Episode 1134: Has Your Recovery Become Boring?

Episode 1134: Has Your Recovery Become Boring?

How do people cope with the challenges of staying sober? This conversation on Take 12 Recovery Radio’s *Came to Believe Recovery Podcast* zeroes in on a very real question: what happens when recovery starts to feel… boring?

Host Monty Dale Meyer (the Monty’man), a recovered alcoholic, sits down with East Coast programme director for Came to Believe Recovery, Mary De Poortere, to talk honestly about that strange moment when the chaos is gone, the drama has faded, and life suddenly feels a bit flat. Is that peace, or is it complacency? Monty and Mary chat about the difference between healthy stability and spiritual stagnation, asking whether people have simply “stopped” rather than become “stuck”.

They look at how routines like meetings, readings and prayer can quietly turn into box-ticking if you’re no longer growing, and why relying on methods instead of the One who gave them can leave you spiritually dry. You’ll hear them tackle the “recovery bubble” too – that phase where everything in life revolves around recovery talk, but real life outside the rooms is getting smaller.

Monty shares how a sponsor once told him he might be going to *too many* meetings, and how service, real accountability, and life beyond the meeting hall brought fresh purpose. Mary reflects on being “stripped down” in early sobriety, learning to rely on God, and later finding new direction through Came to Believe Recovery retreats.

The episode rounds things off with the Clancy Recovery Blues Band’s tongue-in-cheek track “The Boring Blues”, hammering home the message: “If recovery’s feeling boring, here’s what you ought to do: get up, get out, get busy, and let God work through you.” If your recovery feels flat, could it be time to prune those laurels, shake up your routine, and ask who you might be called to help next?