This week our intrepid recovery podcast co-host Jason has a tremendous interview with Duane Fletcher – a person in long term recovery with nearly 8 years of continuous sobriety and co-host and co-creator of the Our Recovery Life Video Series on YouTube, which like this here podcast, features incredible recovery stories and recovery topics to inspire and enhance recovery. Duane’s story is an extremely powerful and all too familiar one of childhood instability, abuse, trauma, with a through line of chaos and wicked battle with addiction that even in sobriety proved to be a formidable adversary. Duane shares his story in particularly relatable and down to earth fashion and in a way to that is chalked full of hope for those who are still struggling. Through his remarkable journey to and through addiction and into recovery, Duane gives us plenty of recovery and spiritual wisdom we all can apply to our own recovery so Listen Up.

Best piece of advice: "Build and use your support network. You are not alone!"

Book Recommendation: Big Book- Acceptance is the Key (pg. 417)

Song that reminds Duane of his recovery.-

Slippin'- DMX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ww-TQUeA3E

Best I AM - FLAW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnKCrI6VZjE

Daily practice: My knees hit first ( daily surrender)

Recovery resource: https://na.org/

Check Out Duane on the YouTube channel "Our Recovery Life"

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwTv17wU1i6DtiS8-EQ3ikA

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