Now available on Youtube is this week's all new episode of the Recovery Matters Podcast featuring Dubliner Ruth Riddick, CCAR Recovery Coach professional and founder of Sobriety Together.----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

CCAR Department of Corrections Program Recovery Coach Rich Walsh takes the seat this week as he talks about the following topics: 👶 his upbringing 💵 his many hustles to make a living 💰 🔫🚗🌴 the time he was involved in a drug deal gone bad that almost cost him his life 🚨🚔👮‍♂️ prison time 🏨 his road to recovery …and so much more! ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

In Part 2 of his two-part interview, Jamie “THE BEAR” McDonald, owner of Bear's Smokehouse BBQ, discusses drinking, how his dog saved his life, and time spent at The Lighthouse Bali treatment center in Bali, Indonesia + so much more! ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

This week on the Recovery Matters podcast we have Jamie “Bear” McDonald, a Navy vet, former engineer and ex-pro competitive eater. In 2013 McDonald used his prize money from the wing bowl to buy a smoker and open up his first Bear's Smokehouse BBQ location. In Part 1 of his 2-part interview, he opens about what it was like growing up, his time in the navy, and dealing with bulimia for 20+ years, which then led to his competitive eating. ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Unity Recovery, Platinum Sponsor for #MPRCFL2022, was founded to be an inclusive recovery community organization and drop-in center for everyone. Executive Director Robert Ashford joins Phil & Sandy Valentine on this week's all new Recovery Matters Podcast!----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Dimitri was raised as a Greek Orthodox. At the age of 10 he lived in Greece where people were more liberal when it came to alcohol and drinking in general. By 11 years old, having a beer was a regular thing for him. He moved back to the states eventually and by freshman year of high school, he got into “party drugs” which eventually led to smoking crack/cocaine and an addiction to heroin after his time in prison. Robyn Bakes, Dimitri’s wife, through the ups and downs, never gave up on Dimitri during his various relapses. She was an instrumental part of Dimitri’s recovery journey. Hear Dimitri’s story on this weeks episode of the Recovery Matters podcast.----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

As the former Program Director for the Yale University Department of Psychiatry, Daryl was contracted to serve as the Director of the Office of Recovery Community Affairs for the State of Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. He has experience in the areas of policy development, contract management and project coordination, as well as collaborating with grassroots peer-advocacy agencies and the CT Department of Corrections. Mr. McGraw is a community organizer, activist and philanthropist. He serves on several boards involving re-entry and criminal justice reform in the state of Connecticut. He consults with law enforcement, universities, policy makers, behavioral health and addiction treatment facilities who are looking to expand their knowledge and expertise in the area of criminal justice reform. He is an integral part of leadership decisions for these agencies and organizations. As a leadership consultant, Mr. McGraw inspires cultural competency and challenges organizations to move away from the status quo. ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

This week we have Rabbi Ilan Glazer on the show to talk about his journey through life and recovery. He brings a unique perspective on being Jewish and the hurdles that exist in the Jewish community. His is a story of faith, family, food, caregiving, nature, spirituality, and much more. Join us as we talk with Ilan!----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Trey Laird is in the studio this week sharing his story and the mission of The Lighthouse and their recovery services. His choice to recover out loud and be an inspirational voice in the recovery movement comes through in this discussion. He touches on his drive to fill in gaps that exist in recovery support services and talks about the journey to a new life living happily in sobriety.----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Leigh Stepanian drops by the studio to talk with Phil and Sandy and they take all of us along for a journey in recovery. We travel from early days at school into a life hooked on a laundry list of substances. Finally a car crash at 27 years old led Leigh to a recovery community and in turn the eventual realization that there are multiple pathways of recovery, all of which can be used to walk, run, or climb along our path to freedom. Come along and listen. ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

