Recovery Now Radio

20/10/2022

Dear friends,

We’re sorry to announce that for the foreseeable future Recovery Now Radio will be taking a break.

The reason we can’t continue to produce and distribute our shows is financial. Hosting each month costs more than we can afford and as we all face an increasing cost of living things are certain to become more difficult.

Is this the end for RNR? No, certainly not. We are going to regroup and look at returning in the future as part of a much bigger partnership.

For now, however, we would like to extend our thanks to you all for your support and friendship.

Many thanks,

Team RNR

17/10/2022

Morning everyone, just a reminder of group therapy this evening ☺️ 6.30pm til 8pm Richmond Rd 👍 look forward to seeing as many of you as possible 🙏

10/10/2022

Just a reminder there is a group session this evening in Richmond Rd baptist college. 6.30 start 😊 please come along and let's recover together with Room To Live 🙏

09/10/2022

Room To Live are proud to announce its first gratitude evening. This will be to celebrate Dee and her contribution over the years to the Living Room.
Also a chance for us all to reflect on what the living room has given us ❤️😊.
Weds 19th October 7pm til 9pm. There will be a sumptuous buffet and a selection of hot and cold drinks.
A payment of £10 per person is required on the evening.
Cash only please as we do not have a bank account as of yet. If there are any special dietary requirements please contact myself or Jo Dwyer.
We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible for this joyous event 🎉🎉🎊🎊

Address is Baptist College, Richmond Rd, Cardiff cf243ad.
Parking is available in the mid section of the car park and surrounding walled areas.

09/10/2022

🚪Just a reminder that we will be opening our doors at 6.30 pm on Monday 11th Oct for our peer led mixed group therapy session. All welcome, donations for tea and coffee, only give what you can, and if you can't please still come along 🙏.
Directions are Baptist College, Richmond Rd, Cardiff 54 Richmond Rd, Cardiff CF24 3UR.
Parking Is available in the middle of the car park and around the outer edges, but not directly in front of the building. Look forward to seeing you at Room To Live 😊

03/10/2022

Just a reminder!!!. Today 😊😊
Our first peer led mixed group therapy will take place tomorrow, Mon 3rd October at 6.30 pm!.
We look forward to welcoming you all back.
The address is behind the back of the Baptist College in Richmond Rd Cardiff (our old location)CF243AT.
Please note there is no parking outside the very front of the building, but parking is permitted in the middle of the car park and around the outer edges of the wall.
See you at 6.30 pm and let's all recover together 🙏🫶
Donations for tea and coffee would be most welcome.

03/10/2022

Hey folks! It’s the Monday Fire! Let’s recover together:

Welcome to episode four of The Monday Fire. This week, Nick asks us "how negative am I today, how difficult am I in my life?" Negativity has great potential to derail our recoveries, when we tell ourselves "I'm never going to manage this Recovery in the long term." Of course, our minds have no way o...

02/10/2022

Just a reminder!!!.
Our first peer led mixed group therapy will take place tomorrow, Mon 3rd October at 6.30 pm!.
We look forward to welcoming you all back.
The address is behind the back of the baptist college in Richmond Rd Cardiff (our old location)CF243AT.
Please note there is no parking outside the very front of the building, but parking is permitted in the middle of the car park and around the outer edges of the wall.
See you at 6.30 pm and let's all recover together 🙏🫶
Donations for tea and coffee would be most welcome.

29/09/2022

⚡NEWSFLASH ⚡
To all our living roomers past and present!
We are delighted to announce that as from October we will be back 😊
There will be a peer led mixed group session every Monday at 6.30pm for those already in recovery and wanting recovery. New people are also welcome.
Our first meeting will be on Monday 3rd October, 6.30 pm at our old location at the back of the Baptist College in Richmond Rd Cardiff CF243AT.
Please note that parking will be permitted in the middle of the car park and along the outer walls but NOT directly outside the front area of the building.
We look forward to welcoming you all back on Mon 3rd Oct 6.30 pm.
Let's All Recover Together 🙏.
Donations for tea and coffee etc most welcome 😊

26/09/2022

Good morning everyone! It’s The Monday Fire! Fifteen minutes of recovery motivation and inspiration to start your week of wellness!

