Since Right Now

"I had to take a water bottle filled with vodka with me just to get through the day."—Jane on getting through the day.

Jane is @yujachingu on Twitter

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Image: drink me [remix by K+S] / 2009 / Team Dalog / CC via Flickr / https://www.flickr.com/photos/thedalogs/3276228160/in/photolist-5Zvwuq

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"(The relationship) helped me realize just how edgy, dark and hard I wasn't."—Chris on being in over his head.

Jeff listened to @thishomepod Ep.22: The Shockers and thought we should try it.

Not sure it went as planned.

Apologies to Laura and Holly for jackin' yer steez. Poorly.

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Image: Photo of a Perry Farrell sculpture from the cover of Jane's Addction album, Nothing's Shocking / 1988. Used without permission. Crop & color by K+S

"I'm not always 'happy, joyous and free.' I'd be bullshitting you if I said that was the case."—Mary on living in recovery.

Please, visit Mary

here: http://marykillian.com

here: http://highwiregirl.blogspot.com

and/or

here: http://www.amazon.com/Roustabout-Heart-Adventures-Recovery/dp/0996589007/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1448451547&sr=8-1&keywords=the+roustabout+heart

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"I don't know how I'm gonna do it…but I can't do *this* anymore."—Sondra

The Unruffled / http://www.TheUnruffled.com

Sondra on Twitter / @NaughtApropos

Sondra on The Recovery Revolution / http://www.sincerightnow.com/search?q=Sondra%20Primeaux

Credits

Cover: Sondra Primeaux Original shot by Sondra

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Please, visit us at TheRecoveryRevolution.Online

See you next year!

/fist-bump-sparkle-explosion

Shaggy, Professor & Ol' Dirty Blue Eyes

"I remember thinking in my drunken stupor—and quickly suppressing (the thought)—that I had an issue."—Chris on Since Right Now

Show notes:

Take notes. Use Google.

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"Some people miss the bottom." — Aaron on SRN

The enormously talented Aaron Lee Perry of SobrSoldier.com (and recent cover feature on TheRecoveryRevolution.Online) stops by Since Right Now Pod to chat with the Recovery Renegades.

Skull Illustration by Aaron Lee Perry for TheRecoveryRevolution.Online

"My recovery evolves all the time. It's important for me to give back what I have received."—Nicola on SRN

@nicola-o-hanlon has been in recovery since January 23rd 2010. She is the Editor of the new online magazine ILoveRecovery.com Café, which is part of the InTheRooms.com blogging community.

Her work has been published in several recovery magazines, including Recovery Today, In Recovery Magazine, AfterParty Magazine, Psychology Today and Reach Out Recovery to name but a few. She is an activist and passionate about social justice and human rights. Most recently she has had stories published in Hearts and Scars – 10 Human Stories of Addiction, and the Girl God series of books about Feminine Divinity.

Born and raised in Wexford, Ireland she still lives there with her two children, Christopher and Jessica. She is also a Massage Therapist, Reflexologist and Sechiem Energy Healer. Already an expert on how not to live life she is a constant seeker of new and better ways of being. Nature is her Higher Power and she believes in magic, crystals and blames the phases of the moon for her multi-personalities.

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Cover: A Nymph in the Forest / Lenoir / public domain

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"You were a master of self-sabotage."—Tim

Tim, a normie, has know Chris for over two decades. He has seen Chris at his worst in active addiction and he was the first person to see Chris on the other side of his self-styled rehab.

Here he sheds some light on the before, during and after.

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Intro/Cover Art: N*ggas in Paris by Jay-Z & Kanye West

"Fu*k Ram Dass."—Chris on SRN

Nothing you know about anything is right and everything you know about everything is right.

This is an episode where it is highly recommended that you take what you can and leave the rest.

Read for upcoming https://soundcloud.com/youre-killing-me:

The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn / http://amzn.com/1250069602

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