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...
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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
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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.
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 21, 2021
Friday May 21, 2021
RMA-Episode 38 Show Notes:
Q: What did the Zen master say to the hot dog vendor?
A: Make me one with everything!
This week, Jed Shred drops by the storeroom to help Mike and Nat make sense of the Recovery Dharma program. He also shares some of his own recovery story and explains how a nice pot-smoking kid from the Midwest ended up running Buddhist Recovery meetings.
FIND JED HERE….
Recovery Dharma Kansas City
https://www.facebook.com/RecoveryDharmaKC
recoverydharmakansascity@gmail.com
What does a daily Buddhist practice look like? What happens at a Recovery Dharma Meeting? The answer to all of these questions and more, this week on Recovery in the Middle Ages
Recovery In The News this week checks up on Lamar Odom and his Ketamine therapy, and the Week in Weird asks, is that a Sturgeon in your lake or are you just happy to see me?
All this and more, on a post-graduate, wisely spoken, compassionate episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages.
Recovery Dharma:
https://recoverydharma.org/
Recovery in the News-Take Ketamine for mental health!
The Week in Weird-Sturgeon, or lake monster?
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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 14, 2021
Friday May 14, 2021
RMA-Episode 37 Show Notes:
Life is suffering. To anyone who has watched the sunrise in the parking lot of a cheap hotel after a few days of binging on drugs, the truth of this statement seems undeniable. There was a time when suffering and craving was all we knew. The good news is that according to Buddhist philosophy there is a way out. Suffering can be stopped. Find out how by listening to Mike and Nat review Dharma Recovery, the book and the program, this week on RMA.
Recovery In The News this week asks, what’s the best way to care for and feed your alcoholic when the liquor stores are closed, and the Week in Weird finds little green men on the march in Bolivia.
Oh, and we also celebrate Nat’s graduation from college and shine a light on the idea of toxic positivity. Not that these things are related, but they are on the same show, so strap in and hang on because we go deep this week.
All this and more on an enlightening, self-aware, relentlessly positive episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages.
Recovery Dharma:
https://recoverydharma.org/
Recovery in the News-Hide sanitisers, give tasty food to boozers!
The Week in Weird-UFO deposits wandering Chupacabra in Bolivia
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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 07, 2021
Friday May 07, 2021
RMA-Episode 36 Show Notes:
The Sinclair Method (TSM). Naltrexone. What do you think of when you hear those terms? Is TSM the miracle cure for alcoholism that it’s most ardent proponents believe it to be, or is overreliance on medically assisted treatment an obstacle to achieving long-term sobriety? This week Mike and Nat dive deep into the 2016 documentary One Little Pill and discuss whether TSM can be a useful weapon in your recovery arsenal.
Also, a great story from listener Grant, the week in review, Nat finishes college, and Mike survives another trip to Pittsburgh.
Recovery In The News this week presents a sad story of death by whippits, and the Week in Weird asks what’s really bothering Bigfoot.
All this and more on a fully vaccinated, graduated, well-travelled episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages.
C3 Foundation
One Little Pill
Recovery in the News
The Week in Weird
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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 Apr 30, 2021
Friday Apr 30, 2021
RMA-Episode 34 Show Notes:
This week on RMA, Get Smart With Erin Moore returns to discuss sobriety during the pandemic, and how traditional recovery programs tried to adapt to the new reality of COVID-19. How did they do? Can you help an addict over Zoom?
Also, the guys finish their review of Paul Churchill’s Alcohol is Shit and consider whether “Plant Medicine” is really all that it’s cracked up to be. Plus, Nat tells a funny acid story and Mike is dodging the parish priest. Don’t miss it!
Recovery In The News this week asks why the New York Times seems aggressively interested in keeping people drinking, in this case, right after being vaccinated, and the Week in Weird asks whether spider-human hybrids are scaring dogs in Costa Rica
All this, plus the week in review, and a “Your Story” segment from listener Erick on a post-pandemic, inoculated, re-emerging into the light filled episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages.
You can reach Erin Moore at www.fallingphoenix.com or find her in the RMA Facebook group under the name: girl_recovery.
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Recovery Elevator
Recovery in the News
The Week in Weird
Spider-Dog Prank Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV6yEOP8gdc
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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).
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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