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The Recovery Guide is hosted by Michael Herbert, a person in long-term recovery with over 35 years clean and nearly four decades of experience in addiction and mental health.
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"It's Not 30 Days—It's the Rest of Your Life" (opens the original)
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Michelle DeMicco was in and out of rehab six times before she turned 21. Nearly 19 years sober now, she'll tell you the sobriety was just the beginning. What came after—the mindset work, the spiritual growth, learning to sit with herself without running—that's the part nobody warns you about when you put the substance down. And it's the part Michelle built her entire life around. She's a mindset coach, speaker, sales leader, and author of The Journey to Source Journal. She founded All Is Well Vi
"Why Would I Get Sober Just to Die?" (opens the original)
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David Niknafs, was born with Cystic Fibrosis, a chronic illness he was told he might not outlive. Growing up, people didn't ask him what he wanted to be. They asked when he was going to die. He formed friendships with other kids living with CF, grew close to them, and then had to watch them pass one by one. Today, at 39, he's the oldest person with Cystic Fibrosis he currently knows of. That reality shaped his relationship with addiction in ways most people never have to think about. For a long
From Patient to Provider: Recovery, Boundaries, and the Cost of Caring for Everyone Else (opens the original)
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Celeste Bowman was 23 when she was diagnosed with HIV. In the early years, the diagnosis felt less like a medical reality and more like a verdict—she says plainly that it was hard for a 23-year-old to grapple with something so tied, in most people's minds, to death. For a while, it was almost like the diagnosis had a voice of its own, telling her she'd never even cared about living before it showed up. She didn't let that be the end of the story. Celeste became a licensed therapist and addiction
"I Was Superman for Everyone Except Myself" (opens the original)
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By the time Adam Jablin was 30, he had the life he was supposed to want. A family business he'd spent his life stepping into, a wife, a home, a body he'd sculpted through years of competitive bodybuilding. From the outside, he was the guy who had it figured out.Inside, he was drowning. Alcohol and pills had become the only way he knew how to keep playing the role everyone needed him to play—provider, protector, the one who always had it together. He calls it being "Superman." Not a compliment. A
She Skipped Rehab and AA—Here's How Melissa McGovern Got Sober Anyway (opens the original)
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For years, Melissa McGovern tried to get sober on her own terms—cutting out alcohol for a while, feeling great, then slowly letting it creep back in under the guise of moderation. The cycle repeated more than once. Then one of the worst things imaginable happened: she lost her best friend, who had spent years cycling in and out of rehabs and homeless shelters. Melissa coped the only way she knew how: by binging food and alcohol. By summer 2023, her health finally caught up with her. A doctor's v
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