Ep 42 - To God, to Ourselves and to another Human Being In this episode, Jeffrey and Troy discuss the depth behind this phrase within the fifth step, and how to apply this thinking to our daily life in recovery. Addiction is a threefold disease: the allergy of the body, the obsession of the mind, and the spiritual malady. So we have a threefold solution: receving support from God, ourselves, and another human being. In whatever conception of God (Higher Power) that works for us. The fifth step i...
Jul 25, 2025•47 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Jeffrey and Troy talk about how in 12 step programs, we are encouraged to define our own conception of our higher power. Nobody will force on you a certain belief system in 12 step programs, which is a relief to many newcomers. They discuss how their own conceptions of God have changed over the course of their recovedy journey, touch on atheism in recovery, as well as give advice to newcomers who are just getting started with "the God concept". Hope you enjoy this episode! Send us an anonymous t...
May 01, 2025•56 min•Season 1Ep. 41
In this epsiode, Jeffrey and Troy discuss the somewhat touchy subject of day count. Day count in AA or other substance abuse programs represents a tangible metric of sobriety. But what about in the Sex and Porn addiction space? Day count can be somewhat difficult to determine because there are so many behaviors that may be unhealthy for us, rather than simply one thing. Jeffrey and Troy share their experiences with day count in all of their program contexts, and intend to relay a message of hope...
Mar 24, 2025•44 min•Season 1Ep. 40
In this episode, Jeffrey and Troy share their experience around the idea of "wearing life like a loose garment". Sometimes taking a step back to recover from life, and even from "recovery fatigue" is important. To stay sober, we also have to live our lives, do our work, and pursue our interests, as well as embrace the 12 step tools. Jeffrey and Troy discuss the importance of finding balance in life and recovery in order to "live life like a loose garment". Send us an anonymous text message letti...
Feb 19, 2025•44 min•Season 1Ep. 39
In this episode, Jeffrey and Troy are accompanied by the legendary Bill and Doctor Bob, straight from 1935. The four of them discuss the sixth step, and what it means to be "entirely ready". This step is often overlooked, but it is critical in overcoming the character defects that keep us mired in our addictive behaviors. Even in sobriety, these defects can prevent us from living a contented, happy life. Also Jeffrey and Troy apologize for not getting an episode out in December! Jeffrey started ...
Jan 06, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 38
Jeffrey and Troy discuss how the internet has dramatically changed the landscape of access to sexually stimulating content. The internet is a dangerous place for sex and porn addicts, and the two discuss their experiences around how to define stimulating content as "porn", and admit powerlessness over ALL of it. Whether or not it would normally be considered pornography. Send us an anonymous text message letting us know enjoy the show! Standard texting fees apply. If you have suggestions for fut...
Nov 08, 2024•30 min
Jeffrey and Troy discuss the benefits of a creative practice to help us stay free from our addictive behaviors. When we are living our lives and creating, we stay away from isolating and self-destruction. Send us an anonymous text message letting us know enjoy the show! Standard texting fees apply. If you have suggestions for future episodes or questions, feel free to email us at info@recoverynerdpod.com! We're on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, and Google (and some others). If you use those pl...
Oct 02, 2024•36 min
Jeffrey and Troy discuss the dangers of how our addiction continues to progress, getting worse and worse. Because of that, we need our recovery to be equally progressive; engaging deeper each day to improve our quality of life and reach closer towards maintaining the state of serenity that our higher power wants for all of us. Send us an anonymous text message letting us know enjoy the show! Standard texting fees apply. If you have suggestions for future episodes or questions, feel free to email...
Sep 04, 2024•33 min
In this episode, Jeffrey and Troy, along with their esteemed guest Bill W, discuss the important slogan of “shame to grace”. They touch on how shame drags us back into the addiction, and how we find hope in recovery and gain the grace we need to stay sober from our higher power. Send us an anonymous text message letting us know enjoy the show! Standard texting fees apply. If you have suggestions for future episodes or questions, feel free to email us at info@recoverynerdpod.com! We're on Spotify...
Aug 01, 2024•43 min
Jeffrey and Troy discuss the important of outside help. Outside issues are generally discouraged from discussion in 12 step meetings, but that doesn't mean that outside factors can't supplement our recovery. Jeffrey and Troy discuss how medication, therapy, religion, and other topics aid in their ability to stay sober one day at a time. Send us an anonymous text message letting us know enjoy the show! Standard texting fees apply. If you have suggestions for future episodes or questions, feel fre...
