Breakfast of Choices
Everyone has stories of transformation. And some of them include moments, or years of intense adversity, a time when it felt like there was no hope. This podcast, "Breakfast of Choices," holds space for people to share their true, raw and unedited stories of overcoming extreme struggles, like addiction, mental illness, incarceration, domestic violence, suicide, emotional and physical abuse, toxic family structures, relationships, and more. Trauma comes in so many forms.
Every week, as a Business Development Rep for South Coast Behavioral Health, and a certified Peer Recovery Support Specialist, Certified Recovery/Life Transformation Coach/Mentor and your host, I will jump right into the lives of people who have faced these types of adversity and CHOSE to make choices to better themselves. We'll talk about everything they went through on their journey from Rock Bottom to Rock Solid.
Through hearing each guest's story of resilience, my hope is that we'll all be inspired to wake up every single day and make our own "Breakfast of Choices". More importantly, that we'll understand we have the POWER to do it.
When someone shares their story, it can be unbelievably healing. And it can be just what someone else needs to hear at that exact moment to simply keep moving forward. So I hope you can find "that one little thing that sticks," along with hope and encouragement to just keep taking it one day at a time.
And now let me be the first to welcome you to the "Breakfast of Choices" community, a non-judgemental zone where we learn from, lean on and celebrate one another. Because the opposite of addiction is "connection", and we are all in this together.
If you would like to tell your story, I sure would love to listen. Please email me at Breakfastofchoices@gmail.com.
Respects,
Jo Summers.
Breakfast of Choices
Latest Episodes
Self-Care First...What If Loving Yourself Is The Program? With Guest Freeda Rae "Morning Starr" Armstrong
She was sent to treatment as a kid, learned to survive by going numb, and spent years chasing relief through alcohol, chaos, and relationships that looked like love but felt like control. Freeda Rae Armstrong joins us to tell the full truth of ...
How Opioids And Meth Took Over And How Recovery Took It Back - with Guest Brittany Schoelen
A “good childhood” doesn’t make you immune to addiction, and Brittany Scholen’s story proves how fast life can flip when opioids and meth get involved. We talk with Brittany, now working in the recovery industry at Unity Recovery Centers, about...
Finding Freedom and Unlocking Freedom - with Guest Rachel Dick
You can lose years to addiction while still telling yourself it is normal. Rachel Dick did, and what makes her story hit hard is how clearly she describes the moment the lie breaks. We talk through her early trauma, the grooming that planted da...
Season 3-Premier- What If One Connection Could Help Save Your Life? Stories, Resources and the Power of Connection!
I Got Clean For The Beats, Stayed For The Peace- With Guest Skyler Ray
What if your first clean promise wasn’t about recovery at all—but about honoring a dream you made as a kid? Host Jo Summers sits down with rapper and recovery advocate, artist Skyler Ray Davis to trace a life that started with abandonment at ni...
Fan Mail
Hi Jo, I met a lady named Janda yesterday that recommended I check out your podcast. I just finished listening to your personal story. I spent twenty years in meth addiction and have been clean for twenty years now. I spend time weekly volunteering at Robs Ranch and teach classes weekly at LARC for Prison Fellowship. I would like to commend your dedicated efforts to serve the community where you suffered so much pain and trauma. Coming out of that world uniquely equips us to return with a message hope, comfort, encouragement to those who remain trapped. I love your passion and will personally remain committed for life to a shared mission to reach, rescue, and restore. Mark 405-496-5954 markrillema@yahoo.com
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
