Transformations Recovery

Happy Holidays! Enjoy our bonus Travel Sober! episode. Roman, Cecily and Daniel talk world travel in sobriety.

Visit Daniel's tattoo shop boartooth.com

Check out Daniels recovery residence here: radlivingrr.com

Please email us with questions or comments at [email protected]

Visit our website www.transformationscare.com

Become our Patreon on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=28772609&fan_landing=true

On today’s episode Roman and Cecily talk with Daniel Werder, owner of Boartooth Tattoo and RAD Living sober house in Sherman Oaks CA. He is a tattoo artist who has toured the world tattooing, and an OG b-boy break dancer, all thanks to getting sober at 19.

Check out Daniel's tattoo shop at boartooth.com

Visit the RAD Living sober house website here radlivingrr.com

“I’m fucking powerless over it. I made the connection when I was fighting with a girlfriend my first year of sobriety. I had been seeing this retaining wall I wanted to tag. And out of nowhere I’m like, I’m gonna go paint that. And like, I didn’t put it together in that moment but... a helicopter came and I ran.... and I got away... it was fuckin’ gnarly. And I got back to the apartment... and I was like, 'that was me checking out from being upset about this girl.' And I made that connection. I had been sober a little bit... it’s funny, it’s, like, a long process right? It’s like, not an event, you don’t just get sober and say like, ‘oh man I’m not, like, dealing with feeling upset about a girl I’m fighting with and I’m painting graffiti to escape.’ I actually want to stop doing that to like actually show up for myself.”

Please email us with questions or comments at [email protected]

Visit our website www.transformationscare.com

Become our patron on Patreon! www.patreon.com

Roman and Cecily meet up with Russel, an advocate of positive thinking, a mentor and motivational speaker, and a survivor of an accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down.

Russel is a mentor and motivational speaker who specializes in helping newly paralyzed people through the Triumph Foundation. Check them out here: triumph-foundation.org

Russel also co-hosts the podcast Talking Sobriety with Colin Morrison. You can listen to that here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talking-sobriety

"Life's too short, you know? We never know what tomorrow will bring us. And the people that are grouches, grumps, and think life sucks-- I'm like, bro, if i can live a good life dude, you can live a good one. No matter what. I don't care what you're going through. Keep your head up and f*ckin' stay positive and you know, there's always a good to a bad."


Please email us with questions or comments at [email protected]

Visit our website www.transformationscare.com

Become our patron on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=28772609&fan_landing=true

Roman and Cecily hang out with Scotty Schmidt aka William S. Hayes. Career thief, skateboarder, and author.

Check out his new book "A Burden of Concrete" released by Punk Hostage Press
https://punkhostagepress.com/burden-of-concrete/

"Even before I'd gotten into it I wanted to be perceived as that dude. You know what I mean? That crazy kinda guy who's like, down for whatever, you know, all that kinda stupid shit. But yeah, when I smoked weed and drank it became like, that was really my gig. You know what I mean? Skateboarding was a blast but i loved, you know, when the night was over and we're fuckin' around that was like, that was really where I was at, you know? That's what I wanted to do was like, you know, that kinda shit.
Till you can acknowledge the fact that drugs and alcohol... that you're fucked, you know what I mean? With that shit... I mean everything's a stepping stone to something else-- if you don't die. You know what I mean? But until that point you're screwed. At least, until that point I'm screwed. You know what I mean?"

Please email us with questions or comments at [email protected]

Visit our website www.transformationscare.com

Become our patron on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=28772609&fan_landing=true

Roman visits Zach on episode 4 of season 2. Zach is a recovering fentanyl addict, former drug dealer, and sexual assault survivor.

"One of my favorite things about just being sober is… now there’s people that don’t even know me for who I was… I used to, you know, I ‘accidentally’ ran guns when I was 18… I am no longer that guy making you strip at knife point in the alley. And it’s like, you wouldn’t know that looking at me today… That’s my favorite part about it. You look at someone who’s a recovered alcoholic, you don’t see them for what they were, you see them for who they are now… One foot stuck in the past, one foot in the future, you’re pissing on today, you know?"