Jul 01, 2024•38 min
In this episode, Jeffrey and Troy discuss the importance of trusting God (Higher Power) in our everyday lives as addicts. No matter what challenges life throws our way, we can get through it unscathed with the help of Higher Power. However, trusting God is not easy. In fact it can be very, very difficult. Jeffrey and Troy share their journeys around how they try their best to trust God in everyday life, albeit imperfectly. Send us an anonymous text message letting us know enjoy the show! Standar...
Jun 02, 2024•41 min
Jeffrey and Troy discuss the importance of prioritizing recovery, and treating it as the most important thing in our lives. It has been said that "anything we put before our recovery, we will lose anyway". Tune into this episode for some experience, strength, and hope. Send us an anonymous text message letting us know enjoy the show! Standard texting fees apply. If you have suggestions for future episodes or questions, feel free to email us at info@recoverynerdpod.com! We're on Spotify, Apple Po...
May 01, 2024•32 min
Dr. Jeffrey and Mr. Troy discuss the importance of consistency in recovery versus intensity. Sometimes people think it's best to hit 3 meetings every day, but why not hit a meeting a day first? They allude to athletic training where consistency is more useful than the intensity of a workout. The same applies for recovery as well. Send us an anonymous text message letting us know enjoy the show! Standard texting fees apply. If you have suggestions for future episodes or questions, feel free to em...
Apr 11, 2024•41 min
Jeffrey and Troy discuss why the 12 steps are the backbone of the program. 12 step recovery groups are not just accountability groups. They offer mentorship, fellowship, and a "design for living that really works". Most people don't need a book to teach them how to live, but we certainly did. The twelve steps have been helping addicts of all varieties get sober ever since their conception in the 1930s by Bill W and Dr. Bob. We are very grateful for them, and for the first 100 sober members of AA...
Mar 03, 2024•45 min
Jeffrey and Troy discuss the importance of Sponsorship as a must-have tool to assist in our 12 step addiction recovery. It has been said "if I don't have a sponsor, I'm sponsoring myself", and I certainly don't know what I'm doing. They discuss the role of a sponsor and what it's like to be a sponsor and a sponsee. Send us an anonymous text message letting us know enjoy the show! Standard texting fees apply. If you have suggestions for future episodes or questions, feel free to email us at info@...
Feb 20, 2024•29 min
Jeffrey and Troy finally meet for the first time at a sexual recovery 12 step retreat. They have a candid conversation reflecting on the retreat, asking probing questions about each other, and sharing from a place of sincerity and vulnerability. This is our longest episode by far because we wanted to give you a lot of content to digest. Thanks for supporting us in our first year of the podcast 🙏. Send us an anonymous text message letting us know enjoy the show! Standard texting fees apply. If y...
Jan 01, 2024•1 hr 9 min
Troy and Jeffrey talk about what they consider to be the difference between abstinence and sobriety. Often times these terms are used interchangeably. But what does it really mean to be sober, and feel free from addictive cravings? Send us an anonymous text message letting us know enjoy the show! Standard texting fees apply. If you have suggestions for future episodes or questions, feel free to email us at info@recoverynerdpod.com! We're on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, and Google (and some o...
Dec 13, 2023•43 min
Jeffrey and Troy discuss how change is to be expected in the recovery process. We change home meetings, sponsors, even 12 step programs. Nothing is necessarily constant in recovery. Sponsees disappear, good friends leave program. But Jeffrey and Troy share how they have undergone changes in their recovery and how it is ultimately for the better in the end! Send us an anonymous text message letting us know enjoy the show! Standard texting fees apply. If you have suggestions for future episodes or...
Nov 08, 2023•40 min
Jeffrey and Troy discuss the part of the eleventh step that mentions our need to maintain conscious contact with our higher power. The eleventh step reads: "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understand God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry it out". Jeffrey and Troy discuss their experiences maintaining contact with a power greater than themselves and how that benefits their recovery. Send us an anonymous tex...
Oct 15, 2023•40 min
Jeffrey and Troy discuss their prayer practices and how important dedication to prayer is to sustain sobriety in 12 step addiction recovery programs. Send us an anonymous text message letting us know enjoy the show! Standard texting fees apply. If you have suggestions for future episodes or questions, feel free to email us at info@recoverynerdpod.com! We're on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, and Google (and some others). If you use those platforms you can follow the podcast and turn on notifica...
