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Recovery Internet Radio episodes

  • Roadmap to Success
    On this episode of Recovery Internet Radio, we interview longtime friend and colleague, Gary Fisher. Gary served as Executive Director of Cirque Lodge, a world-class treatment center in Sundance, Utah for over 20 years. We talk about his recovery story, gratitude, opportunity, building and scaling Cirque Lodge, retirement.
    52 min
  • Out of the Fog and into the Light

    Christine grew up in the fog of denial. Neither she nor her family had any awareness or understanding of addiction. A series of unhappy and unhealth relationships led her to her first twelve step meeting. Christine has, over a long and bumpy history faced her codependency and a series of other process addictions. Life in an Ashram and devotion to a Guru accelerated her recovery. Through the twelve steps and her other practices she is living a life of gratitude for life’s lessons.

    46 min
  • The Perfect Suburban Family

    Join as as we speak with our friend, Brenda Napholz. Brenda is a mother who has battled addiction in her family for over ten years. She is the President of The Break, a teen center in Crystal Lake, IL. She is also a Peer Recovery Support Specialist, community activist and champion for young people in the community.  Brenda joins us to talk about her family, transformation, grief, The Break, parenting through addiction and recovery.

    44 min
  • Love Myself More
    It was in the genes, but it hit hard and fast. A natural mother the fear of losing her kids led grudgingly to rehab. Still not believing she had a problem; angry and unhappy she drank again. After getting sober and working a program again for several years her reaction to health problems led to another relapse. Shortly after that relapse she sobered up again but this time with daily meeting and good sponsorship. Meanwhile she manages to finish a master’s degree in counseling and get a job. Diagnosed with cancer in 2020 she drank again but this time she found out about living one day at a time and faced her feeling of valuelessness. She decided that she loved herself more than her old friend alcohol.
    41 min
  • We all need a North Star
    Join us as we talk with our friend Nick about his recovery journey, professional evolution and expereince in the behavioral healthcare industry. Nick runs a treatment facility, has an intimate relationship with recovery and has a real job ahead to imprint his treatment and management style on an existing facility and philosophy. Let’s get an inside look at Nick’s challenges and successes in this competitive arena.
    55 min
  • A Rocky Road
    His story spans decades; his job as an AP photojournalist took him to many places in the country and the world; often gone for weeks. His family missed his presence and his wife and he became increasingly estranged. Her genetics took her to her coping skill of choice; drinking. For years her drinking was hidden until it couldn’t be hidden any longer. She had been a closet drinker, convincing the kids that her drinking was her husband’s fault. Lee felt horribly guilty which led him to find Al Anon which he says today saved his life. Thu, 12 April 2018
    46 min
  • Miracle, Good Values or God Directed Coincidence?
    He grew up in what is now Silicon Valley to a hard working business family. He was always the black sheep but never doubted his strong Catholic roots and excellent parochial education. He would tell you that he was an alcoholic from his first drink but that the disease took a long and winding road. He spent many years running the family business, working 100 hour weeks and trying to raise four kids while doing very little drinking. As the kids grew up and the business learned to run itself Mike took the liberty of reintroducing himself to heavy drinking and within a few years was drinking to stay normal. Whether miracle, good values or God directed coincidence, one momentous night he got on the phone and landed in the lap of Betty Ford. Mike’s been around about 8 years and still has a few wrinkles but he’s working on them.Sun, 5 November 2017
    58 min
  • The Good Girl with Kay G.
    She grew up conservative and religious in a small Texas town. The good girl to the core She always did the right thing and nevvvvver disappointed her Mom. A good education, some grace and maybe a little luck and she was working a dream job and married a dream man. Years later her son got into drugs and landed in rehab which landed Kay in Al Anon A few years later she and her husband divorced but not before he also found recovery. Al Anon started, for Kay a long and difficult path to find her own spiritual path. She and her son laugh together today that his addiction got HER healthy.
    56 min
  • His Mom Passed And Everything Changed
    A second generation Irishman felt the shame from his grandfather’s alcoholism through his Mom. A good kid growing up in a religious family he always looked down on alcoholics and alcoholism. He always thought that if he drank “like that” it would kill his Mom. Irish Catholic guilt kept him out of the booze through college, the Navy and into his early career. Coke and weed were somehow OK but it wasn’t until his Mom died that the wheels came off. He made a run at sobriety through AA after an intervention and lasted almost exactly a year until he “decided to have a drink”. No more than days later laying in a hospital bed not knowing what happened he decided to get serious about sobriety. He’s been “Gung-Ho” ever since.Wed, 20 April 2016
    54 min

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