Rock Bottom 2 Recovery

*Some explicit language used*Rockbottom 2 Recovery Episode 45Ed Chionchio Sr (Jersey Ed) of the Friends in Recovery Podcast. Talking about his personal journey in addiction and recovery and introducing other helpful podcasts including Answering the Call - The First Responder Podcast & Collateral Damage PodcastCall/text Ed for more info: 215-694-1994Genesis House Recovery https://genesishouse.net/

We're here with our guest Derrick Lawson who discusses the importance of recovery and the struggles of dealing with Bipolar disorder

We're here with our guest Noel Sierra, SouthEast Regional Coordinator of MOAR

SPECIAL EDITION Rock Bottom 2 Recovery Episode 42with NY Comedian Patrick Holbert, in town to perform at Nick's Comedy Stop tonight and to talk about addiction, RECOVERY and life.

Rock Bottom 2 Recovery Podcast Episode 41,is up and rolling on FB Live today!We're here with our guests Derek Quirke and Anthony Fitzmaurice from Revelations Retreat talking about the revelations of addiction, RECOVERY and life.

RB2R Podcast #40 with Stephen D Daniels from Baltimore talking about gambling, porn & sex addiction, and food. #spreadkindness

Rock Bottom 2 Recovery Podcast episode 39 with Shane Johnson talking about recovery, life, family and marriage.

RB2R Podcast Episode 38. Our Guest is Bulldogs Care an amazing group of Holbrook High/ Middle school students tackling addiction (early stage) and bringing education and awareness and making a difference in our (and surrounding ) communities. 

RB2R Episode 37 w/ James A. Booker, and Francis Burnett from Sober Shuttle, Inc. Supporting recovery for nearly 10 years.

Rock Bottom 2 Recovery Episode 36. Our guest today is Morgan Vayda. We'll be talking about addiction, recovery and life.CHECK OUT PAST EPISODES ON PODBEAN & ITUNES.

Rock Bottom 2 Recovery ( on Podbean & Itunes) episode 35 with Derek Quirke from Josephs House by Revelations Recovery.Talking about addiction, recovery, life, and the 1st Annual Revelations Recovery Award Recognition Banquet Sunday Sept 23rd. The event is being sponsored by Corey Phinney and the Safe Project Foundation Inc.

Here today with Bobby Ellard and his mother, Cyndi Pagnotto discussing addiction and recovery through the Recover Strong program https://www.facebook.com/recoverstrong

RB2R Episode 33 with Susie Lordi from 24HRPower.com. Founder of Tag Recovery GraffitiFests. Talking about the graffitti recovery movement, and all things recovery. 

Host Bill Farrell is joined by his uncle Kevin Farrell to talk about Alcoholic Annoynmous, Sobriety and The Twelve Steps.

Rock Bottom 2 Recovery Podcast episode 31 with Coach Mike Ferullo and Kevin O'Toole Boston Bulldogs Running Club talking about addiction, recovery and running.

Rock Bottom 2 Recovery podcast episode 30 with our guest Sarah O'Brien

Today on Rock Bottom 2 Recovery episode 29. Our guest is Pat Cronin ( and his story) Director of Public Relations/Business Development at Northeast Addictions Treatment Center    https://neaddictions.com

Rockbottom 2 Recovery Epsiode 28. With guest Robyn Huston Bean from The Sun Will Rise Foundation talking about the loss of her amazing son Nick to addiction at the age of 20. http://www.thesunwillrise.org/   This weekend the 3rd Annual Beanstock Music Festival July 14th Braintree, Ma.   Online Tickets Here. https://beanstockmusicfestival2018.eventbrite.com/

Rock Bottom 2 Recovery podcast episode 27 with Lizabeth Loud talking about addiction and recovery. 

Rock Bottom 2 Recovery Podcast episode 26 with Kevin G Rosario from Gosnold Treatment Center.CHECK OUT RB2R 's other episodes!!https://www.facebook.com/rockbottom2recovery/LISTEN on PODBEANhttps://rockbottomtorecovery.podbean.com/

Rock Bottom 2 Recovery Podcast Episode 25. Our guest is Jay Keefe and we are talking about alcohol, addiction and recovery.CHECK OUT OUR OTHER EPISODES on PODBEANhttps://rockbottomtorecovery.podbean.com/ Jay is a Sober Companion, helping clients establish healthy routines at home or after checking out of a residential treatment facility. He is also a National Academy of Sports Medicine Certified Personal Trainer and a Certified Health Coach with The Institute for Integrative Nutrition. In July of 2015, Jay’s book, “And Drink I Did”, about his own recovery from alcoholism, was publish on Amazon, CHECK IT OUT!! https://www.amazon.com/Drink-I-Did…/…/163503020X/ref=sr_1_1…

