175 Topics About Recovery with Touched By Addiction175 Topics About Recovery with Touched By Addiction
You're Sober! Now What?
A group conversation between Tamar Medford and the Touched By Addiction team focuses on the risks and temptations that can derail early recovery. They share personal stories, practical habits and their efforts to help others into long-term treatment.
49:37•27 Jan 2022
Staying On Track in Early Recovery with Touched By Addiction
Episode Overview
- Seemingly small choices, like going to a bar or having ‘just one beer’, can rapidly snowball towards relapse.
- Dating and romantic relationships in early recovery often create emotional upheaval that can threaten sobriety.
- Building a daily routine of simple, positive habits helps create a stronger foundation for long-term recovery.
- Being honest about struggles and asking for help reduces isolation and reinforces connection to a recovery community.
- Sharing experiences and supporting others in addiction can strengthen one’s own recovery and sense of purpose.
“"Relapse is not a part of my story because I have continued to build that solid foundation and created a life beyond recovery that I'm so happy with."”
What are the common struggles and victories in addiction recovery? This group chat brings together Tamar Medford and the Touched By Addiction team for a lively, honest conversation about what can knock you off course in those fragile early months. You’ll hear Tamar reflect on gratitude, faith, and the comfort of knowing "we're never really alone" in recovery, even when emotions feel overwhelming.
She talks openly about food becoming a new coping mechanism, and how emotional intelligence and being "okay with not being okay" helps her keep moving forward.
The Touched By Addiction crew – Adam, Bowdoin, Ryan and Carmine – share raw stories of near-relapses triggered by dating, old friends, bars, and that dangerous belief of "I can handle just one." Adam describes how "one beer" led to six and a flood of old behaviours, while Bowdoin admits that early on he was "like a wild animal" chasing attention, nearly sacrificing a new career for a drunken night out.
Ryan challenges the familiar phrase "relapse is a part of recovery," saying he sees recovery as the core of recovery, not relapse. Carmine talks about learning from each slip and recognising how small choices, like candy binges and unstructured time, can quietly push someone back towards using. Together they highlight practical ways to stay on track: choosing your circle carefully, dominating the small daily habits (like making your bed and eating well), and giving back through service and sharing stories.
The episode also shines a light on Touched By Addiction’s mission to raise funds to get people into year-long treatment programmes. If you’re in early recovery or supporting someone who is, this mix of humour, honesty and hard-earned experience might give you a few new tools – and maybe a nudge to ask yourself which “little decisions” you’re making today.
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