The Recovery Guide

Michelle DeMicco was in and out of rehab six times before she turned 21. Nearly 19 years sober now, she'll tell you the sobriety was just the beginning. What came after—the mindset work, the spiritual growth, learning...

David Niknafs, was born with Cystic Fibrosis, a chronic illness he was told he might not outlive. Growing up, people didn't ask him what he wanted to be. They asked when he was going to die. He formed friendships with...

Celeste Bowman was 23 when she was diagnosed with HIV. In the early years, the diagnosis felt less like a medical reality and more like a verdict—she says plainly that it was hard for a 23-year-old to grapple with...

By the time Adam Jablin was 30, he had the life he was supposed to want. A family business he'd spent his life stepping into, a wife, a home, a body he'd sculpted through years of competitive bodybuilding. From the...

For years, Melissa McGovern tried to get sober on her own terms—cutting out alcohol for a while, feeling great, then slowly letting it creep back in under the guise of moderation. The cycle repeated more than once. Then...

The assumption is almost always money. If someone in a Black community isn't getting access to treatment, the reason "must be" that they can't afford it. Rick Hubbard has a hard piece of evidence against that. There was...

Eight and a half years into recovery, and Kevin Lanning puts most of his healing in the last two. For five of those years he stayed sober and did the work as it was handed to him—made amends, kept commitments, sponsored...

Keesha Scott knows addiction from the inside. As an author, a podcast host, and the co-founder of Guardian Recovery, she's built her life's work around helping others navigate parenting and addiction, but her own story...

Shon Tripp grew up in a one-room shack with an outhouse in unincorporated Johnson County, one of five kids in a family where addiction and mental illness went unnamed — just "dysfunction." She became the family...

What happens when someone loses everything... and decides to rebuild from the ground up? Derek Lewis shares his remarkable journey from addiction, multiple arrests, and prison to becoming the owner of one of South...

In this episode, Craig Robinson shares how his own recovery journey reshaped his life, gave him a deeper sense of purpose, and ultimately led him to help families navigate one of the most painful situations imaginable...

In this episode of The Recovery Guide Podcast, we sit down with Marc Kantor for a powerful conversation about addiction, intervention, family support, enabling, food addiction, and what long-term recovery really...

Today, Danielle Sharpe shares her powerful story of addiction, trauma, survival, and recovery in this deeply honest conversation about rebuilding a life from the ground up. Growing up around addiction and chaos...

<p>Today we sit down with mental health professional John Puls to discuss the growing mental health crisis, the dangerous rise of high-potency THC, the failures within addiction treatment, and why recovery needs to...

<p>Sex addiction is one of the most misunderstood and hidden addictions—and it’s affecting more people than you think.<br> In this episode, we sit down with sex addiction therapist Kim Litton to break down the truth...