Recovery is a process of decisions Podcast
A weekly episode released every Friday. Recovery is a process in fact it is a process of decisions. Deciding to recover is to decide to live and not die. Every day choices become decisions, since recovery is a daily process recovery is a process of decisions. This podcast visits all things recovery. We Deep dive into the recovery lifestyle and how it is maintained. To live life without a drink or a drug. How to recover from life's many hills and valleys. We all live under the universal mandate choices , decisions, consequences or rewards. How to make better decisions and get more rewards and less consequences. We can only do what we know, to do better we must learn better. Find better teachers. In recovery the best teachers have lived experience. Teachers who have walked the walk and now talk the talk. Thus speaks Trent Thomas, a certified peer support specialist. Follow Trent on his YouTube channel Recovery is a process of decisions. Feel free to leave your inspirational comments on Transnetrecover.com/podcast
Episodes
119 episodes
Thru my recovery I declare I am not done yet
Recovery exist by Gods permission. Recovery is at Gods will. His plan, his infinite imagination. The God of my understanding is the heart beat maker, the thought provoker. He is the ship captain, the airplane pilot, the script writer, the movie...
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Season 13
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Episode 2
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10:59
Recovery demands leaving isolation alone
Isolation is a decision to extract oneself form the community. In addiction isolation becomes a self induced criteria for living. The result of bad decision making forces one to hide from the community due to shame and guilt. It is only w...
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Season 13
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Episode 1
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8:26
Recovery requires being a hero and not a coward
The similarities between a hero and a coward are that they are both scared to death. However, the hero decides to move forward where as the coward moves backward. Recovery requires hero like actions in that one must leave behind ones totally li...
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Season 12
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Episode 10
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9:04
Recovery requires thankfulness
Life is a culmination of ups and downs , a eternal circle of choices decisons consequences and rewards. We live today at the mercy of the God of our understanding. Nothing is guaranteed. It is my acceptance of these facts that propels my recove...
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Season 12
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Episode 9
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6:39
From powerless to powerful in recovery
Step 1 of the 12 steps instructs us to admit we are powerless over the disease of addiction. This step is mandatory in order to recover. One must admit and thus submit to the power greater than us. God does not force his will on anyone. He must...
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Season 12
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Episode 8
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9:03
My recovery depends on me knowing the woman
My past relationshiops were all doomed to fail due to my lack of knowdkege about women. Women are unique and special creations from God. Women have a inner make up that makes them unique and superior in many respects. Women have an inate capabi...
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Season 12
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Episode 7
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13:53
Recovery demands we use our history to prepare for our future
Life is circular. What has been will be again. Change is essential for sustained recovery. By remebering our bad past decisions we can use them to avoid making the same mistakes again. Our past can become a shield of protection for our future d...
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Season 12
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Episode 6
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12:04
Recovery means accepting my Imperfections
My life is a lesson of what to and what not to do. I am a imperfect man. Ladened with faults and failures. In recovery I have learned to accept all my failings and imperfections. It is my belief that the God of my understanding forgives uncondi...
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Season 12
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Episode 5
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11:19
Recovery requires taking a look in the mirror
Someone once said, 'If you want to change the world, you have to start with the man in the mirror and make that change.' For me, the man in the mirror is me. In recovery, I had to change myself. From the inside out. For me, recovery was t...
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Season 12
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Episode 4
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8:58
Finding healing in recovery
Healing is defined as moving into a state of balance. This balance is reached mentally,physically,emotionally and spiritually. In order to heal one must reveal. Revealing ones past bad decisions rids one of the extreme shame and guilt often car...
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Season 12
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Episode 3
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11:45
Tomorrow is not guaranteed in recovery
Life is short we just dont know how short. Life is a complex expression of co existing organisms. Life is a reward from the God of our understanding. Our lives are a demostration of his emense love for mankind. Our very next breath is dependent...
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Season 12
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Episode 2
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11:15
Dealing with desire in recovery
Desires are born in the imagination of men. Desires can be transformed into wants and wants can be spun out of control and be transcribed into needs. Needs are the highest form of request the mind is confronted with. A need is a mandatory requi...
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Season 12
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Episode 1
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16:21
The battle for truth in recovery
Todays world is beset with lies. Each day we must choose between left or right,wrong or right. The truth is at a premieum in the times we live in. For the addict it seems its easier to lie than to tell the truth. What we know is that the liar h...
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Season 11
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Episode 10
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12:08
What works for me works for me
Recovery is a extremely personal decision. What works for me may or may not work for you. In recovery there are some commonality. In addiction the pain addicts feel is the same. The dependency of drugs and alcohol remains the same in its effect...
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Season 11
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Episode 9
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9:55
Recovery means dreaming the possibilities
Welcome back, Welcome back. I remember singing this in the 70s. Today I say this in my recovery. Recovery means walking again. Living again. Feeling again. Welcome back all the many things I traded away. To feel again, love again to being loved...
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Season 11
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Episode 8
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11:30
How low can you go?
In life you reap what you sow. Low living or living a immoral life garners you the consequences of those wrong decisions. Being a low life steers you away from the success driven path of taking the high road. Inevitably man sins. As sinfu...
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Season 11
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Episode 7
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9:39
Exiting hell with hope
Many say hell is a place you goto when you die. Others know hell can be a state of mind that exist in the here and now. Hell can be a place you find yourself in while living. Hell can be a steep hill or a deep valley you cannot escape from. Hel...
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Season 11
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Episode 6
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11:00
Recovery is a lifestyle of living and not dying.
Recovery is a decision to live and not die. It involves making the next right decision. Recovery remains a life seeking truth. Being truthful in all your affairs. Addiction is a disease of the lie. In addiction we begin by lying to ourselves an...
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Season 11
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Episode 5
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11:45
Seeking the difference between helping and enabling
Help is defined as assisting someone to overcome an obstacle or challenge. Enabling, rather, is defined as preventing someone from experiencing the consequences of an action. The difference between these two approaches can be the difference bet...
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Season 11
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Episode 4
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12:04
It takes courage to ask for help
Needing help and asking for it is two totally different things. To ask for help, you must first admit you need help. To ask for help, one must first be in a state of submission. Asking for help requires that one be willing to follow the instruc...
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Season 11
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Episode 3
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8:06
The Miracle of Recovery
A miracle is defined as a supernatural act performed by God. God does not need the manifestations of the natural world to accomplish his directions. In the beginning, he said let there be light, and light came to be, yet the sun was not created...
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Season 11
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Episode 2
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9:28
Facing setbacks in recovery
We all should be mindful that you have not lost if you are still running. A setback is a new opportunity just to do better. Doing better requires a consistent and continual evaluation of what is possible. Better is also a decision. To learn, on...
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Season 11
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Episode 1
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10:12
The measurement of time in recovery
We are finite, meaning we have an expiration date. We are born, we live and then we die. The God we serve however is infinite, meaning has no ending. God is Omnipresent, meaning everywhere all the time. God exists in infinity, never ever ending...
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Season 10
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Episode 10
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7:54
What help looks like in recovery
Help is defined as assisting someone with resources in attempting to do something. Help requires submission. Needing help is not the same as asking for help. Because of the selfish characteristics associated with the disease of addiction, many ...
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Season 10
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Episode 9
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10:41
The need to help someone other than myself
Life is circular. What is will be again? We all fall down and at some point need help. Asking for help when needed is a sign of intelligence. In order to help someone, we must be in a position to help. To help someone, we must first help oursel...
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Season 10
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Episode 8
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9:57