The 3rd installment on the legalization of RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA and our youth with Heidi Heilman from The Massachusetts Prevention Alliance which provides educational resources and advocates for sound drug and alcohol policies to PROTECT the HEALTH and WELL-BEING of all Massachusetts YOUTH.Check out their website and see what they've been doing for almost 10 years in our State!!http://www.mapreventionalliance.org/Check out our past episodes!!https://www.facebook.com/rockbottom2recovery/

OUR GUEST SPEAKER on RB2R is...Henny Lasley, a Colorado resident since 1998, is an active board member of Smart Colorado and one of the founding members. Henny dedicates over 60 hours a week assisting in the policy and administrative work of the organization. Additionally, she currently serves as a co-chair on the board of trustees for Colorado Ballet. Henny is a former board member of Rose Women’s Organization, a donor advised fund of Rose Community Foundation. She has held a wide variety of volunteer positions over the past 12 years.Henny is married and the mother of three children.CHECK US OUT!!https://www.facebook.com/rockbottom2recovery/

Rock Bottom 2 Recovery Podcast Episode 22Recreational Marijuana...oh no!!With pot shops getting ready to open July 1st I'll be discussing what's happened since we've legalized it and what we can expect.SO TRUE!!!Nora Volkow, MD, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, sat down with The Boston Globe to talk about marijuana legalization and the opioid crisis facing the country. Her answer to the Globe’s first question should make us all stop and think: Q. What are your thoughts on pot legalization? A. The greatest mortality from drugs comes from legal drugs. The moment you make a drug legal, you’re going to increase the number of people who get exposed to it, and therefore you increase the negative consequences from its use. When you legalize, you create an industry whose purpose is to make money selling those drugs. And how do you sell it? Mostly by enticing people to take them and entice them to take high quantities.

Rock Bottom 2 Recovery Podcast episode 21 with Boston City Councillor at Large Annissa Essaibi George (Mom, former teacher and small business owner) talking about safe injection sites and pharmacies taking back needles.Check out who Annissa is...https://www.boston.gov/…/city-council/annissa-essaibi-george

Rock Bottom 2 Recovery Podcast episode 20 with former Army Veteran, Brockton police officer Mike Darrah discussing his addiction, recovery, and boxing.

Our guest today is Executive Director Judy McDonough of the EDWINA MARTIN HOUSE for WOMEN in RECOVERY. We'll be talking about the new graduate house and their upcoming comey/dinner show event at the IBEW Hall in Boston this Saturday April 21st. with professional comedians Carolyn Plummer, Jim Colliton and the always amazing talented Joey Noone. So come on out for a night of fun thats for a great cause. Tickets will be available at the door. CHECK OUT our other episodes on RB2R on ITUNES, PODBEAN and FB page.https://www.facebook.com/rockbottom2recovery/

Rock Bottom 2 Recovery Podcast ADDICTION to PORNOGRAPHY with Matt Dobschuetz from PORN FREE RADIO. Listen to Matt's addiction to pornography and how he is RECOVERING from it. Also check out Matt's podcast and his recovery site for more information. Thanks for listening. Sometimes these topics can get...sticky!! But we white knuckled throught it! Recovered Manhttps://www.facebook.com/recoveredman/ Porn Free Radio

Our guest is Scott Melissa from Granite Mountain Behavioral Healthcare today discussion is about GAMBLING ADDICTION.Please see the below links and resources: https://masscompulsivegambling.org/ https://masscompulsivegambling.org/get-help/call-for-help/ Granite Mountain Behavioral Health Carehttps://www.facebook.com/granitemountainbhc/ Recover Strong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOiAiSLESY4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXHLRcDZfaw

Rock Bottom 2 Recovery podcast, with our guest Olen Givens, Skyping in from waaay up in Vermont near the Canadian border. Olen talks about Bigfoot, and using marijuana (not with Bigfoot!), as a teen and into his 40's before finally quitting.Check out our FB page and our past RB2R episodes. Laurie Zupkofskahttps://www.facebook.com/rockbottom2recovery/

On this Valentines Day Show, our special guest is Amber Hersey-Smith and she is an awesome, amazing young woman who has had a lot of hardship because both parents struggled with substance use disorder. One recovered, one didn't. Listen to her story and the effect it had on her and her family why she choose to make a positive difference by helping others, through education, awareness and most of all life experience.  

