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 Dec 31, 2021
Friday Dec 31, 2021
RMA-Episode 68 Show Notes:
Happy New Year! It’s the RMA New Year’s special! This week Mike and Nat are joined by Grant Boyken, editor-at-large of the RMA newsroom, moderator of the RMA Facebook Group and the mastermind behind the preeminent recovery news website SoberliningsPlaybook.com. Grant, Mike and Nat break down the year in recovery, highlighting the stories that made news in the recovery universe and getting caught up on recent developments. There are book and movie recommendations and lively debate on topical issues. You don’t want to miss it!
Plus, the Monksters share their New Year’s resolutions and Mike and Nat talk about what’s ahead for the RMA universe in 2022. All this and more on a committed, goal-oriented, resolute episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages.
LINKS:
Grant’s Website:
https://www.soberliningsplaybook.com/
Recovery in the News:
Powerless over….Diet Coke?
Lawmakers want to strengthen access to non-religious substance abuse treatment services
The Week in Weird:
Exorcist Boy Identified as Former NASA Engineer
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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
Addiction Recovery Podcast
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
RMA-Episode 67 Show Notes:
Merry NatXmas! It’s the RMA holiday special! This week we play listener voice-mails, share some holiday cheer and get in tune with the spirit of the season. There’s music, laughter and poetry coming your way. Happy holidays to all.
Plus, Recovery in the News, The Week in Weird and Monksters Speak on a fully boosted, aggressively festive, live from the North Pole episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages
LINKS:
Recovery in the News:
How to Spot a Functional Alcoholic in the Wild
Lawmakers want to strengthen access to non-religious substance abuse treatment services
The Week in Weird:
No link for this one, you’ll have to listen to the show to the end!
Recovery News You Can Use
https://www.soberliningsplaybook.com/
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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
Addiction Recovery Podcast
Friday Dec 17, 2021
Friday Dec 17, 2021
RMA-Episode 66 Show Notes:
Saddle up! Today RMA sits down with Paul Churchill, host of Recovery Elevator and author of the book, Alcohol is Sh*t, How to Ditch the Booze, Re-ignite Your Life, and Recover the Person you Were Always Meant to be. In February 2015 Paul launched the Recovery Elevator Podcast as an accountability tool to quit drinking. Today, the podcast has surpassed 3 million downloads, is in the 95th percentile of all podcasts on iTunes and has been downloaded in all 50 states and over 145 countries. We had a great conversation with Paul, and we’re really excited to share it with you.
Plus, Recovery in the News, The Week in Weird, Monksters Speak on a marginally festive, internally focused, royalty-free episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages
LINKS:
Alcohol is Sh!t Amazon Link—> https://amzn.to/3sbkgn7
Recovery Elevator
Recovery in the News:
https://nypost.com/2021/12/11/meet-an-ex-crack-addict-marathon-runner-and-more-extremists/
Lawmakers want to strengthen access to non-religious substance abuse treatment services
The Week in Weird:
https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/video-crashed-flying-saucer-spotted-on-mars/
Recovery News You Can Use
https://www.soberliningsplaybook.com/
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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).
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
Addiction Recovery Podcast
Friday Dec 10, 2021
Friday Dec 10, 2021
RMA-Episode 65 Show Notes:
This week on RMA, Erin Moore returns to the podcast to discuss addiction, connection, alienation and Maia Szalavitz’s recent Op-Ed in the NY Times, Opioids Feel Like Love. That’s Why They’re Deadly in Tough Times. What is the relationship between our endogenous opiate system and social disconnection? Can connecting with other people really lower our propensity for addiction? Tune in to hear the discussion.
Plus, Recovery in the News, The Week in Weird, Monksters Speak and a holiday themed life update, on a contented, stress-free, yet occasionally anhedonic episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages
LINKS:
Erin Moore:
https://fallingphoenix.com/
Maia Szalavitz:
Opioids Feel Like Love. That’s Why They’re Deadly in Tough Times.
Recovery News You Can Use
https://www.soberliningsplaybook.com/
Recovery in the News:
Supervised Injection Sites Open in NYC
Lawmakers want to strengthen access to non-religious substance abuse treatment services
The Week in Weird:
Is that a Rock on the Moon or a Hut full of Aliens?
