Roache On Recovery

Show Topic:  Inquiring minds want to know the following:  Can a sense of Entitlement be compatible with succeeding in Recovery?  Can a sense of Entitlement co-exist with Gratitude?  The prevailing attitudes, behaviors, and culture of the day now bring rise to these questions and the impact on ones Recovery process and the facilitation of treatment.     Show Segments:  Recap / News / Sports / Show Topic / Recovery Support Time 

Show Topic: When in recovery, cravings are like your antagonist. Picking at you, bothering you, infiltratiing your dreams, and even traumatizing some to the brink of relapse. Cravings however are a part of the recovery process, that almost everyone has or will experience at some point to varying degrees. How they are dealth with is key to not being overwhelmed by them, and ultimately feeding into them. We'll discuss some perspectives and methods for dealing with cravings. Show Segments: Recap / News / Sports / Show Topic / Recovery Support Time

SHOW TOPIC:  In honor of this years NFL draft coming up Friday we’re holding our own draft. Your humble hosts will each take turns drafting their favorite Unwritten Philosophies that they each deem integral to asuccessful recovery experience.    SHOW SEGMENTS: Recap/News/Sports, Show Topic, Recovery Support Time 

Show Topic:  After we settle in and adjust to the physical demands of treatment we are left with dealing with the man and woman in the mirror.  Often times this requires examining traumatic experiences that have negatively impacted our lives.  We’ll discuss some of the essential steps that one must take in order to successfully heal from the negative experiences   Show Segments: Recap / News / Sports, Show Topic, Recovery Support Time     

Show Topic:  How essential is it to have positive Role Models throughout the Treatment and Recovery process? It is extremely essential! It is just as essential and like a Recovery “twin” to surrounding yourself with positive peers.  We choose our Role Models versus them being assigned to us. Who we choose and why we choose them says a lot about us. Let’s discuss ......   Show Segments: Recap, News, Sports, Show Topic, Recovery Support Time 

Show Topic:  Why do so many addicts experience chronic relapse? Is it just the nature of the beast? Or, is it just their fault for not wanting recovery enough? Or, have we done a disservice to the Chronic Relapser? With the help of a great article by Andrew J. Moynihan, PhD, we’ll try to answer those questions.    Show Segments:  Recap, News, Sports, Show Topic, Recovery Support Time

REBOOT OF THE ORIGINAL POSTED SHOW DUE TO TECHNICAL DIFFICUTLIES

  * HOLIDAY SPECIAL * Show Topic:  The little ole pull-up. The most utilized, effective, but under appreciated tool in the Therapeutic Community, ones recovery process, AND life in general. We’ll discuss the sciencebehind it and the importance of the pull-up. In addition we’ll point out an amazing factoid about the Pull-up. Show Segments: Recap, News/Sports, Show Topic, Recovery Support Time 

Show Topic: On a few occassions one may be privy to the inside story of how a person in the early trimesters of recovery, experiences the decision to relapse while in treatment, is able to continue the recovery process, but ultimately decide to suspend their recovery experience by leaving treatment. We'll discuss one (or two) such story. We'll also touch on that age old question: Is there any intervention possible when one's mind is made up? Show Segments:  News-Sports-Recap, Show Topic, Recovery Support Time

SHOW TOPIC(s): We’ll review and discuss: 1. Our recent Graduation ceremony and what these ceremonies mean and who they’re really for, other than the Graduates of course. 2. OCG’s 10th anniversary and independence from DAYTOP.  3. Comments about the opioid crisis  SHOW SEGMENTS: Recap, News/Sports, Show Topics, Recovery Support 

Show Topic:  Over the last few years we have spent many shows discussing many concepts and theories regarding substance abuse, addiction, substance abuse treatment, and recovery. With the help of the National Institute of Health (NIH) we'll review what the prevailing science is on Drug Use and Addiction. We will offer our commentary on where we agree and disagree (respectfully of course) with what the "science" says. Show Segments: Recap/News/Sports, Show Topic, Recovery Support Time  

Show Topic:  Early recovery (1st Trimester) is a time for adapting to life without drugs and or alcohol. Maintaining recovery requires both small, medium and large changes in all areas of ones life. These changes can seem and sometimes are in fact, overwhelming. This leads the early recovering addict to be in a state of vulnerability. We'll discuss the top ten struggles (or issues) that a recovering addict may face in that early period. Show Segments:  News/Recap/Sports, Show Topic, Recovery Support Time

WELCOME BACK MR. PRODUCER!! SHOW TOPIC:  In the immortal words of Vince Lombardi, we ask the eternal question of " What the heck is going on here?' Recent events indicate a troubling trend of what we used to call "stinkin thinkin", bad decisions, and out an out intentional subversion of the theraputic recovery enviornment by those who have not yet decided if this recovery thing is for them. We gotta call it out ........ SHOW SEGMENTS: RECAP/NEWS/SPORTS, SHOW TOPIC, RECOVERY SUPPORT TIME

Show Topic: Two Dreams, an Illinois based substance abuse program came up with an extensive list of emotional, mental, and physical exercises for addictics to engage in during the recovery process. We will go over a number of those items on their list that we believe are essential exercises or tools for a successful recovery process.  We thank Two Dreams for coming up with the list Show Segments: Recap/News/Sports, Show Topic, Recovery Support Time

Show Topic:  The concepts of the Therapeutic Community model of treatment, when broken down to itheir core, have a commonality. Practice. The methods or actions of the concept must be practiced daily by the recovering addict in order that those philosophies take hold. We'll discuss why Practice is essential to the method of what sometimes look likes madness.  Show Segments: Recap/News/Sports, Show Topic, Recovery Support Time

Show Topic: Relationships. The number one cause of relapse for those in Recovery (NSE). Why is that? We'll discuss. There is old school industry dogma on when those in Recovery should pursue romantic relationships. We'll discuss that. Why do romantic relationships birthed within the recovery environment fail? We'll discuss that. Show Segments: Recap/Sports/News, Show Topic, Recovery Support Time

Show Topic:  The experience of recovery at its various stages, for many, can be one of fear, and anxiety. This often leads to the recovering addict to concsiously and subconsiously sabotage their recovery process leading to pre-relapse behavior and eventually a full blown relapse. We'll discuss what (and sometimes who) leads to the sabotage of the recovery process and how it can be avoided or faced if the addict is in the midst of the sabotaging experience.   Show Segments:  Recap/News, Show Topic, Recovery Support Time

Topic:  We are officially two months into the new world of substance abuse treatment in California. How's it going? What's new? What's working? What isn't? Is the vision as articulated being realized and actualized or is the vision and the reality worlds apart? How are staff adapting? Lots of questions, hopefully some answers Show Segments: Recap, Show Topic, Recovery Support Time  

Show Topic: In Celebration of Womens's History Month we present: Women in Treatment. We'll interview three women who volunteered to teach, talk, and reminisce about their treatment experiences many moons ago. We'll touch on their experiences prior to, during, and post treatment, and where they are at today with life in a recovery context. Show Segments: Recap, News/Sports, Show Topic, Recovery Support Time

Show Topic:  Emotional health is one of the most important tenets of a successful recovery. We spend 90% of our treatment experience focusing on identifying, exploring, analyzing, examining, issues that we then need to learn to emotionally cope with, live with, accept, and if possible resolve in a manner where moving forward, the issues no longer impact our daily lives, decision making, or behavior. Let's go over ten steps to emotional fitness. Show Segments:  Recap / News / Sports,  Show Topic, Recovery Support Tim