I’m Robert the recovery guy
Personal Life & Career Coach
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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.
Episode #68 – Thursday The Checkup: Forgiveness and Freedom Go Hand in Hand
Today’s podcast is a journey and an introduction into 2020. I am looking forward to this next decade and I hope you are as well. Forgiveness and freedom are so reliant upon each other. So often people are wondering why they are in bondage and why they aren’t seeing freedom in areas of their life that are important to them. My initial response is to ask where is the block? Is there an area of your life where you have not allowed forgiveness to be expressed that you can overcome the bondage that exists went forgiveness is not extended period. Please explore areas in your life where maybe you’re holding on to something that you thought was insignificant and yet forgiveness needs to be extended for you to feel the freedom that you hope to feel in your recovery.
Episode #67 – Tuesday The Fix: Do you still hear the Bell
This podcast is designed to encourage and challenge those who listen. So often people of recovery lose their way. Many of those people go back to the destructive behavior that caused their life to be the Trainwreck that it became. I believe they do this because they lose the magic and as it says in polar express “though I’ve grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe”. Where is your magic? Does the bill still ring for you? Have you lost your belief? If this is true of you I invite you to go back and remember what it was like when you first were introduced to the miracle of recovery. I hope you once again hear the bell and re-join with the excitement in the energy that you were first introduced to as you pursued Recovery.
Episode #66 – Tuesday The Fix: 2020 Vision
2020 Vision for 2020 is designed to elevate and encourage you as we approach to the New Year. Looking inside and understanding who we are helps us makes sense of what we see. Once I have clarity it is easier to manage my life and live according to what I think.
Episode #65 – Friday The Checkup: Are We Responsible
Today’s podcast helps us understand our responsibility when it comes to others. Being responsible is not anymore than making sure that we are living the type of life that we need to live that would elevate our life that we would become an attractive resource for other people. We are our brothers keeper. We have a moral obligation to do the best we possibly can for our self so that when someone else needs our assistance especially in the area of recovery we are there to meet them. Are you responsible in your recovery? Are we preparing ourselves daily that when that person who needs us comes along we will be more than happy and able to assist them. Please listen to this podcast enjoying the recovery movement. Let’s make a difference in the lives of as many people as possible
Episode #64 – Tuesday The Fix: Are We Attractive
Are we attractive is a challenge for each and everyone of us. This podcast helps explore and examine the areas in which our life as people of recovery is not only attractive to others, but also charismatic to the people we would come across. Our recovery has to be so compelling and so magnetic and so fascinating to others that they will stick around long enough to hear our message we want them to see us as people who are so excited about our personal recovery that they Are we attractive is a challenge for each and everyone of us. This podcast helps explore and examine the areas in which our life as people of recovery is not only attractive to others, but also charismatic to the people we would come across. Our recovery has to be so compelling and so magnetic and so fascinating to others that they will stick around long enough to hear our message. We want them to see us as people who are so excited about our personal recovery that they want that same feeling and life as well. Is your recovery attractive? I hope that it is. I also hope that you are looking to grow in that degree of attractiveness. How we portray our own recovery will help determine if they want what we have.
Episode #63 – Thursday The Checkup: Words To Live By
As I have previously stated “So as man thinks in his heart so is he”. I believe this to be so powerful that words can shape us either way. As Tuesdays podcast indicated “the power of thinking“ guides us in so many different directions we don’t even understand. Personal confirmation will help reinforce a negative view or it will help solidify a positive view. If we are to live a healthy life it will be by our word choice in how we describe ourselves, our surroundings, our relationships and our life overall. Words to live by is an approach to permanent wellness.
Episode #62 – Tuesday The Fix: The power of Thinking
This podcast is designed to help shift our negative thinking and understand the power that thinking has over us. I will be sharing two sources that I think will help assist you with a meeting support information. The first link is where I originally heard of this talk by Dr. Joe Dispenza and the 2nd is the link to the talk it came from. I sincerely hope you use these links and my podcast to further develop your thinking that will help guide you into a more healthy way of living.
Sean Croxton, Quote of the Day
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-quote-of-the-day-show-daily-motivational-talks/id1163094296?i=1000458091590
Dr. Joe Dispenza’s full talk
https://youtu.be/eT7OXkR6rUI
Episode #61 – Thursday The Checkup: Finding our way
Finding our way is an instruction designed to guide us through the journey of recovery. Somewhere along the line we lost our way in now finding our way back is a challenge for everyone of us. We can’t find her way and we can be successful along the journey. Not every path is going to work, but we need to find a path that will work for us. This podcast helps break down Finding Our Way is instruction designed to guide us through the journey of recovery. Somewhere along the line we lost our way and now finding our way back is a challenge for everyone of us. We can find our way and we can be successful along the journey. Not every path is going to work, but we need to find a path that will work for us. This podcast helps break down some the challenges while giving guidelines as how to succeed.
Episode #60 – Tuesday The Fix: Hope for the Holidays
Hope for the holidays is designed to help reshape the thinking of those who feel the holidays are difficult to get through. The holidays are only difficult to get through because we decided to hold on to something we don’t have then be grateful for what we do have. There are so many wonderful things that the holidays bring even though there are many things we are waiting for. Let us not focus on the things that we are waiting for, Hope for the holidays is designed to help her reach shape the thinking of those who feel the holidays are difficult to get through. The holidays are only difficult to get through because we decided to hold on to something we don’t have then be grateful for what we do have. There are so many wonderful things that the holidays bring even though there are many things we are waiting for. Let’s not focus on the things that we are waiting for, but rather appreciate the things we do have. I hope this podcast encourages you to let go of the things that diminish what you have and gravitate toward the things that you do have. As Shakespeare said “nothing is either good or bad. It is our thinking that makes it good or badI hope this podcast encourages you to let go of the things that diminish what you have in gravitate toward the things that you do have. As Shakespeare said “nothing is either good or bad. It is our thinking that makes it good or bad”. I hope you were just your thinking that what you do have is good.
Episode #59 – Thursday The Checkup: Keeping Family
Keeping family is something we need to do early on in recovery. In my journey of recovery I have found that keeping family helps sustain me as I have continued to grow. And I gain more insight into my recovery the more capable I feel as a member of the my family. The more capable I feel within the more capable I will feel. Family provides a core strength that helps me understand how valuable I am. It is not enough to find family it is in keeping family that sustains me for years to come.
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.