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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
Addiction Recovery Podcast
Friday Dec 03, 2021
Friday Dec 03, 2021
RMA-Episode 64 Show Notes:
We're back! And boy do we have a show for you. This week Mike and Nat discuss the ins and outs of Jack Trimpey’s Rational Recovery. What is it? How is it different from AA? Can you incorporate the principles of RR into your own recovery? Tune in to find out.
Plus, Recovery in the News, The Week in Weird, and the life update, on a rational, beastly, self-directed of Recovery in the Middle Ages
LINKS:
Rational Recovery
Rational recovery-The Small Book
Recovery News You Can Use
https://www.soberliningsplaybook.com/
Recovery in the News:
Demi Lovado is “Sober Sober”
Lawmakers want to strengthen access to non-religious substance abuse treatment services
The Week in Weird:
Man Who Dreams of Becoming Alien Takes Off Two Fingers
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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
Addiction Recovery Podcast
Friday Nov 19, 2021
Friday Nov 19, 2021
RMA-Episode 63 Show Notes:
Ready or not, the holidays are around the corner! The stretch from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve is fraught with peril for the newly sober and seasoned sobernaut alike. This week on RMA’s Thanksgiving Extravaganza, Mike and Nat share tips and tricks for making it through with mental health and sobriety intact. To help provide structure to the conversation, they read and comment on selections from Living Sober: Practical Methods Alcoholics Have Used for Living Without Drinking. Whether you identify as an alcoholic, a grey area drinker, or something in between, there’s something in this conversation for YOU.
Other topics covered this week include: Seasonal Affective Disorder, First Things First, Triggers, Boundaries and RMA’s first Zoom recovery meeting.
Plus, Recovery in the News, The Week in Weird, a few war stories and the life update, on a gratitude filled, home for the holidays, cranberry-smeared episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages
LINKS:
Read Living Sober for Free Online
Recovery News You Can Use
https://www.soberliningsplaybook.com/
Recovery in the News:
Overdose Deaths Reached Record High as Pandemic Spread
Lawmakers want to strengthen access to non-religious substance abuse treatment services
The Week in Weird:
NASA Scientists Propose Framework for Announcing Potential Alien Discoveries
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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).
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
Addiction Recovery Podcast
Friday Nov 12, 2021
Friday Nov 12, 2021
RMA-Episode 61 Show Notes:
This week is all about taking it easy on RMA. No guests, no books to review, no movies to watch. Instead, Mike and Nat talk about two podcasts in the recovery space that they’ve been listening to lately, It’s All Bad, and Hooked. The former is a war-story centered podcast out of LA, which goes deep and dark into meth crack and heroin use on the West Coast. The second podcast tells the tale of an engineer and model dad who worked for Boeing for 20 years before becoming addicted to opiates and robbing 30 banks over the course of one very crazy year.
Plus, Recovery in the News, The Week in Weird, a few war stories, and an expanded life update, on a thoroughly relaxed, moderately paced, funnier-than-usual episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages
LINKS:
It’s All Bad Podcast
Hooked Podcast
Recovery News You Can Use
https://www.soberliningsplaybook.com/
Recovery in the News:
Moderate Alcohol Consumption Should Not Be Recommended for Health Reasons
Lawmakers want to strengthen access to non-religious substance abuse treatment services
The Week in Weird:
Flying Humanoid Filmed in Scotland?
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While you’re there, buy a T-Shirt and support your favorite recovery podcast.
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
Addiction Recovery Podcast
Friday Nov 05, 2021
Friday Nov 05, 2021
RMA-Episode 61 Show Notes:
This week on RMA: Addiction. Is it a disease of the brain, or is it something better thought of as a maladaptive learned behavior? Unbroken Brain by Maia Szalavits offers a radical and groundbreaking new perspective, arguing that addictions are learning disorders and shows how seeing the condition this way can untangle our current debates over treatment, prevention and policy. By illustrating what addiction is, and is not, the book illustrates how timing, history, family, peers, culture and chemicals come together to create both illness and recovery- and why there is no “addictive personality” or single treatment that works for all.
Combining Maia Szalavitz’s personal story with a distillation of more than 25 years of science and research, Unbroken Brain provides a paradigm-shifting approach to thinking about addiction.
Plus, the week in review and the usual hijinks on a maladaptive, disordered, slightly congested episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages.
LINKS:
Unbroken Brain is available here---->https://amzn.to/3o427ns
Use this link and help out RMA~!