This week we have a special guest host Rebecca Allen who is the director of recovery advocacy here at CCAR. Phil and Rebecca have Michael Serrano back in the studio to talk about Recovery, his work here at CCAR, and about hosting the Spanish language recovery podcast La Recuperacion Importa. The story brings us through Michael's close call with death and continues through to the hope and healing of recovery. Join us for this powerful conversation.----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

This week we walk along the path of life with Maysha Zakrevskyy. From her youth in Brooklyn through school and adult life. Recovering from a substance use disorder to be faced with a cancer diagnosis, Maysha has been able to live life on life's terms while staying sober and connected to her community. This episode is another testimony to the power, hope, and healing of recovery. ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Amanda sits down to tell her story and talk about the journey that brought her to recovery. The lesson in this one is clear. Never stop reaching for recovery. Ten times a charm in this case, so join us as the story unfolds and Amanda transforms into a recovery resource for people traveling on their path and facing the prospects of moving past a substance use disorder. ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Robin Clare reaches into the heart of her recovery and opens the door to the divine in this discussion. Robin shares how writing became a tool for recovery and how her life was changed. From the very beginning this brings the audience into the conversation and sits us in the room as Phil, Sandy, and Robin discuss the connections that open the door to healing. Join us for a discussion that is riveting from start to finish. ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Editor's note - This was a fun one to record! I love hearing Phil and Sandy's discussions with guests but these solo episodes give a chance to hear two distinct voices in a thoughtful discussion on a topic. Phil brings the perspective of a person with decades of work with people in recovery and Sandy brings insight as a person working directly with students in recovery. Together they bring another great discourse with ample food for thought.    ----Across the Web----🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO...🗣Recovery Matters TikTokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast?🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Domenick talks about the false relief of substance use and how that rocketed him into a life ruled by a substance use disorder. Homeless and almost frozen to death he kept moving forward until one July 4th brought surrender and finally freedom. Once sobriety became a way of living he made the effort to share this gift with others.  ----Across the Web----🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO...🗣Recovery Matters TikTokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast?🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

This week Phil and Sandy have Herb "Half Crow" Boyd in the studio to talk about his life and the path that brought him to recovery and recovery coaching. Herb's story touches on being a veteran, a member of the Mashantucket Pequot tribe, and a person of color, and gives a voice to these groups but also has a universal message for everyone. Recovery is possible and we can help others on their path. ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

This week Phil and Sandy Welcome Greg Williams to the podcast and discuss his story of recovery. Greg's story leads us through getting into recovery before his 18th birthday, learning to listen, finding a vibrant community, and then finding his voice through film making and recovery advocacy. His journey sheds light on flaws in the support offered for people wrestling with substance use disorders and brings a voice to the questions of how to continue on a path to improvement. ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

This week Phil and Sandy talk with Scott Strode, the founder and executive director of The Phoenix. This story of Recovery tracks the crash, burn, and resurrection of a life that climbs past the wreckage of substance use disorder and builds a movement focused on building community, erasing stigma, and changing lives for the better. ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Don Fertman joins us as our guest on this episode of the Recovery Matters! #podcast. Music man, current Board Chair of the Phoenix, and former Subway Chief Development Officer, Don hasn't had a drink or a drug since June 6, 1983. The group talks about the place of music in life and in recovery, Don's appearance on the TV show "Undercover Boss", how Don promotes recovery, and much more!!----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

