers words of wisdom about learning how to let go and surrender to the recovery process.

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    19 min

About One Day at a Time: In Recovery in Baltimore

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Host Theo Hill brings an interesting background to this podcast about addiction and recovery. He's been in recovery himself for 19 years now, after struggling with a heroin addiction for much of his life. Today, Theo drives a truck for a living and also works as a certified counselor at Alcohol and Drug Intervention (ADI) in Glen Burnie.