Recovery in the Middle Ages - Two Middle-Aged Suburban Dads Talk About Recovering From Addiction to Drugs & Alcohol.
Mike and Nat are two middle-aged suburban dads wrestling with addiction and recovery while trying to juggle home life, work, and staying sober. Listen as they discuss current topics in the recovery community including 12 Step, alternative addiction recovery and the newest medical research . Listen to the guys talk about their daily struggle to maintain their recovery and anonymity in the world of soccer moms and PTA meetings. If the neighbors only knew...
Listen on:
Episodes
Friday Jul 30, 2021
Friday Jul 30, 2021
RMA-Episode 48 Show Notes:
The hero’s journey. In narratology and comparative mythology, the hero's journey, or the monomyth, is the common template of stories that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis, and comes home changed or transformed. How does this apply to recovery? Mike and Nat break it down and give you the tools you need to embark on your own journey of inner transformation.
All this and more on a mythical, meandering, adventurous episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages.
Recovery in the News:
Marijuana Saved my Life
The Week in Weird:
Jesus Take the Wheel
LISTEN TO RMA ON YOUTUBE
PLEASE leave us a 5 star review on I-Tunes if you’re enjoying the show and SUBSCRIBE to get the latest episodes.
You can reach us by email at:
MikeR@middleagesrecovery.com
Natx@middleagesrecovery.com
Send comments, complaints, death threats, ideas and requests to be interviewed. We’ll talk to anyone!
Check out the website:
Www.middleagesrecovery.com
Visit MiddleAgesRecovery.com and tell us your story of your struggles with alcohol and drugs. Fill out the “tell us your story” Form on the website, write your recovery or using story and we will read it on the air! (Anonymity guaranteed).
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER
Join the Facebook Page! Exciting things are happening there!
We also have a Facebook Group! Request to join the group. It’s a private space for continuing the discussion of what Nat and Mike talk about on the podcast. Hope to see you there.If you’re in trouble with substance abuse and need help, reach out. There are thousands of people who have put problems with addiction in their rear-view mirrors and you can be one of them. While we neither endorse nor condemn any particular program, the sheer number of available AA and NA meetings suggest that reaching out to those organizations would be a good first step on the road to recovery.
https://www.aa.org/
https://www.na.org/meetingsearch/
Marijuana Anonymous (just in case):
This Naked Mind
Friday Jul 23, 2021
Friday Jul 23, 2021
RMA-Episode 47 Show Notes:
This week on RMA-the news you can use. On a special, all-Recovery in the News episode of RMA, Mike and Nat do a deep dive on two timely stories, the first, a critique of the idea of drinking in moderation, and the second on how companies are planning to deal with returning workers who picked up some unfortunate addictions during lockdown.
All this and more on a stop the presses, off the record, secretly sourced episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages
The Moderation Myth-Why Controlled Drinking is Hell
The Workforce That’s Returning is Not the Same
The Week in Weird:
Mutilated Cow Discovered After UFO Sighting
LISTEN TO RMA ON YOUTUBE
PLEASE leave us a 5 star review on I-Tunes if you’re enjoying the show and SUBSCRIBE to get the latest episodes.
You can reach us by email at:
MikeR@middleagesrecovery.com
Natx@middleagesrecovery.com
Send comments, complaints, death threats, ideas and requests to be interviewed. We’ll talk to anyone!
Check out the website:
Www.middleagesrecovery.com
Visit MiddleAgesRecovery.com and tell us your story of your struggles with alcohol and drugs. Fill out the “tell us your story” Form on the website, write your recovery or using story and we will read it on the air! (Anonymity guaranteed).
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER
Join the Facebook Page! Exciting things are happening there!
We also have a Facebook Group! Request to join the group. It’s a private space for continuing the discussion of what Nat and Mike talk about on the podcast. Hope to see you there.If you’re in trouble with substance abuse and need help, reach out. There are thousands of people who have put problems with addiction in their rear-view mirrors and you can be one of them. While we neither endorse nor condemn any particular program, the sheer number of available AA and NA meetings suggest that reaching out to those organizations would be a good first step on the road to recovery.
https://www.aa.org/
https://www.na.org/meetingsearch/
Marijuana Anonymous (just in case):
This Naked Mind
Friday Jul 16, 2021
Friday Jul 16, 2021
RMA-Episode 46 Show Notes:
This week on RMA we square the circle on relapse and take a look at some of the statistics and studies dealing with the issue. We also discuss how to avoid a relapse and how to identify the triggers that put you in the danger zone.
