In January 2015 Liv started what is now Liv’s Recovery Kitchen to explore the next chapter in her continuing journey of recovery from addiction: towards a destination of health, fitness, and well-being.
“One of the biggest things I've learned over these past 17 months is that if I'm not rigorously honest in my life, I will slowly chip away at my own self-worth and I just can't do that anymore. It's too costly.”
As a recovery champion, Kelly is a combination of unflagging positivity, unflinching courage and unqualified candor. She is the embodiment of whatever the Spanish equivalent of joie de vivre is crossed with a certain je ne sais quoi.
*WITH NONE OF THE JUNKIE BIT. AND, FOR THAT MATTER, MUCH LESS OF THE ACID-TECHNO AND MAD BITS AS WELL.
Andrew has spent most of his life as a musician and composer. Consequently he has also had many different occupations from laundry worker and record shop manager to music and spoken word producer to founder of a record label to founder of a school for troubled teenagers to…well, you get the idea. Here he shares shares some insight into the man in recovery he is today.
Megan is no stranger to recovery out loud. Over the past 12 years, she has maintained a blog (now also home for her creative business), Crazy Bananas, that has mixed life, work, parenting, and being a small business owner along side candid posts about her personal battles and achievements as a person—a creative person—in long-term recovery.
Natasha is currently promoting a new initiative by the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids. The center piece is the short documentary, Breaking Points. A film that addresses prescription pill abuse among teens.
Stephen, a dog-lover in recovery, was struck by a very basic need of people entering rehab: Care for their pets while they were away. With that in mind, he founded Dogs Matter.
Sean says he’s been a writer, humorist and storyteller since he learned how to speak. But that it wasn't until he got sober in 2009 that Sean found out he could get paid for these things.
For one hour each week Jeff dons his virtual cape and mask as one of the three cohosts of the Since Right Now Addiction Recovery Podcast. For the other 167 hours in the week he’s a super husband, a heroic father and a mild-mannered creative culture warrior.
“Hi. I’m Tawny and I have a drinking problem.” Almost two months ago on her blog, SobrieTea, the one-time bartender made a one year commitment to sobriety by “swapping booze for tea.” And after “15 years of self-destructive behavior” she’s also committed to recovery.
Charlotte is a professional makeup artist and beauty writer in Derry, Ireland whose experience as a plus-size Wilhelmina Model in NYC led her to question, “What is beauty?” The self-acceptance and self-love that she’s found in the answer has inspired her to work to inspire other women to feel beautiful and confident as a whole person not only for what‘s on the outside.
In an excerpt from her recovery memoir, Last Call, Nancy reminisces, somewhat dreamily, “I don’t remember the first time I noticed alcohol, I just knew it was there on the beach at the shore…”
Nancy's still there at the shore—living her dream—but the alcohol is long gone.
Shane's is the Most Read Recovery Story on the site. I believe it's a testament to the many people who love and respect him that flocked here to show their support for all he's done and continues to do to champion the messages of prevention and recovery.
This dynamic duo was recovering out loud before it was a hashtag. Books, television, comedy, live performance, video…podcasting—These two have been blazing the trail for modern recovery media.
These two (plus one!), the force behind Rocket Designs, are a remarkable example of a family in recovery and all the wonders, trials and complexities that entails. I hope you find their intertwined revelations as fascinating as I do. And be sure to listen to the couple guest on Since Right Now on February 18.
Jo's brave and candid retelling of her recovery story was the centerpiece of one of 2015's most listened to episodes of Since Right Now. In Recovery Revelations Jo continues in that forthright manner; laying plans to help the two causes she cares most about—addicts and animals—in a a wonderfully symbiotic way yet still diagnosing herself with "You Suck Syndrome."
He's the#recoveryposse OG (at least as far as I'm concerned), not only was he an early guest on the Since Right Now Podcast, he graciously contributed two compositions (from his album Last Man Standing) to serve as the indispensable intro and outro for the show, he worked tirelessly to produce substance-free raves under the Raveclean banner—Jon/DJFM is a legit recovery warrior.