Welcome to episode 3 of The Monday Fire, starting our week by getting our head in the Recovery Game for the next seven days. This week, Nick talks us through the perennial question that as addicts in Recovery we ask ourselves - "am I enough?" Can we be the husbands, wives, parents, and friends that....

25/09/2022

Hey everyone! Tomorrow’s episode of The Monday Fire is coming to you at 8am! Start the week strong tomorrow!

19/09/2022

Friends, while we take time to reflect on this bank holiday Monday, here is the next episode of our new show, The Monday Fire:

Good morning listeners, and welcome to the second episode of The Monday Fire!! This week Nick looks at the purpose of recovery. Is it just to exist free from our addictions? Of course not!! It's about finding purpose, about being the best version of ourselves that we can be, every day. Listen now to...

12/09/2022

Dear friends, it’s our great pleasure to bring to you the Monday Fire, our new way to start the recovery week:

S01 E01

12/09/2022

Get ready, we’re starting the recovery week with a blast in TWO HOURS!

10/09/2022

We’re going live at 8am on Monday folks!

02/09/2022

Update #3!

Hi folks, this is a quick check in with the entire RNR community to let you know that we've recorded our first new show, the Monday Fire. It's an burst of motivational energy for Monday mornings to kickstart that recovery week.

We're very proud of this new podcast and we can now reveal our launch date, Monday September 12th.

We'll be going live at 8am and there will be new thoughts, ideas and prompts, so have a pen and paper handy.

We will have more announcements in the next week but until then, take great care of yourselves and let's recover together!.

17/08/2022

Update No 2:

Hello folks, great to be connecting with you all again. Here's more on the future of RNR, and the new shows that will be coming your way.

The Monday Fire

Each Monday, we will be starting the week with a fifteen minute blast of recovery motivation, inspiration and ideas to spur us into that all important action we need to take. The Monday Fire will be coming to you in September.

The Change

Each week, we'll put out a second show for people looking for change in their lives called, appropriately, The Change. In recovery we can't stand still, we must keep growing, risking and trying and The Change is just the show to help you on that journey.

Lets Recover Together and The Reaching Out Show

Ok, so here's where things are changing. Because of the eye watering costs of renewing our public performance license (the expensive piece of paper that allows us to play commercial music), we have to move these shows to our Mixcloud platform (which gives us the licence as part of our subscription). This means that the shows will still be available, along with new episodes as we record them for a small monthly fee.

This page

As we break with old relationships (see previous post), we will be starting afresh with a completely new page. We'll give you the link to this as we start to migrate over in the next week or so.

We hope you'll join us on this exciting new chapter in RNR and, as ever, Let's Recover Together.

15/08/2022

I personally cannot wait to come back and be part of an awesome team who are dedicated to help and recovery🙏 love to all our followers and listeners 😊 lisa. Team RnR

15/08/2022

Friends, we’ve been waiting for quite some time to write this post and to tell you all that in the next few weeks, Recovery Now Radio will be back.
We will be bringing a new message of hope, freedom, vitality and growth to our listeners across the world. There will be a few changes but the core task - reaching the addict wherever they are - continues.

So what happened?

In short, we were prevented from recording by the group, Adferiad, that administered the small charity that started RNR, the Living Room Cardiff. Adferiad had reasons of procedure and protocol for doing this (they suspended all volunteering at the Living Room while paperwork was completed) but the result was that we were unable to reach RNR’s audience.
This post is not a criticism of Adferiad in any way - these things happen and charities have to ensure things are done in particular ways. The RNR team now operates independently of any charity and we’ve had some time to re-group, plan and prepare to bring a new weekly format.

The new weekly line up of shows will be announced soon and will be coming to you in September.

Until then, we are profoundly grateful to all of you who have supported us, listened to the shows, been guests and spread the word to those who need to hear it.

Stay safe all and let’s recover together.

Team RNR

28/06/2022

Sending love all around the world 🌍

24/02/2022

Hey everyone, we are very pleased to announce that Recovery Now Radio is available on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/2heUHpwXkAq4JrHklodyq6?si=5VYHBH5USVO80LdI0sbSRg

And iTunes:

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lets-recover-together/id1610523910

And we need the help of our community to spread the message to the struggling addict out there. Please like our shows, leave a comment and share with as many people as possible. Reviews really do make all the difference, and will help us creating new recovery content for you all.