CCAR Emergency Department Recovery Coach (EDRC), Zach Lewin, joins our hosts on episode 41 of the Recovery Matters! podcast. Zach shares about growing up in a small CT shoreline town with a loving family and how he even chose to be sober for a time while in high school. But as Zach explains, addiction doesn't discriminate and we're shown how the descent into a life and death struggle with substance use can come on fast and hard. From straight edge, to victim of the opioid crisis, and finally to a life in recovery working as an EDRC - Zach's story is one defined by extremes.----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Episode 40! Phil and Sandy are joined by CCAR Recovery Coach Manager for the Department of Corrections Program, Brian McManus. Brian shares an amazing story that shows the destructive power of alcohol as well as the redemptive power of Recovery. Early red flags regarding drinking, his family's immigration to the US from Ireland, a successful career as a lawyer, a federal prison sentence, Recovery, and a new career spreading the message of hope through service to returning citizens...Brian goes deep and shows us the winding path that brought him to where he is today!----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Returning for his second appearance on the podcast, ORCA Project Manager, Kevin Carmignani joins Phil and Sandy on this episode. The Ocean Recovery Community Alliance (ORCA) will celebrate its' one-year anniversary at the end of July 2021. Kevin chats with our hosts about some of the accomplishments this service-based initiative has realized in its first year, the surfing lifestyle, and...naturally, about his recovery! ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Phil and Sandy are joined on this episode by 10-year CCAR employee, Hartford Recovery Community Center Manager, Virginia Adams. Virginia explains how moving from school-to-school when she was younger led to an unsuccessful search for self that drew her into substance use and all the unmanageability that comes with it. A story of finding ones identity, meeting life's challenges, and finding peace through creativity, service, and Recovery! ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Our guest on this episode is Dr. Haner Hernández. He is a person in long-term recovery who has had an illustrious career, spanning more than three decades, that has included teaching at various universities, working directly and in a consulting capacity for state and federal agencies, performing one-on-one recovery support, and so much more. We hear about the racism Haner encountered at a young age when his mother moved their family to Springfield, MA and how his youth informed his later work. Dr. Hernández goes on to discuss gang life, substance use, exposure to the prison system, finding recovery, and some of the amazing work he has done over his long career. This episode brings it all; an inspiring first-hand account of street life, drug use, and recovery, exploration of racial and economic disparities, and the story of a person finding their voice! ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Joining our hosts on this episode is a man heading into his 46th year of Recovery, Phil's sponsor, Rick P. Rick shares some real wisdom; he opens up and shares openly about the most spiritual moments of his life and the most painful. An intense discussion that sheds light on the different and, perhaps, generationally varying perceptions of recovery and addiction. We’re treated to a vulnerable and honest exploration of what recovery looks like, what it is, and what it can be to each of us. ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Phil and Sandy are joined on this episode by Kevin Shuler, CCAR's Emergency Department Recovery Coach Manager. What follows is an amazing discussion that will make you laugh and perhaps shed a tear. A picture of a life and a story of becoming; substance intervenes, and as is so often the case, we hear how pain and suffering forge the best version of ourselves when we pursue recovery. ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Our hosts are joined on this episode by CCAR Recovery Coach for the Safety Net program, Carmen Bravo! Carmen shares her truth in a casual, yet humble, recounting of the severe tribulations she experienced when active that ultimately guided her to recovery and the person she is today. The Safety Net program pairs CCAR Recovery Coaches with Yale EMT's. ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Phil and Sandy are joined on this very real episode by Manchester Recovery Community Center Manager, Cathy Bergren. Cathy gives a picture of how our experiences shape us and, in some cases, can lead to a life defined by substance use. We hear about the progressive nature of its' influence and how it can take us to places we wish it didn't. But Cathy also shows us that being brought to those dark places can show us a pathway to the brightest and beautiful of lives. ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

This episode of the Recovery Matters! podcast features Phil and Sandy connecting alone, getting really vulnerable and honest. Together, they explore the in's-and-outs of their marriage, their thirty years together, their family, and their personal recovery.----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Our hosts are joined on this episode by Windham Recovery Community Center Manager, John Schwartz. John takes us on a wild ride by getting vulnerable and honest. From growing up in an affluent community where domestic disputes were the norm at home, to playing in a band with Rick James, speed-balling and maintaining a successful culinary career...this discussion checks all the boxes. Ultimately the trip ends as a testament to the amazing transformative power of recovery!----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