Plus, Mike gets back from Mexico and Nat goes to the zoo, so join us as we voyage into an all-inclusive, hungry, angry, lonely and tired episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages.
Recovery in the News:
Trout can become Addicted to Meth
The Week in Weird:
Bigfoot Filmed Crossing River?:
LISTEN TO RMA ON YOUTUBE
PLEASE leave us a 5 star review on I-Tunes if you’re enjoying the show and SUBSCRIBE to get the latest episodes.
You can reach us by email at:
MikeR@middleagesrecovery.com
Natx@middleagesrecovery.com
Send comments, complaints, death threats, ideas and requests to be interviewed. We’ll talk to anyone!
Check out the website:
Www.middleagesrecovery.com
Visit MiddleAgesRecovery.com and tell us your story of your struggles with alcohol and drugs. Fill out the “tell us your story” Form on the website, write your recovery or using story and we will read it on the air! (Anonymity guaranteed).
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER
Join the Facebook Page! Exciting things are happening there!
We also have a Facebook Group! Request to join the group. It’s a private space for continuing the discussion of what Nat and Mike talk about on the podcast. Hope to see you there.If you’re in trouble with substance abuse and need help, reach out. There are thousands of people who have put problems with addiction in their rear-view mirrors and you can be one of them. While we neither endorse nor condemn any particular program, the sheer number of available AA and NA meetings suggest that reaching out to those organizations would be a good first step on the road to recovery.
https://www.aa.org/
https://www.na.org/meetingsearch/
Marijuana Anonymous (just in case):
This Naked Mind
Friday Jul 09, 2021
Friday Jul 09, 2021
RMA-Episode 44 Show Notes:
Relapse is a part of recovery. Or is it? This one little statement has engendered a fair amount of controversy and consternation in the recovery community. This week on a special episode of RMA, Erin Moore talks about her own pandemic relapse, how it happened and how she pulled out of the nosedive before crashing into the rocks.
Plus, it’s been a busy week in the RMA universe , so join Mike and Nat as they embark on a patriotic, explosive, freedom-filled episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages.
Connect with Erin Moore on the RMA facebook page, or at her webpage:
https://fallingphoenix.com/
Recovery in the News:
Sha’Carri Richardson, a Track Sensation, Tests Positive for Marijuana
The Week in Weird:
Want to buy a haunted Scottish village for less than 200k?
Prancercize:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-50GjySwew
Hobby-Horse Championship-Finland 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JTB7m_VRzs
LISTEN TO RMA ON YOUTUBE
PLEASE leave us a 5 star review on I-Tunes if you’re enjoying the show and SUBSCRIBE to get the latest episodes.
You can reach us by email at:
MikeR@middleagesrecovery.com
Natx@middleagesrecovery.com
Send comments, complaints, death threats, ideas and requests to be interviewed. We’ll talk to anyone!
Check out the website:
Www.middleagesrecovery.com
Visit MiddleAgesRecovery.com and tell us your story of your struggles with alcohol and drugs. Fill out the “tell us your story” Form on the website, write your recovery or using story and we will read it on the air! (Anonymity guaranteed).
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER
Join the Facebook Page! Exciting things are happening there!
We also have a Facebook Group! Request to join the group. It’s a private space for continuing the discussion of what Nat and Mike talk about on the podcast. Hope to see you there.
If you’re in trouble with substance abuse and need help, reach out. There are thousands of people who have put problems with addiction in their rear-view mirrors and you can be one of them. While we neither endorse nor condemn any particular program, the sheer number of available AA and NA meetings suggest that reaching out to those organizations would be a good first step on the road to recovery.
https://www.aa.org/
https://www.na.org/meetingsearch/
Marijuana Anonymous (just in case):
This Naked Mind
Friday Jul 02, 2021
Friday Jul 02, 2021
RMA-Episode 44 Show Notes:
Recovery is a process, and learning how to think with a recovery mindset is a journey, an evolution of mind. Like any other journey, there are stages and hurdles, but if you put in the work and trust the process, you’ll get there eventually. In this case, the destination is a place of peace and equilibrium. While this isn’t entirely an episode about The Palsgraf Revelation, Joseph Naus’ follow-up memoir, it does borrow from his discussion on how to help orient your mind using the stages of recovery as a framework. We go deep, and we go long on this, and I hope you find some value in the discussion.
Plus, 4th of July is upon us and summer is in full swing, so join Mike and Nat as they embark on a beachside, nautical, pint-glass sized episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages.
