RECO12
An Addiction Recovery Lunch-hour Speaker Meeting. A new guest speaker with at least 1 year sobriety from any addiction, and who is actively working in recovery, will speak for 25 minutes each week on a specific recovery topic. This will be followed by a moderated 25 minute Q & A session from the live audience. The live speaker meetings will be held on Zoom each Friday at 10:00 AM Pacific time. To attend the live recordings and have the opportunity of asking questions of the guest, please send an email to reco12pod@gmail.com and request to get on the invitation list. To become a Reco12 Spearhead and support this mission, please consider subscribing at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1117700/support . All aspects of recovery will be covered, including but not limited to: Steps, Blessings of Recovery, Relapse Prevention, Sponsoring, Specific aspects of recovery, What to do if I relapse, etc. We invite each guest speaker to seek guidance so they can reflect the light they have been given in order to inspire hope, meaning, growth and worth in each of us, the listening audience.
Episodes
378 episodes
Brandon S - Fearful to Fearless - Meeting 369
Brandon S is a gratefully recovering member of Sexaholics Anonymous. His #1 addiction is lust, then sex, and pornography. Brandon admits complete powerlessness over lust, which is the driving force to my addiction. He also feels that he qualifi...
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Episode 369
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1:02:08
Rachel A in Space - Afro Euro - I Thought Step 6 Was Just 1 Paragraph
Here is a little bit about Rachel A in Space: Everything changed when Rachel realized that things weren’t being done TO her, they were being done FOR her.Reco12 Afro-Euro Timezone is a Reco12 Resource in and for the Afro-Euro time ...
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Episode 368
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1:08:03
Julian H - We Let God Discipline Us - Meeting 357
Julian H found his "solution" in sex and porn as a youth. Living in years of shame and secrets, he kept his life as a double life - portraying himself as a good man around others, but living in fear and darkness alone. In September of 2019, his...
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Episode 367
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59:02
Nadia J - Helping Others - Afro-Euro - Meeting 366
Nadia J is a child of God, walking in the Sunlight of the Spirit - cross-addicted to helping others and carrying this message. She is utterly in love with the 12 Steps and our beloved Big Book but an even bigger fan of God!Reco12 Afro-Eu...
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Episode 366
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58:59
Cathy C - No Middle-of-the-Road Solution: I Had But Two Alternatives - Meeting 365
Cathy C is a member of Overeaters Anonymous since 2013, but only recovered since 2020. Through the Grace of God and working all the steps, she is free from self bondage. Cathy is able to say that the consciousness of the Presence of God is toda...
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Episode 365
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59:11
Anna F - Codependency: The Mother of Addiction? - Afro-Euro - Meeting 364
After 10 years in therapy, reading all the self-help books out there, yet still drowning in low self-esteem and relationship drama (not just romantic), Anna found a simple yet powerful solution in the 12 steps for codependency. In this episode ...
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Episode 364
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1:02:09
Damian - Recovery and Relationships - Meeting 363
At the end of 1989 just after the fall of the Belin Wall , Damian departed Australia arriving in Europe.Now in 2025, with over 2 years sobriety from narcotics and over 15 months sobriety from Lust Addiction as defined from Sexaholics Ano...
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Episode 363
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1:06:20
Lee H - Transmuting Hate Into Love - Afro- Euro - Meeting 362
My name is Lee H. I am a proud member of CA. My journey of recovery began in August 2023 and I finished my 12 steps in January 2024. I was in active addiction for 22 years, crippled by PTSD, anxiety, depression, addiction and self-loathing. Tha...
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Episode 362
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1:14:50
Just Joe - Outcast No More: A Leper's Work Begins - Meeting 361
Just Joe was born into pain he didn’t choose—abused as a child, shaped in silence, and twisted by what passed for love. In time, he became a mirror of the very harm he had endured, caught in a cycle of fantasy, compulsion, and deep confusion. F...
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Episode 361
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1:02:55
Rae M - LOVE - Afro Euro - Meeting 360
Here is a bit about Rae M in Rae's own words: I am 5 years clean and sober I got sober on zoom at the start of the Covid lockdown. I was gifted with enough pain to throw myself into this program and I was reborn into who I was always mean...
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Episode 360
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1:00:50
Candace B - The Gift Wrapped In Pain - Meeting 359
Candace B has recovered through SLAA and CoDA by working the 12 Steps using the undiluted message of the AA Big Book. Her recovery is from love addiction, fantasy, people-pleaseing, and codependency. God has transformed every area of her life a...
