Recovering Out Loud

Perception vs. perspective in addiction recovery: why your gut read isn't the truth — and how to change where you're standing. Someone doesn't text back and your brain has the whole movie written in half a second...

Getting sober doesn't fix your life. It gives you a chance to fix it. Ten harsh truths from 11 years in recovery. Nobody really tells you about the hard parts of addiction recovery — or if they do, you're not ready to...

What's the real difference between an alcoholic and a normal drinker? Old-timer Bob D. has an answer. In this Borrowed Wisdom episode, Anthony breaks down a speaker talk from Bob D. on the disease of alcoholism — and...

Sobriety didn't switch off my alcoholic thinking. 5 things I still do in addiction recovery — and how I catch them. Putting down the drink and the drug was the start, not the finish. My problem was never just drugs and...

Staying sober through adversity while you're still in it — not the highlight reel after. This one's recorded from inside the hard middle. I'm in the middle of something with school right now that could change my path...

Relapse is emotional before it's physical. The 5 slow killers that take us out — and how to get ahead of each one before it gets ahead of you. None of these five feel like drinking. They feel like normal life — a grudge...

Everybody hands you a journal in early recovery and says "use it" — nobody tells you what to do with it. So this episode is the missing manual: six journaling techniques (plus a bonus), what each one is actually for...

How addiction treatment went from moral failing to disease to harm reduction — 240 years of recovery history, told through lived experience. This is a peer recovery podcast, not medical advice. I'm Anthony, an alcoholic...

Ten honest lessons from another sober summer — victimhood, relapse, isolation, service, and faith. Summer's over and I'm back to school for my counseling diploma, so this one is a reflection on getting another summer...

My real problem was never the drugs or alcohol. It was King Baby — the toddler ego running my life. In 2015, in treatment at Hazelden, I read a little pamphlet by Tom Cunningham called King Baby . It rewired how I saw...

Nobody warns you sobriety can make anxiety louder, not quieter — here's why, and what actually helps. When you put down the drink or the drug, the anxiety you were medicating doesn't vanish. It gets uncovered. In this...

Willpower won't keep you sober — it's a battery, and it drains. In this solo episode of Recovering Out Loud, Anthony makes the case that year one isn't about white-knuckling, it's about building: constructing the...

Perfectionism isn't a personality quirk — it's a documented relapse risk, and it doesn't switch off just because you got sober. In this solo episode of Recovering Out Loud, Anthony unpacks how the same engine that drove...

Surrender sounded like giving up — until it became the thing that finally let me stop losing. For years I thought surrender meant waving the white flag: defeat, quitting, rolling over. My ego hated it. This solo episode...

Working the steps gets you sober. Living the principles keeps you there. All 12 — and why they hold. My mentor asks me one question: "How are you living today, Anthony?" It's easy to be a star in the rooms — shake...