Unbroken Brain on Audible:
Recovery News You Can Use
https://www.soberliningsplaybook.com/
Recovery in the News:
Shatterproof and The Hartford Release Largest and Most Expansive Addiction Stigma Survey Ever Fielded
Lawmakers want to strengthen access to non-religious substance abuse treatment services
The Week in Weird:
Weird Wishbone UFO Filmed in Chicago
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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).
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
Addiction Recovery Podcast
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
RMA-Episode 60-Show Notes:
This week on RMA we welcome our first in-studio guest, Joseph Naus, the author of the wildly successful addiction and recovery memoirs, Straight Pepper Diet and The Palsgraf Revelation. Joseph was kind enough to give us some time to talk about his books and his recovery, and he also accompanied Nat on his Recovery in the News scat singing!
We recorded two episodes a little while ago where we reviewed Joseph’s books and gave our impressions, so if you want some background on that make sure to give episodes 42 and 43 a listen.
Some of you who joined us more recently might be wondering, “but who is this Joseph Naus person?” In his own words, “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.”
Joseph W. Naus was born in 1971. He graduated from Pepperdine Law and passed the Bar in 1997. As related in his harrowing yet hopeful memoir, Straight Pepper Diet, Joseph was raised by his mom, a heroin addict turned shut-in depressive, amidst crime and poverty. At age 32, Joseph’s American Dream life became a nightmare when his addictions to sex, alcohol and cigarettes collided and exploded.
Despite the odds, Joseph is alive and well. He lives in Highland Park in Los Angeles with his wife, Theresa, and their cat, Bogey, and released his follow-up memoir The Palsgraf Revelation on February 15, 2020.
Join us as we have a conversation with Joseph and find out how he managed to bounce off a dark, low bottom to now enjoy a full life in the light of recovery.
Plus, the week in review and the usual hijinks on live, in-studio, storeroom-filled episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages.
LINKS:
Joseph Naus:
www.josephwnaus.com
Straight Pepper Diet is available here----> https://amzn.to/3nAZPw4 Use this link and help out RMA~!
Palsgraf Revelation buy here and help the show~! https://amzn.to/3bo7po1
Recovery News You Can Use
https://www.soberliningsplaybook.com/
Recovery in the News:
Non-Alcoholic Beverages Sales Up During Pandemic
Lawmakers want to strengthen access to non-religious substance abuse treatment services
The Week in Weird:
Dogman or Bigfoot?
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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).
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
Addiction Recovery Podcast
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Friday Oct 22, 2021
RMA-Episode 59 Show Notes:
This week on RMA-The Last Stop: When a good kid goes down the wrong path, parents are left feeling hopeless. What do they do when their kid starts doing drugs and drinking and getting into trouble with the law? I’ll tell you what they shouldn’t do. Don’t have a transport company pull them out of bed in the middle of the night and send them to a place like the Elan School.
The Elan School, located in the deep woods of Maine was presented to their parents as a last stop resort for out-of-control behaviour. It used a mixture of harsh discipline, emotional, and physical abuse, to deconstruct the students’ psyches and “cure” them of their behavioral issues.
The Last Stop, an award-winning documentary film currently streaming on Amazon Prime, takes a deeper look into the controversial therapy methods used at this school, methods that developed from the Synanon recovery cult. Synanon spawned hundreds of copycat programs like Daytop and Phoenix House, that used confrontational therapy and other abusive tactics with no scientific basis to treat teens with substance abuse and behavioral issues.
Erin Moore joins Mike and Nat this week to share her experience as a survivor of the Phoenix House program, and to join in reviewing The Last Stop. It’s a compelling episode that strikes at the heart of the “troubled teen” movement and asks why there has been little to no oversight of these largely unregulated facilities.
Plus, the week in review and the usual hijinks on an out-of-control, questionably therapeutic, deep in the woods episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages.
LINKS:
The Last Stop is available here----> Use this link and help out RMA~! https://amzn.to/3GcYP9O
Erin Moore
https://fallingphoenix.com/
Recovery News You Can Use
https://www.soberliningsplaybook.com/
Recovery in the News:
Caging the Drunkards!
Lawmakers want to strengthen access to non-religious substance abuse treatment services
The Week in Weird:
Einstein Examined Alien Craft in Roswell in 1947
Tell Us Your Ghost Story:
Email Mike at MikeR@middleagesrecovery.com
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Check out the website:
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While you’re there, buy a T-Shirt and support your favorite recovery podcast.
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
Addiction Recovery Podcast