Please email us with questions or comments at [email protected]

Visit our website www.transformationscare.com

Become our Patreon on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=28772609&fan_landing=true

Roman and Cecily sit down with Danielle, OG skater, punk rocker, and addict in recovery. Danielle chronicles her experiences navigating the streets as a young Butch woman doing crime, skating, finding punk rock, and falling in love in LA in the 80s and 90s. 

"They put me with another Butch woman, her name was Cindy and she looked like Fred Flintstone. And across the hallway was my girlfriend and this girl, her name was Faith. She was a 15-year-old prostitute. One day she got fuckin’ caught up real bad with a john and beat the fuck out of and raped. Cindy had a crush on her. Cindy was so sad and like ‘fuck those motherfuckers.’ She’s like, ‘Danielle, you wanna do something with me?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah dude, whatever.’ Cindy came up with this plan to have Faith go and grab johns off Sepulveda, take 'em behind Denny’s and we would wait with baseball bats and when she got their fuckin’ pants down she would go like that and we’d drag them out and beat them and take their wallets and whatever shit they had. We did it to like 40 people before the cops got involved. And then we got busted. But we kinda felt like we took out revenge on these fools, you know?

Please email us with questions or comments at [email protected]

Visit our website www.transformationscare.com

Become our Patreon on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=28772609&fan_landing=tru

Roman and Cecily visit T.S.O.L. singer Jack Grisham at his home in LA to talk long-term sobriety, artistic pursuits, touring while sober, and religion.

"You know, it was crazy. And I'd been doing shit since I was a kid... I ran off with a carny! My family didn't even look for me. And I asked my mom... I go, "remember when I ran off with the carny?" She goes, "Yeah." ... I go, "And uh... you didn't think about callin' the cops?!" She goes, "No. You were different." ... "We knew you'd be back." That's what she said! "We knew you'd be back!" Are you fuckin' kidding me? I was gone for weeks! Man. Livin' under bridges and shit. With some carnival worker. Just, you know... craziness."

Please email us with questions or comments at [email protected]

Visit our website www.transformationscare.com

Become our Patreon on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=28772609&fan_landing=true

Welcome back! In the season 2 premiere our host Roman Cooper is at it again talking homelessness, punk rock, and substance abuse counseling with Sean Romin. Born to a hippy mother who was friends with members of the Manson Family in Southern California, Sean Romin has gone from young drug addict to homeless outreach advocate all while passionately pursuing punk rock as a member of Decry, Schleprock and The Generators. 

“I remember I’d snort a line of meth and I’d literally feel the sense of humanity just leave my body. It just is gone. It just pours out of you and then you’re like, you know, how you are when you’re on substances and you don’t feel… Being able to feel- it’s great! Being able to have emotions, being able to cry… and to be able to put that in your music. Because, you know, if you can’t feel the emotion, then how can you put in in your music? You can’t.”

Reach out with questions or comments by emailing us at [email protected]

Visit our website at www.transformationscare.com

Visit the Transformations Recovery Podcast’s Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=28772609&fan_landing=true

Learn more about what Sean Romin does by clicking on these inspiring links below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEk-34dCaEE

https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-meth-homeless-20190629-story.html

https://abc7.com/homeless-outreach-shelter-los-angeles/5290005/

In episode 12, the season finale, Roman and Sammy interview Trip. Trip tells us his epic tale of transformation which began in India. During his teenage years in Calcutta, he experienced revolutionary unrest. He went on to volunteer at Mother Teresa's Home for the Dying. He was given shock treatment as an attempt to cure his addiction, and on his way to one of the first Indian rehabilitation centers shot heroin in the Bengal Tiger Reserve. Trip's recovery crosses continents, his story of transformation asserts that all addicts can relate to the same feelings of desperation regardless of where they are in the world.

www.transformationscare.com

www.patreon.com/TransformationsRecoveryPodcast

Roman and Cecily say thanks to everyone who has participated. Your stories of Transformation are inspiring and AMAZING! Another big thanks to our listeners and everyone who is sharing, rating and reviewing, it means a lot to us.