Recovery in the News:
Harm Reduction Gets Federal Support
The Week in Weird:
What are those UFO’s Anyway? The government has no clue.
The Palsgraf Revelation
LISTEN TO RMA ON YOUTUBE
PLEASE leave us a 5 star review on I-Tunes if you’re enjoying the show and SUBSCRIBE to get the latest episodes.
You can reach us by email at:
MikeR@middleagesrecovery.com
Natx@middleagesrecovery.com
Send comments, complaints, death threats, ideas and requests to be interviewed. We’ll talk to anyone!
Check out the website:
Www.middleagesrecovery.com
Visit MiddleAgesRecovery.com and tell us your story of your struggles with alcohol and drugs. Fill out the “tell us your story” Form on the website, write your recovery or using story and we will read it on the air! (Anonymity guaranteed).
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER
Join the Facebook Page! Exciting things are happening there!
We also have a Facebook Group! Request to join the group. It’s a private space for continuing the discussion of what Nat and Mike talk about on the podcast. Hope to see you there.
If you’re in trouble with substance abuse and need help, reach out. There are thousands of people who have put problems with addiction in their rear-view mirrors and you can be one of them. While we neither endorse nor condemn any particular program, the sheer number of available AA and NA meetings suggest that reaching out to those organizations would be a good first step on the road to recovery.
https://www.aa.org/
https://www.na.org/meetingsearch/
Marijuana Anonymous (just in case):
This Naked Mind
Friday Jun 25, 2021
Friday Jun 25, 2021
RMA-Episode 43 Show Notes:
This week we continue our discussion of Pepperdine Law grad and former attorney Joseph W. Naus’s memoir, Straight Pepper Diet, a harrowing and sometimes hilarious memoir about surviving the aftermath of sex and alcohol addiction.
Also, school is OVER and the summer begins. Will Mike and Nat’s stress levels go up or down? Tune in to find out.
STRAIGHT PEPPER DIET buy from this link and it helps the show https://amzn.to/3vD6FTF
This week on RMA, Mike and Nat talk about the book, their reaction to the crazy stuff in it, and about a whole bunch of other stuff that went down this week in RMA land.
Plus we have Recovery in the News and the Week in Weird on a felonious, probationary, lose-your-law-license, episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages.
France’s Crack Camp
Bigfoot at the Gym?
LISTEN TO RMA ON YOUTUBE
PLEASE leave us a 5 star review on I-Tunes if you’re enjoying the show and SUBSCRIBE to get the latest episodes.
You can reach us by email at:
MikeR@middleagesrecovery.com
Natx@middleagesrecovery.com
Send comments, complaints, death threats, ideas and requests to be interviewed. We’ll talk to anyone!
Check out the website:
Www.middleagesrecovery.com
Visit MiddleAgesRecovery.com and tell us your story of your struggles with alcohol and drugs. Fill out the “tell us your story” Form on the website, write your recovery or using story and we will read it on the air! (Anonymity guaranteed).
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER
Join the Facebook Page! Exciting things are happening there!
We also have a Facebook Group! Request to join the group. It’s a private space for continuing the discussion of what Nat and Mike talk about on the podcast. Hope to see you there.
If you’re in trouble with substance abuse and need help, reach out. There are thousands of people who have put problems with addiction in their rear-view mirrors and you can be one of them. While we neither endorse nor condemn any particular program, the sheer number of available AA and NA meetings suggest that reaching out to those organizations would be a good first step on the road to recovery.
https://www.aa.org/
https://www.na.org/meetingsearch/
Marijuana Anonymous (just in case):
This Naked Mind
Friday Jun 18, 2021
Friday Jun 18, 2021
RMA-Episode 41 Show Notes:
"On Tuesday, I was a respected civil trial lawyer making six-figures. On Wednesday, I woke up handcuffed to a hospital bed charged with attempted murder...and then it got worse."
Pepperdine Law grad and former attorney Joseph W. Naus, wrote a memoir called Straight Pepper Diet, a harrowing and sometimes hilarious memoir about surviving the aftermath of sex and alcohol addiction.
STRAIGHT PEPPER DIET buy from this link and it helps the show https://amzn.to/3vD6FTF
This week on RMA, Mike and Nat talk about the book, their reaction to the crazy stuff in it, and about a whole bunch of other stuff that went down this week in RMA land.
Plus we have Recovery in the News and the Week in Weird on a disbarred, Krafty, use-hammer to-break-glass episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages.