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Episode 359
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1:00:18
Andrew E - Afro Euro - A New Director and a New Employer - Meeting 358
A new Director and a new Employer Andrew E lives in London in the UK and came into recovery from alcohol and drug addiction in March 2024 in a 12 step treatment centre. I am a member of Cocaine Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous, I hav...
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Episode 358
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1:05:43
Carriss D - Tools of the Program - Meeting 357
When Carriss joined SA she came in with an expectation that she would quickly work the program, finish the steps, get her certificate of completion and then her husband would be happy and all would be well. Carriss found out pretty quickly that...
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Episode 357
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1:00:21
Anna F - An Answer to All My Problems - Afro Euro - Meeting 356
Anna F came into the rooms seeking a solution for her sex and love addiction, but by the grace of God, she received so much more. By following the clear instructions in the Big Book, she discovered a new way of living. Through that transformati...
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Episode 356
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58:20
Father Bill W - The Power of Two Way Prayer - Meeting 355
Father Bill W. is a retired Episcopal priest continuously sober and active in 12-Step recovery since 1972. He has worked in the addiction treatment field most of his adult life and was the Director of several nationally recognized treatment cen...
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Episode 355
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1:05:58
Emmi E - What Does It Mean to Let God Run the Show - Afro-Euro - Meeting 354
Today's meeting for the Afro-Euro Reco12 Recovery Resource will be a talk by Emmi E, another Reco12 first-time speaker. Her topic will be entitled, "What Does it Mean to Let God Run the Show". Emmi E is Alcoholic, Sexual anorexic/av...
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Episode 354
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1:01:22
Shana C - The Intersection of Grief and Joy - Meeting 353
Shana C. is the wife of an addict and she tried to carry it by herself when didn’t know any better. It wasn’t until a cross country move, Covid, and her husband‘s first relapse that brought her to the end of her self. That’s when she found S-an...
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Episode 353
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1:00:28
Stephen F - Mental Health in Recovery - Afro Euro - Meeting 352
Today's meeting for the Afro-Euro Reco12 Recovery Resource will be a talk by Stephen F, a Reco12 first-timer, who will speak on "Mental Health in Recovery"Reco12 Afro-Euro Timezone is a Reco12 Resource in and for the Afro-Euro time zone ...
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Episode 352
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54:59
Justin B - On the Same Team - Meeting 351
Justin B is the host of Reco12 and a son of an all-powerful and perfectly loving God and a multi-disciplinary addict living in the miracle of one-day-at-a-time recovery. He has been in the rooms of recovery for about 12 years and is highl...
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Episode 351
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45:52
Purdy - The Spiritual Life is Not a Theory - Afro Euro - Meeting 350
Today's meeting for the Afro-Euro Reco12 Recovery Resource will be a talk by Purdy, a Reco12 Favorite, who will speak on "The Spiritual Life is Not a Theory, We Have to Live It."Reco12 Afro-Euro Timezone is a Reco12 Resource in and for t...
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Episode 350
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1:05:22
Jacqueline S - Cunning, Baffling, Powerful - Meeting 349
Jacqueline S came in through a different recovery program (Al-Anon), couldn't leave because she felt compelled to return day after day, and slowly her life has been transformed one day at a time. Her 1st exposure to a 12 step program was on Sat...
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Episode 349
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1:03:40
Louise W - Learning to Live - Learning to Love - Afro Euro - Meeting 348
Louise W is a Grateful member of CA, AA, Coda, SLAA, Coanon, alanon. I actually could fit into all of the fellowships. My primary fellowship is now CA however. I now focus on emotional sobriety as substances are no longer the issue and actually...
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Episode 348
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55:55
Ask-it Basket with Robert Pardon - 12 - Codependency
This week, Reco12 continues with the "Ask-it Basket" project we started last year. In this conversation, Justin B and Robert Pardon discuss several questions with principles of recovery at the root of them. We dive deep into questio...
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Asher G - I'd Rather Pretend to Be an Addict than Learn Later that I Really Am One - Meeting 347
ASHER G is a spiritual entrepreneur, human connection coach, and Rabbi in Southern California. His story began at home as a young child where all seemed well from the outside. As the youngest by nine years, he felt a horrible sense of abandonme...
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Episode 347
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52:18
Ollie D - Sponsorship in Early Recovery - Afro Euro - Meeting 346
I have a sobriety date of 26/1/24. I live a life led by God and service to others. Cocaine Anonymous has ignited something within me that I want to shout about! I'm sponsored and actively sponsor. Life really has taken on new meaning and purpos...
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Episode 346
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