Episode 50 | The #RecoveryFirst Podcast with Mike Todd | "A Journey Of Humility"Episode 50 | The #RecoveryFirst Podcast with Mike Todd | "A Journey Of Humility"
The Recovery First Addiction Recovery Podcast by Freedom Recovery Services of Greenville
Mike Todd reflects on recovery as “a journey in humility,” connecting 12-step principles with daily practice and service to others. The episode also highlights efforts in South Carolina to support ethical recovery housing and expand naloxone access and training.
10:04•6 Nov 2021
A Journey of Humility: Mike Todd on Recovery, Service, and Safe Housing
Episode Overview
- Recovery is described as a “journey in humility,” involving surrender, asking for help, and relying on something greater.
- Key steps include taking a fearless personal inventory, admitting wrongs to another person, and shifting from saying “I’m sorry” to “I was wrong.”
- Humility continues through ongoing daily practice: promptly admitting when wrong and making things right where possible.
- Step twelve is presented as the ultimate act of humility, carrying the message and serving others with what has been freely given.
- The South Carolina Recovery Housing Association focuses on supporting operators, advocating for ethical practice, and ensuring naloxone and overdose training in recovery houses.
“Recovery is a journey in humility.”
How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety? This episode of The Recovery First Addiction Recovery Podcast leans hard into that question by framing recovery as, in Mike Todd’s words, “a journey in humility.” Recorded from a convention in Myrtle Beach, Mike shares fresh reflections from another person in recovery who described recovery in that way, and he runs through what that actually looks like in daily life.
You’ll hear him walk through classic 12-step themes with a very down-to-earth tone: surrendering and asking for help after years of stubborn self-reliance, coming to believe in something greater, and taking a “searching and fearless” look at one’s past.
Mike highlights just how humbling it is to “admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs,” and to move from saying “I’m sorry” to saying “I was wrong.” The episode also speaks to people who like practical service work in recovery. Mike talks about step twelve as “the ultimate humility” because it means serving others and sharing what’s been freely given.
For anyone in early sobriety, or those who’ve been around a while and need a reminder, this will feel like a back-to-basics check-in on what recovery is supposed to be about. Towards the end, the focus widens to recovery housing in South Carolina and why it matters.
Another segment explains how, 30 years ago, people in recovery simply lived together to stay accountable, and how that grassroots effort has grown into an industry with its own challenges, including exploitation of vulnerable people. You’ll hear about the South Carolina Recovery Housing Association’s push to get naloxone into all recovery houses and to train residents to use it, along with mentoring and advocating for operators.
If you’re curious about humility, service, and the nuts-and-bolts work that keeps people alive and housed, this one might give you something to think about in your own journey. How might a bit more humility reshape your next step in recovery?
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