Straight Pepper Diet on Amazon (Purchase through this link to support your favorite podcast)
The Mac and Cheese Diet
Jamacian Mermaid and the Haunted River
LISTEN TO RMA ON YOUTUBE
PLEASE leave us a 5 star review on I-Tunes if you’re enjoying the show and SUBSCRIBE to get the latest episodes.
You can reach us by email at:
MikeR@middleagesrecovery.com
Natx@middleagesrecovery.com
Send comments, complaints, death threats, ideas and requests to be interviewed. We’ll talk to anyone!
Check out the website:
Www.middleagesrecovery.com
Visit MiddleAgesRecovery.com and tell us your story of your struggles with alcohol and drugs. Fill out the “tell us your story” Form on the website, write your recovery or using story and we will read it on the air! (Anonymity guaranteed).
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER
Join the Facebook Page! Exciting things are happening there!
We also have a Facebook Group! Request to join the group. It’s a private space for continuing the discussion of what Nat and Mike talk about on the podcast. Hope to see you there.
If you’re in trouble with substance abuse and need help, reach out. There are thousands of people who have put problems with addiction in their rear-view mirrors and you can be one of them. While we neither endorse nor condemn any particular program, the sheer number of available AA and NA meetings suggest that reaching out to those organizations would be a good first step on the road to recovery.
https://www.aa.org/
https://www.na.org/meetingsearch/
Marijuana Anonymous (just in case):
This Naked Mind
Friday Jun 11, 2021
Friday Jun 11, 2021
RMA-Episode 41 Show Notes:
This week on Recovery in the Middle Ages, Erin Moore returns to talk about parenting, family dynamics and addiction. When people use drugs and alcohol they aren’t the only ones affected. Like a stone tossed into a pond, the ripples of addiction move outwards from the addict at the center, causing rough seas and shoreline floods for everyone in their path. Erin shares her experience as a single mom of two, who used and got clean while raising her kids. Along the way she learned some ways to deftly navigate this tricky terrain, which she shares with the RMA audience. How do you talk to kids about your past? How can you ensure that your kids don’t follow in your addiction footsteps?
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a person in recovery, a high-functioning alcoholic or a stone-cold junkie, there’s something for you in today’s discussion.
We also have the weekly wrap-up, Recovery in the News and the Week in Weird on a developmentally appropriate, PTA approved, manifested through sheer force of will episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages
Erin Moore:
https://fallingphoenix.com/
America Has A Drinking Problem
Haunted White House
LISTEN TO RMA ON YOUTUBE
PLEASE leave us a 5 star review on I-Tunes if you’re enjoying the show and SUBSCRIBE to get the latest episodes.
You can reach us by email at:
MikeR@middleagesrecovery.com
Natx@middleagesrecovery.com
Send comments, complaints, death threats, ideas and requests to be interviewed. We’ll talk to anyone!
Check out the website:
Www.middleagesrecovery.com
Visit MiddleAgesRecovery.com and tell us your story of your struggles with alcohol and drugs. Fill out the “tell us your story” Form on the website, write your recovery or using story and we will read it on the air! (Anonymity guaranteed).
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER
Join the Facebook Page! Exciting things are happening there!
We also have a Facebook Group! Request to join the group. It’s a private space for continuing the discussion of what Nat and Mike talk about on the podcast. Hope to see you there.
If you’re in trouble with substance abuse and need help, reach out. There are thousands of people who have put problems with addiction in their rear-view mirrors and you can be one of them. While we neither endorse nor condemn any particular program, the sheer number of available AA and NA meetings suggest that reaching out to those organizations would be a good first step on the road to recovery.
https://www.aa.org/
https://www.na.org/meetingsearch/
Marijuana Anonymous (just in case):
This Naked Mind
Friday Jun 04, 2021
Friday Jun 04, 2021
RMA-Episode 40 Show Notes:
If you thought Perdu Pharma was the real villain behind the opioid epidemic, let me introduce you to Insys Therapeutics. A pharmaceutical company run by the disgraced and imprisoned CEO John Kapoor, Insys broke new ground when it came to using sleazy sales tactics to get greedy doctors to write bogus prescriptions for their fentanyl lollipops and sublingual spray. When the DEA started to crack down on companies like Insys and the pill mills that popped up overnight in the southern United States, the pharmaceutical companies lobbied Congress and had the law changed, paving the way for years of legal drug-dealing by some of the richest men in America.
