Finding Your Higher Power

In Recovery

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Dave from Dopey podcast joins Nzinga to talk about 12 step recovery. Dave recently celebrated five years sober (yay!), which he largely credits to his 12 step community. But, there are parts that haven’t always felt “right” for him. This week, Nzinga and Dave dig into all of that and break down his fascinating experience getting and staying sober.

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0:55.4	Happy Monday, everybody. This is In Zenga, and you are listening to In Recovery. In case you're new to the show, I am a physician, a psychiatrist, an addiction expert, chief medical officer and co-founder of Eleanor Health, where we take care of folks with addiction, and host of In Recovery, your podcast, wife, mom, all around human being.
1:02.9	We talk about all things addiction on this show, not just drugs, but also things you might not
1:07.5	think of like exercise, other things you might think of like porn. And we're
1:12.8	really trying to break down the stigma and the barriers that make it so hard for people with
1:19.4	addiction to get help in this country by pointing out how each and every one of us actually
1:25.2	understands on some level what the experience of addiction is about.
1:30.0	So today, we're going to talk about 12-step programs.
1:34.4	Yeah, we've mentioned them a lot and wanted to devote a whole episode to the topic.
1:39.0	And I mean, as somebody who, like, helps to produce this podcast is the producer of a show about recovery. I don't know
1:46.4	that much about 12 step programs. Yeah, I think that's actually the case for a lot of people, which is why
1:51.9	I'm excited that we're doing this episode. I'm also excited to bring on my friend Dave. He has been the
1:58.3	host of Dopey podcast, which he started about five years ago with his
2:01.9	close friend, Chris. And they call it a show about, quote, drugs, addiction, and dumb shit.
2:09.4	So you can get a peek into his personality there. On a sadder note a couple of years ago in 2018
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