COME BACK SHANE!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtoCw2iOTSc We start the episode off with a clip of Shane's namesake, the 1953 western entitled, "Shane".   SHANE's BACK!! Life is haHD, and sometimes it gets the better of us. Shane disappeared for a short amount of time towards the end of 2017, and he's back to tell us what happened and where we are going from here. Find us on FB.

We welcome January 31st, 2018 Rock Bottom 2 Recovery Podcast with our guest Michael Petit Entertainer /Professional Stand Up- On Camera Host/Impressionist Michael Petit as he talks about the before and afters of Sobriety in the entertainment industry. GO PATS!!!   

The 2 sobah scallies welcome Jesse Heffernan, National Outreach & Empowerment Coordinator for Faces & Voices of Recovery as he talks about his recovery and how his organization reaches out to those who need it.  https://facesandvoicesofrecovery.org/

Join Bill and special guest host Mike O'Sullivan, the National Outreach Director of Granite Mountain Behavioral Health as they discuss all things sobriety and recovery.  While long-term treatment is the ideal approach for creating sustainable recovery, Granite Mountain BHC understand that often there are financial and environmental challenges that make commitment to a long-term treatment process difficult. That is why each client’s treatment plan is designed with these realities in mind.   https://granitemountainbhc.com/

Join us as we talk to Dr. Ruth Potee as we reenter the casting of Pods. "We have to start recognizing that addiction is a real disease" Dr. Potee discusses the disease of addiction and its affectivness on adolescents. https://ruthpotee.com/

We're back baby after a long break!Today we are discussing the Higher Power and its place in recovery.If you ever wondered if your Higher power had a name then come check out The Alpha Course, the first night is called "Is There More To Life Than This" . Come down on Sept 14th to St Joe's Holbrook Dinner served at 6:30 pm You can see what it is all about then decide if it's for you. Check out our FB page too!  https://www.facebook.com/rockbottom2recovery/ Higher Power is a term coined in the 1930s in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and is used in other twelve-step programs. It is also sometimes referred to as a power greater than ourselves and is frequently abbreviated to HP. The term sometimes refers to a supreme being or deity, or some conception of God.  

Host Bill Farrell welcomes Massachusetts State Senator John Keenan. Senator Keenan is a leading proponent of major reforms addressing prescription drug abuse and substance abuse treatment. Senator Keenan continues to focus on the opiate abuse epidemic, with several pieces of legislation that aim to reduce our over-reliance on the pharmaceutical products that lead to addiction and overdose. He has several proposals that would expand access to treatment, reduce out of pocket costs for naloxone, provide broader and more effective pain management alternatives to opioid prescribing, strengthen the “Good Samaritan” law, and update trafficking statutes to reflect the recently emerged threat of fentanyl.

Host Shane Johnson and Bill Farrell welcome special guest Shannon Egan.  Shannon Egan is the author of No Tourists Allowed and Sex, Drugs & Recovery (coming fall of 2017). She is the host and creator of the Instagram video series, Create & Conquer, with over 40,000 followers, including creatives, writers, and people in recovery.  Shannon is a 17 X Award-Winning Grant Writer and a Marketing and Development Consultant for Addiction Recovery Organizations world-wide. Previously, she worked as a Journalist and Press Officer for the United Nations in Africa and New York City.   In her spare time, she masquerades as a cosplayer to offer a creative take on living in addiction recovery. http://www.shannonegan.com/

Hosts Shane Johnson and Bill Farrell continue the discussion about how to effectivly end the addiction issues of our time. 

Host Shane Johnson becomes a productive member of society by getting a job!  He and Bill continue totackle the addiction epidemic sweeping our nation by "tearing down society". 

This week we are joined by Big Brother Season 9 winner Adam Jasinski. Adam is an Author, Interventionist, Public Speaker, and Professional Consultant. On a mission to help families as well as those battling drug addiction and mental illness. 

This week we welcome special guest Judy McDonough, Executive Director of the Edwina Martin House in Brockton. The Edwina Martin House is one of Massachusetts' first recovery homes, designed specifically for women. Edwina Martin House offers services to 21 women and can accommodate up to 4 infants at a time. The House is located in the Brockton area but welcomes women from throughout the state.  They offer detoxification units and short term rehab centers. https://emhouse.org/  

We are joined by special guest Matt Ganem, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Banyan Treatment Center. In addition, Matt is a poet and the author of “The Shadow of an Addict.” Matt also hosts Banyan Recovery Radio and speaks to different schools, recovery programs and community forums on addiction. He is a huge voice for recovery not only in his hometown of Massachusetts, but nationwide. 

This episode we introduce ourselves to the world.