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RECO12

An Addiction Recovery Lunch-hour Speaker Meeting. A new guest speaker from any 12 Step fellowship who is actively working in recovery, will speak for 25 minutes each week on a specific recovery topic. This will be followed by a moderated 25 minute Q & A session from the live audience. The live speaker meetings will be held on Zoom each Friday at 10:00 AM Pacific time. To attend the live recordings and have the opportunity of asking questions of the guest, please send an email to

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All Episodes

55:42

Josh W - Embracing the Process, Not Just the Outcome...

RECO12 ·

2023/07/14

Josh is a grateful sex addict working his recovery. He has been sober since June 19, 2014. He found recovery in the synergistic relationship between therapy and 12 steps. As well as the grace and forgiveness he received from his wife and his God. He started attending SA for 2 years and then was introduced to SAL and has been attending SAL 12 Step for over 7 years. As part of his recovery journey he felt called by God to share his experience, strength and hope. He did so in group meetings,

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56:34

Amanda B - Sponsorship: The Pipeline to Power -...

RECO12 ·

2023/07/07

Amanda B came into the rooms of SLAA at the end of June 2022 but quickly found her way to Big Book Sponsorship and jumped straight into the steps with her sponsor. She has found the solution to all her problems by following the instructions that are offered in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. Amanda B loves hearing the stories of others in recovery and finds that she can relate to people in every 12 step recovery room. She finds the similarities and knows she’s not alone. You can find Amanda

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58:33

Sean B - Getting Back to the Basics - Meeting 172

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2023/06/30

Sean B came into the rooms of AA on May 22nd, 2019 after coming to the realization that he was unable to regulate his emotional state without a drink. He quickly recognized there was a large gap between the expectation of where he thought he would be in life and the reality of where he was. While he was able to stay sober for a year, he half measured the steps and didn’t make much spiritual progress.On February 27th, 2020, he came into the Big Book Sponsorshipfellowship and threw himself into the

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54:59

Justin B - Reco12: Then, Now, and Next Steps -...

RECO12 ·

2023/06/23

Justin B is a multi-disciplinary addict (sex and food), living in the miracle of recovery in the rooms since 2013 and sober since 2015 in sex addiction and 2021 in food addiction. He is the steward of the Reco12 family of recovery resources and in this share he give some of his story of recovery and a report on Reco12, then, now, and the steps that are next. In the Q and A portion he answers several questions about Step 11 work and the vital importance of connection with others in his

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57:49

Young L - We Have Entered the World of the Spirit -...

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2023/06/16

Young found the 12 step rooms in 2010 after losing everything due to his daily heroin, crack and alcohol addiction. He didn't take any of the 12 steps and spent the next 8 years in and out of detox units and treatment centers. He was separated from all mind altering substances Christmas eve 2018 and since that moment has thrown himself into a spiritual life and helping others. Young speaks to us today of the power of entering into the world of the spirit and the 10th Step Promises of Alcoholics

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56:55

Tom L - No Longer Running the Show - Meeting 169

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2023/06/09

At 33, recovery found Tom obese, isolated, and dependent on welfare and disability payments. Deeply unhappy and ashamed of what he had become, he had no idea he was an addict. Fifteen years later, healthy, employed, married, and living free from life threatening addiction, he was shown that normal living was not enough to keep from returning to insanity, that for him the spiritual life cannot be just a theory. Tom will speak to us today on how he is No Longer Running the Show.Reco12 is an

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46:11

Anita H - Be Loud About It - Meeting 168

RECO12 ·

2023/06/07

Hi! I am Anita born and raised in Spokane WA. I was a chef and cook until my disease of alcoholism grew to something I could not handle anymore. Through the years I’ve faced many traumatic events which in turn made my life spiral down fast. In 2018 I got so sick from my alcoholism it nearly killed me. I spent most of the year in and out of the hospital, and still am battling my never ending health decline to this day. Anita shares in this conversation the importance of being loud about it and

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54:30

Irvin S - The Power of a Growing Faith - Meeting 167

RECO12 ·

2023/06/02

Irvin S is a recovering addict to lust, who has fallen in love with the results of the steps of AA and SAL. Irvin S is a husband and father of two who finds strength in submitting to his Higher Power. He shares today on his realization of the power of a growing faith in his recovery journey to this point.Reco12 is an organization with the mission of learning and sharing the similarities of addiction of all kinds and gaining and sharing tools and hope from others who are walking a similar path. We

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59:28

Karen A - Using the Big Book in People and...

