Welcome back to this week's episode of Trudge Report. Thank you for supporting the show. We kick things off going around the horn. We discuss the art of grocery shopping, expensive dental work, fixing cars, and family dinners. In the back half of the show we have some football and baseball talk.

In the recovery segment, we talk about what happens when sobriety takes you somewhere new. Dan and Greg share their experiences relocating after building strong recovery foundations in Florida, including the fear of leaving familiar people and meetings behind, walking into completely new recovery communities, and resisting the urge to compare everything to what they had before. We also discuss why establishing a solid foundation before making a major move matters, how helping others can create connections in a new place, and why a few bad meetings shouldn't convince us that recovery isn't available wherever we land.

Sometimes staying connected means changing things up. Recovery continues to ask us to grow. The goal isn't to rebuild exactly what we had. It's to stay open enough to create something new.

Shamata - Sanskrit word meaning; to stay peaceful and calm.

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Welcome back to this week's episode of Trudge Report. Thank you for supporting the show. After we go around the horn we honor and remember September 11th, 2001. Each of us recap where we were on that fateful day and how it impacted each of us back then and now. What we teach our kids about it and how different it is now that we are the parents trying to explain the world to the next generation. We will never forget the lives lost but we will always remember those who sacrificed and the unity it brought to our country. On the back half of the show we have more NFL discussion about week one.

In the recovery segment, we tackle complacency and what can happen when a good life slowly becomes an excuse to stop doing the things that helped us build it. We talk about the stream of life; busy schedules, work, family, and travel. How easy it is to rest on years of sobriety and convince ourselves we're doing just fine. We also discuss recognizing the warning signs in how we treat other people, the importance of staying connected, working with others as our primary purpose, and why returning to the basics can matter even more as the years in recovery add up. Dan and Greg share a unique perspective on having to move to different states after multiple years of sobriety and how challenging but also exciting it can be to make a new foundation and build a new support network.

“Can we get to the place where there is no place to get to." -Michel Stone

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Welcome back to Trudge Report Podcast. Thank you for your support of the show.

This week we go around the horn. Dan is in Connecticut where some somber family news gives way to some cherished moments and teaching opportunities. Greg gets VIP treatment at the Cleveland Guardians (don't call them Indians) game. Corey gets down and dirty in the yard and discovers a Florida cheese steak that rivals Philly.

The recovery segment surrounds memorable experiences and events that each of us encountered in our early sobriety or first few years. We look back and recap those time situations and remember how vital to our early sobriety and long-term recovery they were. We go down memory lane. Not all of these occurrences were good or positive at first sight but we learned and conquered fears going through them. Looking back we realize they were just what we needed.

On the back half of the show we have NFL season preview. We are all passionate about the sport and our teams. We go around and each of us give our take on a big storyline for the upcoming season and then we each have a turn talking about why our respective favorite teams are going to be awesome or are going to stink.

“Letting go isn't about having the courage to release the past, it's about having the wisdom to embrace the present.” -Steve Maraboli

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Hello sports fans and welcome back to another week and episode of Trudge Report. Thank you for being with us and thank you for your support. This week the dynamic duo of Greg and Shawn have the run of the place. Corey is cow tipping somewhere and Dan is dealing with some family stuff so special shout out and prayers to him and his family. The two of us go around the horn, giving some quick life updates, and Labor Day plans. Greg keeps us apprised of his still far away but coming up fast wedding next summer. We have a little MLB discussion as we approach the last month of the regular season before the playoffs.

In the recovery segment we bring back the mini deep dive into different recovery programs. This week we delve into Refuge Recovery. This was the first and main offshoot of the Buddhist style recovery that we covered a few weeks ago. Refuge Recovery is a mindfulness-based addiction recovery program founded by Buddhist teacher and author Noah Levine. It serves as a non-theistic alternative to traditional 12-step programs. The history of it is packed with success, controversy, legal implications, and more. Enjoy.

"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace." — Dhammapada

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Welcome back to Trudge Report Podcast. Thank you for supporting the show. This week we go quickly around the horn before welcoming back a founder and former cohost of TRP, Mr. Bill DeLuca. Bill comes on the show in response to Greg calling him out on some Fantasy Football shenanigans. There are some shots fired across the bow but there are plenty of laughs and it is good catching up with Bill.

The recovery segment surrounds the topic of routine in recovery. How important it is, especially early on, to get into good habits in our programs. Certain aspects of recovery that we maybe were not too keen on in the early days but as time went on we realized how integral they were. The difference between boredom and actual peace when we got sober and how we kept appropriately active early on as opposed to when life gets truly busy. We finish the show with the evolution of our lives in sobriety, with family, and in our professions.

Sobriety is God given. Recovery is a choice.
-Anonymous-

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Hello and welcome back to the show. Thank you for your listenership and support. This week Greg and Corey are just coming back from a pretty epic trip to Philly where they were accused as cops, offered illicit drugs, berated by the locals, and attended an epic Foo Fighters concert. They make it out sober but barely. Shawn arrives late to the show from an undisclosed location and Danny gives some real life updates with a couple of close encounters with tornadoes.

The recovery segment is a mix of being able to go places and do fun things in early sobriety juxtaposing that with longer term sobriety. We talk about what situations it might be smart to stay away from in early sobriety as opposed to the freedom of being able to do these things once we have a solid spiritual foundation under our feet. The importance of going to events and outings with other sober people, especially early on. Then we pivot a bit into the plight of homelessness spawned from what the boys saw in Philly and more specifically, Kensington, on the trip. We talked briefly about some of our own experience with homelessness and just how bad of a scene it is in certain American cities. How it might seem far-fetched to some of us, to others, the jump from solid sobriety and good living to homelessness and devastation isn't that far.

“No one can carry tomorrow before it arrives.”

-John Collinge

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Welcome back to this week's episode of Trudge Report. Thank you for supporting the show. We kick things off with the Great Florida versus Northeast chicken wing debate. The kids go back to school in Florida and just how much the world has changed since we were in school. Corey and Greg prepare for a trip to Philly to go see Foo Fighters with some other friends.

This week we bring a little mini series of episodes where we take a deep dive into other brands and forms of recovery. There are different paths up to the same mountain top and this week we talk about the Buddhist style recovery and what it looks like compared to the path we know. We explore the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, mindfulness, craving, attachment, suffering, personal accountability, and the idea of changing our relationship with discomfort instead of escaping it. We talk honestly about where Buddhist recovery overlaps with our own experiences, where we have questions. We give a quick historical timeline and each of us discuss tenants of that style of recovery that we like and dislike and others that we are intrigued and fascinated by and would like to know more about.

We will be doing other deep dives on different recovery organizations sporadically so stay tuned.

"The true refuge is not a place outside of us, nor is it a substance. The true refuge is the quiet space within your own awareness.". — Tara Brach

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Welcome back to this week's episode of Trudge Report. Thank you for supporting the show.

We kick things off with some fantasy football drama that somehow becomes more competitive every year, baseball trade deadline reactions, and an upcoming Foo Fighters concert.

In the recovery segment we delve into financial sobriety, financial responsibility, and how we are fully self-supporting. Each of us talk about how poor we were making financial decisions prior to sobriety, in early sobriety, and even at multiple years sober. We had to learn what it meant to be responsible stewards of our money just as much as we had to learn the spiritual, physical, and emotional recovery process from drugs and alcohol.

The sea never turns around to collect the waves it has already released. -Anonymous

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