Listen to Let's Recover Together on Spotify. Recovery Now Radio is an online podcast and radio station that transmits a daily message of hope to everyone on the journey from addiction to wellness. Each episode contains recovery stories, great music, love, inspiration and courage. We have just starte...

05/02/2022

Welcome to episode 15 of The Reaching Out Show. Continuing the theme for 2022 of motivating ourselves to grow during this year, today Nick looks at embracing positivity, and working out who the "real me" is in Recovery. In active addiction, our identity was often portrayed through our job, or our role in some element of society or another. But really, that was all part of the façade. So, how do we work out who we really are? Tune in now to hear more!!

https://www.mixcloud.com/Recovery_Now_Radio/the-reaching-out-show-s02-e15/

Welcome to episode 15 of The Reaching Out Show. Continuing the theme for 2022 of motivating ourselves to grow during this year, today Nick looks at embracing positivity, and working out who the "real me" is in Recovery. In active addiction, our identity was often portrayed through our job, or our ro...

05/02/2022

https://www.mixcloud.com/Recovery_Now_Radio/the-reaching-out-show-s02-e15/

Welcome to episode 15 of The Reaching Out Show. Continuing the theme for 2022 of motivating ourselves to grow during this year, today Nick looks at embracing positivity, and working out who the "real me" is in Recovery. In active addiction, our identity was often portrayed through our job, or our ro...

05/02/2022

Morning everyone. We are having a technical issue with this mornings reaching out show. We are on it and hope to get this fixed ASAP. 🙏📻

29/01/2022

Live now - episode 14 of The Reaching Out Show!! Today Nick talks about having a good quality of life in Recovery, a life of spiritual richness and contentment. We do this by taking action, by taking the right decisions to help our recoveries and by tackling the issues we always avoided in active addiction.

https://www.mixcloud.com/Recovery_Now_Radio/the-reaching-out-show-s01-e14/

Welcome to episode 14 of The Reaching Out Show. Today Nick talks about having a good quality of life in Recovery, a life of spiritual richness and contentment. We do this by taking action, by taking the right decisions to help our recoveries and by tackling the issues we always avoided in active add...

28/01/2022

Here at recovery now radio we put our all in to bringing you the best of the best when it comes to recovery. That is why over 50 plus episodes in we are the only radio station in the UK to achieve that. Of course we could not do it without the continual support of our followers and listeners, so we all want to say a huge thank you from the bottom of our hearts ❤️❤️💯💥🤜👏📻

22/01/2022

Welcome listeners, to the latest episode of "Let's Recover Together". This episode is a bit of a first for "Recovery Now Radio" and "Let's Recover Together", and in it we speak to Trina, a support worker for an organisation in the Midlands that exists to support the families of people in addiction. There are a huge number of organisations throughout the UK, and indeed the world, that help folks in recovery, and their families, but this is the first time that Recovery Now Radio has spoken to any of them. It was so much fun recording this episode that we are sure it wont be the last!! Trina, chose an especially strong playlist for her episode (New Model Army, The Go-Gos, and The Clash for starters) and Trina's interview shows those of us in recovery a side of addiction that we perhaps don't always think about too deeply. Truly an episode not to be missed!!

https://www.mixcloud.com/Recovery_Now_Radio/lets-recover-together-s02-e13/

Welcome listeners, to the latest episode of "Let's Recover Together". This episode is a bit of a first for "Recovery Now Radio" and "Let's Recover Together", and in it we speak to Trina, a support worker for an organisation in the Midlands that exists to support the families of people in addiction.....

17/01/2022

Welcome to a brand new day 🙏📻🌍

15/01/2022

Welcome, dear listeners - the weekend is here, and that means a new episode of "The Reaching Out Show"!!

Negative thinking and catastrophising - we're all guilty of it!! How does it impact on our recoveries? More importantly, how can we deal with it effectively and in a way that benefits our recoveries? In this episode Nick looks long and hard at the issue of negativity, of how our tendency is to convince ourselves that whatever we do, it is bound to fail. In a series of programmes that are proving to be super-helpful for the recovery community, this is a real standout gem.

https://www.mixcloud.com/Recovery_Now_Radio/the-reaching-out-show-s01-e13/

Negative thinking and catastrophising - we're all guilty of it!! How does it impact on our recoveries? More importantly, how can we deal with it effectively and in a way that benefits our recoveries? In this episode Nick looks long and hard at the issue of negativity, of how our tendency is to convi...