RECO12 ·

2023/05/25

Karen A. from Jerusalem, Israel is a proud Mommy and member of the Spiritual Gangsters fellowship. Karen had addiction running through her family and lost her baby brother to an accidental morphine overdose when he was just three days out of rehab. In 2014, Karen entered the rooms of OA when her doctor said she had the 4Fs - female, fertile, fat, and forty! She knew that a spiritual approach was the only solution to her food problem and all of life's other challenges, such as codependency,

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62:51

Rhyll C - Detaching with Love - Meeting 165

RECO12 ·

2023/05/19

Rhyll is a founder and Vice President of SA Lifeline Foundation and a family and community advocate. S.A. Lifeline is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to providing hope, education, and resources related to pornography and sexual addiction recovery and the related betrayal trauma healing. Recognizing the critical importance of working 12-step for long term healing, SA Lifeline also offers SAL 12-step recovery, a free resource for those struggling with sexual addiction and betrayed partners. Rhyll is

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61:09

Harvey E - The Power of the Pause - Meeting 164

RECO12 ·

2023/05/12

Harvey E in Toronto is a 68 year old Orthodox Jew, who, together with his wife, Sharon, have five married children and 20 grandchildren. He joined SA in January 7th, 2014, on the recommendation of his new therapist. At the time, his marriage of 36 years was in serious trouble, he had recently been arrested for acting out behaviors going back 40 years, and he was suffering unbearable shame, shunned by his community and many of his family members. He recently celebrated 3400 consecutive days of

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55:14

Joseph O - Page 63 of the Big Book of AA - Meeting 163

RECO12 ·

2023/05/11

Joseph O. grew up on Long Island, New York. He graduated college with degrees in Psychology & Economics, but he would say his real major was Independent Study in Drugs & Behavior. He made a geographic shift to Los Angeles to get away from his drinking companions & start fresh but still made no real investment in Recovery. In LA he maintained some abstinence over 10 months or so but picked up again when a girlfriend moved on. Very rapidly he lost his job, apartment, and car and found

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53:07

Josephine A - Seeing God Through Another's Eyes -...

RECO12 ·

2023/05/05

Josephine came into the rooms early 2020 more than 3 years ago after countless failed attempts to stop drinking. Little did Josephine know that putting down the drink was the start of what has been, and is the hardest, AND most rewarding part of her life so far. Josephine started drinking at 11 years old and is a blackout addict by her own words. She has been in and out of the rooms of AA, SLAA, CoDA, CA, DA, Greysheet, and OA. Only when Josephine wanted to die in recovery, feeling desperate and

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60:14

Laura Palmer - Taking the Shame Out of Addiction -...

RECO12 ·

2023/04/28

Laura is a mom of 4 who started struggling with a pain pill addiction with her last baby. Her struggle got terrible due to an epidural injury. The next 2 years were chaos and a decline that she didn’t even know was possible. She racked up 5 felonies and jail and prison time and thousands of dollars in fees and penalties. But her Higher Power, Christ saw her out of her addiction and now she gets to help others eliminate the shame in their own addiction story and find @the.road.back. Which, by the

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63:06

Sean B - Be Still and Know God - Meeting 160

RECO12 ·

2023/04/21

Sean came into the rooms of AA on May 22nd, 2019 after coming to the realization that he was unable to regulate his emotional state without a drink. Hequickly recognized there was a large gap between the expectation of where hethought he would be in life and the reality of where he was. Whilehe was able to stay sober for a year, he half measured the steps and didn’tmake much spiritual progress. On February 27th, 2020, he came into the Spiritual Gangsters fellowship and threw himself into the steps,

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62:41

Evie S - Life Changes Over 35 Years in Recovery -...

RECO12 ·

2023/04/14

Evie has been in CoDA for 35 years and has done service throughout most of that time at every level of the Fellowship in three different CoDA communities and at the world level. She found CoDA after many years of therapy and other personal development efforts and believes that CoDA and the 12 steps have given her the most important tools she needed to heal her relationships especially with members of her family of origin. She met the love of her life through recovery and they were together for 31

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61:10

Leila J - Recovery Essentials - Honesty,...

RECO12 ·

2023/04/07

Leila is gratefully thriving and prospering in all of her fellowships. It is through rigorously working the 12 steps that she has found peace, serenity and joy in her life today. The 12 steps have given Leila the community, solution and recipe for living that she never knew she always needed. She has started two SLAA meetings which combined have over 300 joining participants every week. She is passionate about being of service and works this program as seriously as she worked her addiction(s). She

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18:46

Justin's Mistake Part 2 - Meeting 157 with Anita H

RECO12 ·

2023/03/31

Well... I did it again... for the second time in 157 meetings. I forgot to hit record when we started the meeting. I will keep the summary of things below of what she talked about, and this quick recording is me trying to summarize Anita's share as well as taking responsibility for my error. As was brought up in the meeting, "We will not regret the past, nor wish to shut the door on it." Well... as much as I currently regret that I messed this up, I trust that soon enough, it can

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55:49

Lenette M - Living Step 10 - Meeting 156

RECO12 ·

2023/03/24

Lenette came to SLAA back in 2014. She had gone thru a divorce and her addiction really surfaced shortly after. How her sex and love addiction shows up is that she feels she must be validated and chosen. She ripped thru peoples’ lives and hurt many. Only thinking of herself. Lenette’s codependency shows up when in a relationship. This looks like her micromanaging and pretty much giving up her life for her partner. Lenette started her steps for the first time in 2014 with a sponsor when she

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55:42

Peg O'Connor - Higher and Friendly Powers - Meeting 155

RECO12 ·

2023/03/17

Peg O’Connor, Ph.D., is a Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. Her training is in moral philosophy, feminist philosophy, addiction studies, and the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. She believes that philosophy helped her to get and remain sober. Avoiding Alcoholics Anonymous for the first 20 years of her sobriety because of the concept of a “higher power,” she is focused on using some of the great canonical thinkers in western philosophy to illuminate dimensions

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