"How sorry are you that you didn't get on this ride?!" Amy Dresner is a former professional stand-up comic, having appeared at The Comedy Store, The Laugh Factory, and The Improv. Since 2012, she has been a contributing editor for the online addiction and recovery magazine TheFix.com. She’s also freelanced for the Good Men Project, The Frisky, Refinery 20, and has been a regular contributor to Addiction.com and PsychologyToday.com, where she has her own addiction blog. http://amydresner.com/ ___...
Sep 14, 2017•1 hr 5 min
NOTE: The first 5 minutes of Erin on mic are VERY hard to hear her. Then it gets better. My fault. —Chris “This is my life and it's a fight for it.” Erin Shaw Street is a writer, editor, and content strategist based in Birmingham, Alabama. Her nearly 20-year career has taken her to just about every corner of the media, where she’s covered health and wellness, and travel and culture. Erin’s sobriety date is March 12, 2016. Her passion is to draw from her experience in media and as a woman in reco...
Sep 07, 2017•1 hr 12 min
"We'd be fighting right now in a gutter." We finally turn the mics on about 2 minutes in and we talk OTC solutions for addiction and little bit of gratitude.
Aug 31, 2017•48 min
"If you're looking for context to solve all your problems, you'll never solve all your problems. You are the problem." The guys talk about anger and its permutations.
Aug 24, 2017•56 min
“Could I kill myself without it hurting? Or go to Europe and change my identity?” Michael King is the National Director of Outreach & Engagement for Facing Addiction, a national non-profit organization whose primary mission is to unify the voices of the 45 million Americans directly impacted by addiction. In his position, Michael works with and to expand Facing Addiction's coalition of partnering organizations, the Facing Addiction Action Network. In the past, Michael worked for over a decad...
Aug 09, 2017•55 min
Jeff's back, Matt's out, plant medicine is discussed and stick around to the end for a very special surprise guest. __________ Themes: @djfmdotcom
Aug 03, 2017•36 min
"Plant-based medicine is the new paradigm in treating addiction and depression." Scott began his career in the healing field, utilizing his inherent intuitive gifts as a life coach and sober companion while working at a luxury residential treatment facility in Malibu, California. From there he went on to design, and co-create a concierge detoxification program in Santa Monica, California. Later he became the director of a sub-acute residential detoxification facility, as well as an owner/operato...
Jul 27, 2017•1 hr 4 min
"I was so horribly offended—like she had accused me of pedophilia. Me?! I don't need one of those meetings!" Rea Bochner is a writer, musician, and mother. She wrote her first haiku in third grade and has been writing ever since. “The Cape House” is her debut memoir.
Jul 20, 2017•53 min
Nelsan Ellis, the shaming obituary for a great-grandmother, the immediate intimacy of Friends (and acquaintances) of Bill, and much, much MORE!
Jul 13, 2017•1 hr 3 min
Hey, look! It's the first episode of Season 4! With Refuge Recovery founder, Noah Levine! Exclamation point!
Jul 05, 2017•52 min
About an hour after the show ended I got an email from Alice apologizing for getting her days mixed up. D'oh! With HP as my witness, she will be on the show. Someday. In her absence we talked about a wide range of issues not the least of which was the passing of Carrie Fisher.
Jun 22, 2017•55 min
The boys went to a Refuge Recovery meeting and found it refreshingly light on the dogma and heavy on the karma.
Jun 15, 2017•47 min
Contentment. A great feeling? Or, the best feeling? Also, alcohol causes cancer.
Jun 08, 2017•47 min
Matt & Chris cover a wide range of topics. Did Matt ever score on Silk Road? Can shrooms cure alcoholism? Are we cynical assholes? Find out the answers and more in this episode.
Jun 01, 2017•49 min
Scott Steven of TheAlcohologist.com joins us to discuss the health risks of alcohol and it's impact on healthcare and society.
May 25, 2017•1 hr 3 min
Are non-alcoholic beverages only for non-alcoholics? Burning question? Or burning desire? Just the boys again, talking the Trump administration's dismantling of all the addiction and recovery progress made by the previous administration, N.A. beer, Refuge Recovery, and more.
May 16, 2017•53 min
"I need to remember how bad it was and how bad it could have been.”—Chris as his 20th year of sobriety nears. Jeff & Chris discuss long-term sobriety, meeting others of our kind in the wild and how others' stories can help remind us of what we've gained in sobriety.
May 11, 2017•55 min
"Fuck, I'm Ben Affleck."—Chris on our sobro casting in our Since Right Now biopic. Chris is back from Europe and the gang's back together! Topics: N.A. beer, Brad Pitt, anonymity, and more!
May 03, 2017•53 min
“Please listen responsibly." Some old favorites are back again: depression, anxiety, resentments, to go to meetings or not, what we drank—or didn't, getting out of our own heads and more! Last episode before a 3 week! hiatus. Yikes.
Apr 05, 2017•1 hr 1 min
“You have to put a wall around Purdue Pharma."—Jeff on preventative wall placement. The boys discuss Buddhism and psyche themselves up to go to a Refuge Recovery meeting, they express skepticism that "He" will do anything of note to support prevention and recovery efforts (unless you count wasting a tremendous amount of money on building a wall,) they discuss whether or not Chris has relapsed (!,) smoking crack the wrong way, and more!
Mar 29, 2017•1 hr 7 min
"My dad asked me if you could go anywhere and do anything, what would you do? And I said, I'd go back to bed."—Wilson on depression in early recovery. Lift Heavy, Run Long: https://www.liftheavyrunlong.com/ _________ Themes by @djfmdotcom
Mar 23, 2017•58 min
"I couldn't just run two miles, I had to run a marathon." —Jennifer on her 'all or nothing' nature Jennifer O of The First 500 on The Recovery Revolution joins us in studio.
Mar 09, 2017•1 hr 10 min
"The personal is political." Jeff, Matt, & Chris break one of the taboo topics on the show and discuss recovery in context of the current political atmosphere.
Mar 02, 2017•56 min
Ryan Hampton & Garrett Hade of http://AddictionXAmerica.com ____________ Themes by @djfmdotcom
Feb 16, 2017•1 hr 13 min
"I just want to be well in recovery." Liv Pennelle of http://LivsRecoveryKitchen.com Themes by @djfmdotcom
Feb 09, 2017•1 hr 6 min
Depression! Anxiety! Panic Attacks! It's all here folks. Themes by @djfmdotcom!
Feb 02, 2017•51 min
"(I was) having these moments where things were going really well and then things weren't going well and I didn't know why they were not going well.…'cause I thought I was trying." — Andy on the mysteries of the unsober Stand-up comedian and writer, Andy Haynes! http://ImAndyHaynes.com (Yes, the Outro accidentally recorded—wihout my knowing—over the beginning of the show. FML?) _____ Themes: @djfmdotcom
Jan 09, 2017•57 min
Do I really have to spell it out for you?
Jan 03, 2017•54 min
“You can’t fight your way out.” Chris on the fight-or-flight response to situations that trigger his social anxiety Get a pen and paper and make your own liner notes. Fun for you!
Dec 14, 2016•34 min
“It keeps a lot of people out.”—Jeff on the dogmatic requirement of a higher power in AA Jeff, Matt & Chris try to figure out what the difference is between religion and spirituality; if they're either; if they want either and they laugh at Jesus…the jacked, Korean Jesus that is.
Dec 08, 2016•53 min
