RAW Recovery Podcast

Integrity
What does it really mean to live with integrity?
We talk a lot about honesty in recovery, but integrity goes beyond simply telling the truth. It's about doing the right thing, even when nobody is watching. It's about keeping our word, taking responsibility for our actions, and living by the principles we claim to believe in.
Today on The Daily Trudge, we're talking about integrity and the role it plays in our recovery.
Can we be honest without having integrity? What happens when our actions don't match our words? And how do we rebuild integrity after years of broken promises, dishonesty, and self-centered behavior?
Recovery gives us an opportunity to become people we can respect. But that requires more than talking about change. It requires living it.
Are we practicing these principles in all our affairs, or only when it's convenient?
Join the conversation. Let's talk about it.
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Are We Restored To Sanity?
Step Two tells us that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. But what does being restored to sanity actually mean?
Does it mean we never make another bad decision? That our thinking is suddenly fixed? Or is the sanity we're talking about something much more specific to alcoholism?
Today on The Daily Trudge, we're digging into Step Two and the meaning of being restored to sanity. We'll explore the insanity of the first drink, the difference between sobriety and recovery, and how our thinking and behavior change as we work the Twelve Steps.
Just because we've stopped drinking doesn't mean every decision we make is sane. So how do we recognize when our old thinking is taking over, and what do we do about it?
Are we restored to sanity, or are we still working toward it?
Join the conversation. Let's talk about it.
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True Tolerance
What does it really mean to practice tolerance in recovery?
It's easy to be tolerant of people who think like us, believe what we believe, and live the way we live. But what happens when someone challenges our beliefs, disagrees with us, or lives a completely different way?
Today on The Daily Trudge, we're talking about true tolerance and what it means to practice patience, understanding, and acceptance without compromising our own principles.
Alcoholics Anonymous teaches us to practice love and tolerance of others as our code. But are we actually living that principle, or are we only tolerant when it's convenient?
We'll explore the difference between tolerance and approval, how judgment and resentment interfere with our spiritual condition, and why we don't have to agree with someone to treat them with dignity and respect.
True tolerance isn't just something we talk about. It's something we demonstrate through our actions.
Join the conversation. Let's talk about it.
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I Am Responsible...
What does it really mean to be responsible in recovery?
In Alcoholics Anonymous, we talk a lot about taking responsibility for our actions, our recovery, and our relationships with others. But responsibility goes beyond simply admitting when we're wrong.
Today on The Daily Trudge, we're talking about what it means to be responsible for our own recovery and what happens when we stop expecting other people to do the work for us.
We'll also explore the AA Responsibility Statement and what it means to reach out to another alcoholic who needs help.
Recovery gives us a new way of living, but what are we doing with it?
Join the conversation. Let's talk about it.
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Does God Remove ALL Defects Of Character?
Step Seven tells us to humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings. But does that mean God removes every defect of character? And if He does, why do some of those same behaviors keep showing up in our lives?
Today on The Daily Trudge, we're talking about the difference between having our defects removed and continuing to work on ourselves. What does the Big Book actually say? Are we expecting God to do all the work, or do we have a responsibility in the process?
We'll explore humility, spiritual growth, and what it really means to have our character defects removed.
Join the conversation as we dig into Step Seven and the role God plays in our recovery.
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We Meet These Conditions Every Day
In the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, we're told that we are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition.
But what does that really mean?
We meet these conditions every day. Not just when life gets difficult, not just when we're struggling, and not just when we feel like it.
Today on The Daily Trudge, we're talking about what it means to maintain our spiritual condition, the responsibility we have for our recovery, and why the solution requires daily action.
Recovery isn't something we did yesterday. It's something we live today.
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Courage And Prudence
Courage tells us to move. Prudence tells us to pay attention to where we are going.
Recovery takes both. There are times when we need the courage to face something we have avoided, speak honestly, make a change, or take action. But courage without prudence can become recklessness, and prudence without courage can become fear dressed up as wisdom.
Today we’re talking about how to balance the two—when to step forward, when to slow down, and how recovery helps us learn the difference.
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H.O.W.
Honesty. Openness. Willingness.
Three simple words, but they can change the direction of our recovery. Honesty helps us see where we really are. Openness lets us hear something new. Willingness gets us moving.
Today we’re talking about what H.O.W. actually looks like in real life—not as a slogan, but as a way of approaching recovery, relationships, change, and the choices we make every day.
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Freedom to Choose
As Bill Sees It, page 124, talks about a kind of freedom that changes as we grow. At first, we may do the right thing because we have to. Then we begin doing it because we know we ought to. Eventually, the real freedom comes when we can make the right choice without fighting it every step of the way.
That is one of the gifts of recovery. We are no longer trapped into reacting the same way, making the same decision, or following the same old instinct just because that is what we have always done.
Freedom is not simply being able to do whatever we want. Sometimes freedom is finally being able to choose differently.
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The Greatest Gift Of All
Recovery gives us a lot more than just the ability to stop drinking. Over time, it can give us freedom from obsession, a clearer mind, stronger relationships, usefulness to others, and a deeper connection with God.
Today we’re talking about what the greatest gift of recovery really is. Is it sobriety itself, or is sobriety the doorway to everything that becomes possible afterward?
The longer we stay on this path, the more we begin to see that recovery is not just about what we stopped doing. It is about the life we are finally able to live.
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