CCAR Emergency Department Recovery Coach, Mindy Richardson, joins our hosts on this episode. She shares about early run-in's with the law and becoming a mother at a young age. Mindy goes on to explain how the need to earn and support herself drew her to the fast-money street lifestyle, which ultimately came to overtake her life and led to addiction. Despite many attempts to maintain recovery and a prolonged struggle with DCF, Mindy shares how she found recovery and got her family back. A beautiful picture of the power of persistence, hope, and the redemptive power of recovery!----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Our guest on this episode is Adventure Recovery founder, Tim Walsh. Tim shares how an early family tragedy led to headlong experimentation with substance use and a youth defined by anger, rebelliousness, and wandering. Ultimately, he realized the need for change and found Recovery twenty-nine years ago. We hear how he came to find solace and connection in nature, leading to the realization that immersion in nature can serve as a pathway of recovery. A story of adventure, discovery, and multiple pathways of recovery! ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Joining our hosts on this episode is Shannon Egan, a woman in long-term recovery and a multiple time, award-winning grant writer and marketing and communications professional. Shannon covers everything from growing up in a Mormon family in Utah to working as journalist in Sudan and the struggle with substance that followed her on her journey. An exciting discussion that spans the globe, shedding light on the search for self and the desire to live our truth. ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

This episode features CCAR's Director of Recovery Support Services, Rebecca Allen. She shares about her seemingly innocent discovery of substances, in the form of cigarettes, and how addiction asserted itself into her life and the life of her family. A concise picture of how substance can slowly come to characterize our life, no matter where we come from, replacing the healthy passions and things that truly matter to us. Rebecca goes on to discuss how she overcame a severe heroin addiction, the high cost it exacted on her life, and how she came to be Director of Recovery Support Services at one the nation's leading Recovery Community Organizations.----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

CCAR Communications Manager, Tom Russo, joins our hosts on this episode. Tom shares how exposure to substance use and criminality gradually came to define his own behavior and his life. We hear the story of a person who was able to evade consequences for some time until the consequences he received put his life on hold, culminating in a four year prison sentence. A moving depiction of what "wearing the mask" can do to a person and the healing that follows once we re-discover the best parts of ourselves through the recovery process. ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Our hosts are joined on this episode by mother and daughter, Naetha Uren and Calliese Connor, CCAR Trainers who operate out of the UK. We hear the story of family recovery that spans generations and an ocean. A beautiful, honest, and enlightening picture of a family recovering in different stages - supporting one another, overcoming barriers, and establishing boundaries. Naetha and Calliese go on to discuss the circumstances in England that drove them to join CCAR's international team of trainers, bringing the Recovery Coach Academy and other recovery coach trainings to audiences in the UK. ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

CCAR Emergency Department Recovery Coach, Barry Richardson, joins our hosts on this episode. Barry has worked with CCAR for two-plus years, serving more than 1,000 individuals in hospital Emergency Departments across Connecticut. Here, Barry shares his story of becoming, growing up in the North Carolina countryside and how the attraction to an addictive lifestyle and a long search for self started at a young age. Barry goes on to discuss service in the Navy, the social acceptance of alcohol and his addiction to cocaine, how he found his way into fifteen years of recovery and a life defined by service to others, and the skills he uses as an Emergency Department Recovery Coach.----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

CCAR Department of Corrections Recovery Coach, Melissa McGee, joins our hosts on this episode for a hard-hitting discussion that documents the progressive nature of the disease of addiction and the amazing redemptive power of recovery. Melissa gets vulnerable about her struggles with alcohol and coping with the challenges of life and how she moved from the darkness of addiction into the light of recovery. ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

