Better Life in Recovery

David and Josh talk about the difference between realistic and unrealistic expectations, looking at ways that unrealistic expectations can set people up for disappointment and how realistic expectations help us prepare for the reality of the real world.

What does your rhythm look like? Do you live your life reactively, or are you able to have a proactive approach? Establishing a healthy rhythm in your life will help create balance, structure and the ability to live life to the fullest.

This week we sit down and have a conversation with Adrienne on a 10 Questions episode. Adrienne has been in a relationship for a year, has a 2 1/2 year old son and is the assistant manager of the recovery residence she lives in. She credits her recovery to her family, her boyfriend, support groups, living in a recovery residence and Vivitrol. Join us to hear a little bit of her story!

In this episode, we are doing 10 questions with Charles Romine. Charles has been in recovery for 3 years after using for 15 years. He started his recovery while in prison. Today, he is apprenticing to become a chaplain with Victory Mission's Restoration program, which is the same program he paroled out of prison to. His story is one of restoration with his kids and an amazing future he is building.

In this week’s podcast we are doing 10 Questions with Marlisha Jones. Marlisha is a person in long-term recovery. For her that means she has not used alcohol or other drugs since April 7th, 2009. She is currently working on getting her Certified Peer Specialist certification, works at the Springfield Recovery Community Center and has a local minister's license with the Church of the Nazarene working as the outreach minister for The Well Aurora.

On today's podcast we are doing 10 questions with Mike Miller. Mike is a person in long-term recovery. For him that means he has not used alcohol or other drugs since February 2nd, 2020 after using chaotically for 20 plus years. Today he is working as a Certified Peer Specialist for New Beginnings Sanctuary, which is an organization that provides recovery housing to almost 200 people around the state of Missouri!

Today we are doing a 10 questions episode with Wayne Pearmean, who after using chaotically for a decade now has 3 years in recovery. His pathway was using a 12 step program, and today he is attending Missouri State University majoring in Criminology and has gone through Basic 

Training and Advanced Individual Training in the US Army, and is working to be a commissioned officer.

Greene County, MO has seen a 120% increase in drug poisoning deaths when comparing January - June of 2020 to the same period in 2019. Something needs to be done, so we are building a task force to address the drug poisonings. We will have one podcast each month that outlines what we have done and are planning to do, in the hopes that if someone wants to build their own task force they can listen and see what we have done and learn from our successes and our mistakes.

I am a Recovery Coach Professional & consultant in long-term substance use and mental health recovery. My early career consisted of coordinating substance use recovery support activities and events, statewide conventions, bringing recovery meetings into jails and institutions and creating / co-facilitate the first youth-specific recovery support group in WI. I attended the Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) Recovery Coach Academy in June 2014 and have trained hundreds of coaches throughout the United States.

As a coach, consultant, and partner with Helios Recovery, I have facilitated numerous recovery capital development planning sessions and helped coach individuals and families in creating recovery plans and linkages to services. I served as an appointed member of the WI Governors State Opiate/Heroin Task Force, co-developed programming and facilitated training for coaches for Wisconsin’s first Recovery Coach AmeriCorps program call Recovery Corps. I received his Recovery Coach Professional Designation from the Center for Addiction Recovery Training (CART) in April of 2019 and is a core curriculum trainer. I live in WI with his wife and 4 children, enjoying all things in geek culture, disc golf, and coffee. I believe that Recovery is a process of moving from surviving to thriving as a whole person.

David and Josh have both had COVID, and on this podcast they share a little about their experience as well as the experiences of the loved ones they know who have been diagnosed with it. COVID is now one more thing they are both in recovery from, but that doesn't mean they are not experiencing lingering effects.