This week on Recovery in the Middle Ages, Mike and Nat continue their review of the new HBO documentary The Crime of the Century, a searing indictment of Big Pharma and the political operatives and government regulations that enable over-production, reckless distribution, and mass abuse of synthetic opiates.
Of course, we also have the weekly wrap-up, Recovery in the News and the Week in Weird on a painless, easily influenced by suitcases full of cash and unexplainable by ordinary physics episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages
The Crime of the Century
Patrick Radden Keefe
Empire of Pain: The secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Free Beer for Covid Vaccine Target Being Met
The Truth is Out There
LISTEN TO RMA ON YOUTUBE
PLEASE leave us a 5 star review on I-Tunes if you’re enjoying the show and SUBSCRIBE to get the latest episodes.
You can reach us by email at:
MikeR@middleagesrecovery.com
Natx@middleagesrecovery.com
Send comments, complaints, death threats, ideas and requests to be interviewed. We’ll talk to anyone!
Check out the website:
Www.middleagesrecovery.com
Visit MiddleAgesRecovery.com and tell us your story of your struggles with alcohol and drugs. Fill out the “tell us your story” Form on the website, write your recovery or using story and we will read it on the air! (Anonymity guaranteed).
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER
Join the Facebook Page! Exciting things are happening there!
We also have a Facebook Group! Request to join the group. It’s a private space for continuing the discussion of what Nat and Mike talk about on the podcast. Hope to see you there.
If you’re in trouble with substance abuse and need help, reach out. There are thousands of people who have put problems with addiction in their rear-view mirrors and you can be one of them. While we neither endorse nor condemn any particular program, the sheer number of available AA and NA meetings suggest that reaching out to those organizations would be a good first step on the road to recovery.
https://www.aa.org/
https://www.na.org/meetingsearch/
Marijuana Anonymous (just in case):
This Naked Mind
Friday May 28, 2021
Friday May 28, 2021
RMA-Episode 39 Show Notes:
When you think of the term “crisis,” what comes to mind? Usually, a crisis is thought of as something that just happens; a series of events that brings you to a critical point where action needs to be taken. But that’s only part of the story. How does a crisis come into being? If you’re talking about the opioid crisis, you can draw a straight line from the actions of Perdu Pharma to the 500,000 Americans who have died of opioid overdoses in the last 20 years.
This week on Recovery in the Middle Ages, Mike and Nat review the new HBO documentary The Crime of the Century, a searing indictment of Big Pharma and the political operatives and government regulations that enable over-production, reckless distribution, and mass abuse of synthetic opiates.
Directed by Alex Gibney and featuring the reporting of Patrick Radden Keef, the Crime of the Century exposes how the pharmaceutical industry reaps billions of dollars in profits dealing drugs while hiding the destructive and dangerous nature of the product they are selling.
Don’t miss this important and compelling look at the epidemic that has cost billions of dollars and taken hundreds of thousands of lives.
Of course, we also have the weekly wrap-up, Recovery in the News and the Week in Weird on an addictive, over-prescribed, immune from civil and criminal liability episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages
The Crime of the Century
Patrick Radden Keefe
https://amzn.to/2SEGpdz
Empire of Pain: The secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Salvation Army Denies Treatment to Addicts Using MAT
Tree-Hugging Bigfoot Caught on Thermal Imaging
LISTEN TO RMA ON YOUTUBE
PLEASE leave us a 5 star review on I-Tunes if you’re enjoying the show and SUBSCRIBE to get the latest episodes.
You can reach us by email at:
MikeR@middleagesrecovery.com
Natx@middleagesrecovery.com
Send comments, complaints, death threats, ideas and requests to be interviewed. We’ll talk to anyone!
Check out the website:
Www.middleagesrecovery.com
Visit MiddleAgesRecovery.com and tell us your story of your struggles with alcohol and drugs. Fill out the “tell us your story” Form on the website, write your recovery or using story and we will read it on the air! (Anonymity guaranteed).
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER
Join the Facebook Page! Exciting things are happening there!
We also have a Facebook Group! Request to join the group. It’s a private space for continuing the discussion of what Nat and Mike talk about on the podcast. Hope to see you there.
If you’re in trouble with substance abuse and need help, reach out. There are thousands of people who have put problems with addiction in their rear-view mirrors and you can be one of them. While we neither endorse nor condemn any particular program, the sheer number of available AA and NA meetings suggest that reaching out to those organizations would be a good first step on the road to recovery.
https://www.aa.org/
https://www.na.org/meetingsearch/
Marijuana Anonymous (just in case):
This Naked Mind