RAW Recovery Podcast

In recovery, we don’t heal alone — we heal together. Finding your tribe means finding the people who walk beside you, challenge you, call you on your BS, celebrate your wins, and remind you who you truly are.

Your tribe isn’t always your family. It’s not always your old friends. It’s the people who share your experience, speak your language, and help you grow — spiritually, emotionally, and honestly.

Today we talk about how to recognize the people who belong on your journey… and how to gently release the ones who don’t.

No one trudges alone.

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In recovery, not every emotional reaction is a resentment — and not every painful memory is “just trauma.” But we mix the two up all the time.

A resentment is usually about anger, ego, expectations, and old wounds we keep feeding.

One needs inventory.

Today we talk about how to tell the difference, how each one affects our recovery, and why mislabeling trauma as a resentment can actually do more harm than good.

We’ll dig into:

Not everything that hurts is a resentment.

This is about clarity — and freedom.

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Live and Let Live” sounds simple, but for alcoholics it’s one of the hardest spiritual principles to practice. We want to control everything — outcomes, people, opinions, emotions… all of it.

But recovery teaches us that peace comes when we stop running other people’s lives and start focusing on our own.

Today we’re talking about what “Live and Let Live” actually means in daily recovery:

When we stop trying to control the world, we finally get to live in it.

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There comes a point in recovery where we stop living in a world of spiritual make-believe and start living in spiritual reality. The Big Book tells us that the childish dream world we once clung to is replaced by a deep sense of purpose and a growing awareness of God working in our lives.

But that awareness isn’t meant to lift us out of the world — it’s meant to prepare us for service in it.

“Keep your head in the clouds with Him, but your feet firmly planted on earth.”

That’s where our fellow travelers are. That’s where the work is. And that’s where usefulness and spiritual sanity meet.

Today we talk about the balance between spiritual experience and real-life responsibility — and how grounding our recovery in purpose keeps us sane, useful, and connected.

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In recovery, we love to complicate things. We overthink, overwork, overreact, and try to control everything. But the solution has always been the same: Keep it simple.

When we strip away the drama, fear, and ego, the basics still work — meetings, honesty, service, prayer, and staying connected. The moment we drift into chaos, it’s usually because we stopped doing the simple things that keep us grounded.

Today we talk about getting back to basics, slowing down, and remembering that recovery isn’t complicated… we are.

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In the Big Book, we’re told flat-out: “Selfishness—self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles.”

Most of us didn’t get sober because we were living selfless lives. We got sober because our self-will ran straight into a brick wall — and took everyone around us with it.

Today we dig into the truth that no alcoholic likes to face:

Self-will.

When we’re in self, everything hurts. When we’re in God, everything changes.

In this episode we explore:

When we stop making everything about us, life gets a whole lot cleaner.

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Principle Nine — Justice — isn’t about punishment, score-keeping, or trying to make life “fair.”

Justice in the spiritual sense means:

When alcohol ruled our lives, fairness went out the window. We hurt people, we lied, we hid, we manipulated, and we told ourselves we were the victims.

Principle Nine calls us to grow up spiritually — to show up in the world in a way that reflects integrity, humility, and accountability.

Today we’re talking about how justice shows up in our recovery:

Justice isn’t about perfection — it’s about becoming someone trustworthy again, one day at a time.

Keep trudging.

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In today’s episode, Dion sits down with Stacy, founder of Sands of Hope Recovery, for one of the most honest and heartfelt conversations we’ve had on this show. Stacy shares the story behind her recovery business—named in honor of her mother—and opens up about how prevention, lived experience, and compassion shape the way she supports people in recovery.

We dive deep into:

Why recovery coaching matters more than ever

The reality of growing up around alcoholism and dysfunction

Why prevention for youth is critical—and where education takes over

What a recovery coach is and is not

The importance of meeting people where they’re at

Why connection—not control—is the opposite of addiction

How to spot red flags and avoid the wrong “recovery community”

Tough love vs. real love

Why lived experience often outruns formal training

How Stacy keeps her services affordable ($25–$55) with a free consult

If you’re looking for real talk—not sugarcoated, not clinical, but truth from people who have lived it—this conversation is for you.

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👉 If you’re struggling, or you’re not sure where to turn, reach out.

As Dion says: “If you found me, or you found Stacy, God’s trying to tell you something. We’re the last house on the block.”

Thank you for listening.

We all walk into recovery carrying wounds — some we caused, some caused by others, and some we’ve kept alive far longer than necessary. The real spiritual work begins when we stop spreading the hurt and start becoming instruments of healing.

Inspired by the spirit of the St. Francis prayer (without the religious packaging), today we talk about what it really means to bring peace where there is conflict, forgiveness where there is resentment, and love where there is fear.

This isn’t about being perfect — it’s about being willing.

Join me as we dig into:

If you’ve been hurting, or hurting others without meaning to, this one’s for you.

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