Sep 09, 2023•39 min
Jeffrey and Troy discuss how to keep a mindset that helps us stay positive despite setbacks in recovery, and how letting go of negativity can help us stay sober from our addictions! Send us an anonymous text message letting us know enjoy the show! Standard texting fees apply. If you have suggestions for future episodes or questions, feel free to email us at info@recoverynerdpod.com! We're on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, and Google (and some others). If you use those platforms you can follow ...
Aug 09, 2023•34 min
Jeffrey and Troy get current with their recovery and discuss all the amazing things that have happened in their lives since getting sober. Send us an anonymous text message letting us know enjoy the show! Standard texting fees apply. If you have suggestions for future episodes or questions, feel free to email us at info@recoverynerdpod.com! We're on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, and Google (and some others). If you use those platforms you can follow the podcast and turn on notifications for n...
Jul 16, 2023•35 min
Jeffrey and Troy discuss the importance of in person meetings, fellowship, and sponsorship despite the accessibility of Zoom meetings. Send us an anonymous text message letting us know enjoy the show! Standard texting fees apply. If you have suggestions for future episodes or questions, feel free to email us at info@recoverynerdpod.com! We're on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, and Google (and some others). If you use those platforms you can follow the podcast and turn on notifications for new e...
Jul 01, 2023•30 min
Jeffrey and Troy discuss how the 12 steps promise a serene and joyful life, and that Higher Power wants us to be "Happy, Joyous, and Free"! Send us an anonymous text message letting us know enjoy the show! Standard texting fees apply. If you have suggestions for future episodes or questions, feel free to email us at info@recoverynerdpod.com! We're on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, and Google (and some others). If you use those platforms you can follow the podcast and turn on notifications for ...
Jun 17, 2023•35 min
Troy and Jeffrey talk about how complacency can be dangerous and lead to relapse. Jeffrey gets current about his own recovery and the steps he's taking to drag himself out of complacency after a vacation. Send us an anonymous text message letting us know enjoy the show! Standard texting fees apply. If you have suggestions for future episodes or questions, feel free to email us at info@recoverynerdpod.com! We're on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, and Google (and some others). If you use those pl...
Jun 04, 2023•38 min
Jeffrey and Troy discuss how addicts tend to beat themselves up, and how moving past this common behavior can help us live a more contented sobriety. Send us an anonymous text message letting us know enjoy the show! Standard texting fees apply. If you have suggestions for future episodes or questions, feel free to email us at info@recoverynerdpod.com! We're on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, and Google (and some others). If you use those platforms you can follow the podcast and turn on notifica...
May 19, 2023•37 min
Jeffrey and Troy talk about the importance of service as a way to maintain sobriety. They discuss how the 12th step is not just the "sponsorship step", and that everyone can work the 12th step, no matter how far into the program one is. Send us an anonymous text message letting us know enjoy the show! Standard texting fees apply. If you have suggestions for future episodes or questions, feel free to email us at info@recoverynerdpod.com! We're on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, and Google (and s...
May 06, 2023•37 min
Jeffrey and troy discuss the slippery slope zone that is the middle circle and how the three A's can help us escape that rabbit hole. We apologize for the audio quality in this episode. Jeffrey was recording from a hotel room with his air pods. We don't expect this to happen often, so next episode will get back to the normal audio quality. Thanks to all our dedicated listeners! Send us an anonymous text message letting us know enjoy the show! Standard texting fees apply. If you have suggestions ...
Apr 23, 2023•39 min
Jeffrey and Troy discuss the challenge of balancing work, life, and recovery, and the tools they use to stay grounded in their program when life gets busy. Send us an anonymous text message letting us know enjoy the show! Standard texting fees apply. If you have suggestions for future episodes or questions, feel free to email us at info@recoverynerdpod.com! We're on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, and Google (and some others). If you use those platforms you can follow the podcast and turn on no...
Apr 07, 2023•42 min
Jeffrey and Troy talk about the importance of connecting to and maintaining a relationship with a higher power to have a contented sobriety from addictions. Oftentimes newcomers become wary when people in the rooms mention "God" or "Higher Power", so Jeffrey and Troy explain how they use this very important recovery concept in their lives. Send us an anonymous text message letting us know enjoy the show! Standard texting fees apply. If you have suggestions for future episodes or questions, feel ...
Mar 24, 2023•41 min