CCAR's Special Events Manager and Recovery Ally, Amy Albanese, joins our hosts for this episode to talk about her passion for creating special moments for others and how Recovery has been a recurring theme in her life. Amy explains how recreational use, addiction, and its' consequences stayed on the periphery of her life for some time. She goes on to discuss how she became an avid supporter of the recovery movement upon being suddenly immersed in the recovery lifestyle when she came to be employed at CCAR. A wonderful reflection from a true recovery ally! ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Our hosts are joined this episode by CCAR Emergency Department Recovery Coach Program Manager, Jennifer Chadukiewicz. She shares how the disease of addiction came for her at a young age but also how recovery found her shortly after at the age of eighteen. What follows is the story of an adventurous life in recovery defined by family, service, and living life on life's terms. ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Our hosts are joined on this episode by CCAR's Emergency Department Recovery Coach (EDRC) Program Coordinator, Regina McGarrah. A woman who exudes positivity, hope, humility, and calm, Regina shares how progressive mental and physical health issues produced an addiction to increasingly stronger opiates prescribed to her by her doctor. She explains how these amazing challenges left her homebound for fifteen years and how on March 19, 2004 she came out of the house and decided to seek Recovery. A story of persistence against all odds and a story of strength and hope that speaks to the deeply redemptive power of Recovery to help us overcome even the most difficult challenges life can hand us. ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Emergency Department Recovery Coach, Guy Brenan, joins our hosts on this episode. Guy has known our hosts for many years but we hear a story of divergent life paths. Guy documents the progressive nature of the disease of addiction and how it can come upon us incrementally, without us realizing quite where it is taking us. Love, maintaining, addiction, responsibility, incarceration, redemption. We're treated to a picture of community and familial interactions and how our personal lives can contrast with our public ones, even among people who have known us for many years. ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

An amazing discussion featuring our host's daughter, Samantha, appearing virtually from Kenya while on a mission trip. We hear a story of faith and adventure, defined by finding ones purpose through service to others. An exploration of the benefits of being born to parents in Recovery, parental influence versus ones own natural becoming, faith versus religion, families growing together, and much more. ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

In this episode, our hosts Phil and Sandy dig into the subject of codependency in their relationship and in general. A meditation on human interaction, what we expect from one another, and how we see ourselves versus how others see us. ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

We're joined on this episode by Zachary Green, a person in recovery and staff member of the UConn Recovery Community. First prescribed ADHD medication and Xanax at the age of 13, Zach shares how a career as a chef in New Orleans carried him into a life defined by substance. From New Orleans kitchens, deep involvement in selling drugs, picking up opiates, and working in the Colorado cannabis industry, we hear the story a man finding his way out of the darkness into the light of a life in Recovery. ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Our guest for this show is New Haven Recovery Community Center Manager, Rita Natale. A story of becoming and how different events guide our life's trajectory. Rita gets real about some painful events early in life that led to a search for self and how that search led to substance use. Rita's story shows that when we try to fill a spiritual hole with substance, it leaves us needing something more. After finding Recovery on August 24, 1989, Rita explains what that "more" looks like to her and how it defined the rest of her life. ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery

Maggie Young, MSW, LADC joins us on this episode for a gut-punch of a discussion that takes us from the vicious racism of 1950's Alabama to Maggie's search for her self when her family moved to New England. We hear of the seemingly innocent descent into addiction that progressed to the street life and dealings with the criminal justice system. Ultimately, we are treated to a story of glorious redemption found in a life of recovery and of the long and beautiful career of Maggie Young. She has worked in addiction prevention, residential treatment, and outpatient treatment services for more than 25 years and is currently serving as Chief Recovery Officer of Liberation Programs Inc. Learn more about Maggie and Liberations here: https://www.liberationprograms.org/ ----Across the Web---- 🌎 CCAR Website https://www.ccar.us ✉️ Donate: https://ccar.us/donate/ 🎙Recovery Matters Podcast (Apple Music): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎙RecoveryMatters Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1wGUMMO... 🗣Recovery Matters TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@recoverymatterspodcast? 🗣Recovery Matters Instagram https://www.instagram.com/recoverymatterspodcast/ 🗣CCAR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCAR4Recovery 📸CCAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccar4recovery 🐦CCAR Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccar4recovery