Hello everyone and welcome back to a very special Thanksgiving episode of Trudge Report. This week we take a break from the normal routine and welcome Rebecca Morgan to the show. Rebecca was a former foster care youth, current and long time child welfare professional, and someone who has addiction that runs rampant in her family. We first dive into her role as a child welfare professional and how she came to this line of work. Rebecca then shares her personal stories about entering the foster care system and being separated from her three brothers at age 15. She gives some background on the lead up to those events. Rebecca also shares about the addiction that was littered all through her family; from her father dying of a drug overdose, her mother's struggle with mental health and substance abuse, to her living brother who is homeless and on the streets. Rebecca gets raw and emotional in this episode. We thank her and praise her for the courage and commitment she has shown not only for her family but specially for herself.

We want to wish all of our listeners and supporters a happy and healthy Thanksgiving, wherever you may be.

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." — William Shakespeare

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Welcome back to this week's episode of Trudge Report. This week we tackle the important stuff right out of the gate; Corey turning 30 and Dan and Shawn's skating rink days.

The recovery topic this week continues to surround the idea of being powerless over drugs and alcohol, stopping on our own power, and what the needed Power really is that gets us sober. Am I an alcoholic or an addict because I drink or use too much? Or, is it what happens to me when I drink or use? We have discussions surrounding the mental obsession of the disease of alcoholism and addiction, as well as the phenomenon of craving and the physical allergy. We talk about what happens in our minds and in our physical bodies when we ingest drugs and alcohol. And naturally, Corey has a gripe.

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

-JK Rowlings-

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Hello good people and welcome back to another week's episode of Trudge Report. At the top of the show we discuss everything from snow in the midwest, fantasy football heartbreak, weird allergies, and viral plane crashes.

We then dive into the recovery topic, surrounding complete powerlessness over our addictions, and how none of us could stop on our own power or by the numerous methods we have employed. We discuss barriers to recovery that each of us faced, mostly those within ourselves. We talk about preconceived notions, both positive and negative, that we all had about getting sober. We mix in a few entertaining stories and then end with what kept each of us in Florida to get and stay sober.

Big shout out to all of the men and women that have served in our armed forces in honor of Veterans Day on November 11th. We thank each of you for your service and sacrifice.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape 100 days of sorrow.”

-Chinese Proverb

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Welcome back to another episode of Trudge Report. We kick off the show with a Halloween recap and a big shout out to game 7 of the world series. Then we bring you a harrowing, but hilarious, recap of some of the wild, grimy, and dishonest ways we were living in the months and years leading up to us getting sober. From embezzlement to homelessness to botched kidnapping schemes, we share our experiences in the throes of the disease and the wild ride the lifestyle can take a person on. Each of us delve back into our past and even though we make light of some of these events now, at the time they were tremendously sad and wretched. We lay the framework for a recovery program and the physical, mental, and spiritual bottoms that each of us have to hit in order to make the admission that we have a problem and we need help.

“Get down off the cross. Somebody needs the wood.”

-Dolly Parton: Straight Talk, the movie-

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Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Trudge Report. We welcome our good friend and long time listener officially and indefinitely to the podcast, Danny P. We are pumped to have him as part of the Trudge Crew. We go around the horn with a few quick takes on a variety of things before heading into an Emmet Fox reading, titled “Stake Your Claim." This is easily one of his more famous and well known readings and philosophies.

After that we transition into our last and final spooky topic for the Halloween season. Corey brings a brilliant idea of the origins of the slasher film and horror movies in general. We all get a quick history lesson on how the slasher film came to be and early pioneers in terms of creators and characters. Corey goes through the different styles of the horror movie throughout the decades up to what we have in the present day. We conclude this topic and spooky season with each of our top five power rankings on best horror villains. We hope you enjoy and happy Halloween to everyone. Be safe.

Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.

-Stephen Graham Jones-

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Join the show this week as we have a very special guest joining us as part of the TRP lineup. Long time friend and supporter of the Pod, Danny P, is in town and we are so happy he is here to join us. We start off by saying hi to Dan and welcoming him to the show. We go around the horn and recap our weekends. Dan is in town for a friend's wedding that most of us attended. We then go into a breakdown of the Lord's Prayer, The Our Father. We look at it from the Emmet Fox point of view and breakdown and we each discuss our past and present relationships with the prayer. Then in honor of spooky season Greg brings us a classic historical account of another serial killer, Anthony Sowell, AKA “The Cleveland Strangler.” We hope you enjoy it.

“They will be done means, your will and God's will may not be the same "

-Wendell Berry-

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Join the Trudge Trio this week as we have a jam-packed episode. We begin in our usual fashion with our quick hitter around the horn segment. Next we move on to the societal norm of pumpkin patches and each of our families annual tradition. After that we have a very fun segment where each of us brought some kind of interesting topic or humorous but useful invention. From gingers to codpieces, to strange births, this one is good for a few laughs. Then we move onto a special reading from Matthew McConaughey’s book, Greenlights. This one is very thought-provoking and a good conversation starter. Finally, we bring you a much anticipated spooky season topic. The quick biography of Carl Eugene Watts, aka the “Sunday Morning Slasher.” We hope you enjoy listening this week.

“An honest man's pillow is his peace of mind, and when we lie down on ours at night, no matter who's in our bed, we sleep alone.”

-Matthew McConaughey-

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Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode of Trudge Report. After we go around the horn we dive right into another prayer. This week it is the Prayer of St Francis, also referred to as “A Prayer for Peace.” Like last week's dive into the Serenity Prayer, this prayer has been a major part of all of our lives since our early recovery. It is a prayer that has layers and deeper meaning depending on where we are at in our spiritual journeys.

The second half of the show is all about how deep each of our belief systems go when it comes to the paranormal and the supernatural. We each share a few experiences and certain things we may or may not fully believe in and buy into when it comes to some of the spooky stuff. Gregory lives some very real childhood experiences that are perfect for this time of year. We recap some of the Chris McKinnell episodes and how some of what he shared and his experiences have helped shape our own.

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest of intentions.

-John Burroughs-

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