I’m Robert the recovery guy
Personal Life & Career Coach
Recovery one day at a time with Robert
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Recovery Guy Podcast
As a seasoned and energetic motivational speaker Robert’s uplifting view of the recovered life will encourage you. His topics cover a wide variety of perspectives and resources to help build a better you.
Understanding, Identifying and Avoiding Triggers
Quite simply, a trigger is a person, place, thought or event that can set into motion a response. You have heard the tried and true phrase “if it were easy everyone would be doing it.” The same thing is true when applied to today’s blog.
Finding What Works
There are so many factors… Not only are the variables different with an addiction or negative behavior, but is also associated with what triggers it. We must learn a positive response that we would want to apply that recovery solution to need to recover.
Episode #103 – Tuesday The Fix: Healing While Hurting
If there is anything I have learned about life is that it occurs with or without my permission. Obviously, if it only occurred with my permission only what I wanted when I wanted would it worked for me. Since that is not the case, I learned early on in recovery that I...
Episode #102 – Friday The Checkup: Getting Out of Our Way
The original quote was “We have met the enemy and he is ours” was from Admiral Perry after his defeat of the British Royal Navy in 1813. The organizers of a 1970 Earth Day Celebration hijacked the quote to meet their purpose as “We have met the enemy and it is us”....
Sharing the message of hope
How do we find hope in what might appear to be hopeless? As with every coin there is another side. It is my obligation to others and myself to always flip the coin to the other side and extract every bit of hope from something that appears hopeless.
Building A Positive Self-Image
As I often say, “we didn’t get broken overnight and we don’t get fixed overnight” Becoming well is a process and building a positive self-image is a necessary component. Life’s journey has many moving parts as various times throughout.
Episode #101 – Tuesday The Fix: Removing Boundaries/Barriers That Hold Us Back
Barrier something material that blocks or is intended to block passagebarricade, fence, hedge, wall Barriers are good except when they allow the rise of boundaries that keep positive people, events or concepts to help us. Boundary something that indicates or fixes a...
Episode #100 – Friday The Checkup: Recovery comes in many ways
The word recovery has different meanings to different people. In the clinical sense recovery refers to a condition that a person experiences when they have overcome a particular mental, emotional or physical diagnosis. When it comes to addiction and other behavioral...
Daily Deposits
When I look at my life of recovery I need to look at it in a similar fashion that I would look at my bank account. I want to make sure that I’m checking my balance because I know that there are going to be withdrawn roles which are necessary to make. So, I open my...
Giant quotes from a Giant of a Man
Early on in my recovery I began reading motivational books. I was introduced to several speakers and authors that had great insight into taking charge of the day. They also deepened my understanding of seeing through the emotion of events. I began looking for the...
What Is Life Coaching?
Who is Coaching For?
It is my opinion that the one looking to be coached must be so convinced that their current situation is so injurious that if they don’t change their life would be irreparably harmed or they will die. Now that might seem drastic to some, but is it really? If you’re in a position where you would consider a coach, you would likely conclude that doing it by yourself with the methods that you’ve been trying are not effective and would be counterproductive to continue in that direction.
Life is meant to be enjoyed and cherished
There is nothing more discouraging than waking up each day dreading what the day holds. If that is you, when will you stop allowing the day to dictate that to you. Own the day from the outset and be the master of your own outcome.
We have been created to be a light to others
Stop allowing the external pressures to hold back your internal desire to grow and develop.
Create a legacy of happiness by living that legacy now.
Increase your value to others as you increase your value to you.
About Me
Recovery Guy was born out my own personal recovery. I had become a chronic alcoholic. I began choosing alcohol and drugs on a daily basis when I turned 18. I was so deeply trapped I also became a compulsive gambler, overeater, bulimic, and I was also addicted to pornography. I entered treatment in February 1986. After one brief relapse, I have been clean and sober since April 25, 1986. Along the way the overeating, bulimia, gambling and pornography have left my life. I have learned so much over the years. I went back to college at 39 years old to get my degree in Alcohol/Drugs Studies. I have worked in various treatment models. Along the way I became well. I went “From Broken To Whole.” It is my belief that everyone has this potential. I went from a feeling that if something didn’t change I was going to die to a person of accomplishment. I would love the opportunity to guide you as I was guided. I took advantage of the help offered to me. I have combined that information in proven ways to assist you. Thank you for your time.
Testimonials
“Robert’s content is outstanding. It’s not merely about addiction, but life in general. His recent podcast gave me food for thought. I will be thinking about the “inside-out” scenario for a long time” Jan T.
“Recovery Guy has been part of my recovery for almost 3 years now. I appreciate Robert’s perspective on recovery and how to extract the most out of every day. He has encouraged me to take on daily challenges aggressively and have more major victories”. Angie
“I got to know Robert when we were looking for a speaker for an AA meeting. Since then I have relied on his elevated approach to seeing life, I have decided that I want to pursue and grow the way he has. I want to have his degree of recovery in my life. Robert has been a wonderful influence in my life”. Chaz M
Find Your Balance. Set Your Goals. Take A Challenge. Reward Yourself.
Understand that a life coach teaches you how to live productively one day at a time. We learn to overcome obstacles and other challenges that would have previously taken you off course and caused to slip back into previous behavior. A coach helps a person of addiction understand that true sobriety is more than the absence of the substance. Being sober is the beginning of sobriety, not sobriety itself. Whether it is overcoming a behavior that is not addiction related or behavior that is associated with alcohol or drugs the goal is the same. One must learn how to live a different way and because of enjoying that lifestyle the person would no longer want to engage in that negative behavior. It really is as simple as that. A coach is nothing more and nothing less than a conduit/guide for new way of living.