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Viral Recovery

Promoting and celebrating recovery from addiction. At the intersection of addiction recovery, The Internet and social media – disruption is everywhere.

“The Disruptive Intersection of Addiction Recovery and The Internet”

There is a collision, dare we say explosion, happening. Nearly everyone starts their search for recovery from addictions of all kinds online. Some are actually “recovering”, beginning their recovery process or supplementing their recovery online. Virtually 100% of families of addicts and addicts themselves go online for answers

before they do anything else. Many savvy marketers discovered this early on but many smaller community rehabs still struggle to keep up with the whole “Internet thing”. But the big changes are in the actual recovery processes being carried out online. Courses, meetings and platforms of all types are exploding. Some websites brought the 12 steps online – and exploded. Many 12 step “old timers” revolted. Some folks broke, and continue to break, their “anonymity” in hopes of reducing the stigma of addiction and fostering better health care for addicts of all stripes. (We support them BTW)

See Our Mission

Anonymity is being redefined. Slowly for some, very rapidly for others. The digital natives see it way differently than the folks that got recovery pre-Internet or in the early days of the Internet. In all of this I’m reminded of the sci-fi author William Gibson’s quote:

“The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.”

William Gibson is the person who coined the term “cyberspace”. The future is here. But in lots of ways both the actual recovery movement and the recovery “business” is lagging behind woefully in what is possible with the power of the web. Here at Viral Recovery we chronicle the intersection of addiction recovery and the Internet, curating the thought leaders and doers and telling success stories of people, online and off, who have the courage to recover from addictions of all kinds.

08/08/2021

Peer Recovery... Who can give me their definition?

12/27/2020

Please check this out and let me know your thoughts...

The Sugar-Free Man ate Sugar on Christmas?

I’ve hesitated to confess to this…

I thought I had it all together.

That it would blow my reputation.

But I let my guard down.

Just for a second.

And BAM.

Sugar snuck in there.

How could this happen?

So here’s the story.

We were preparing for Christmas Day Dinner.

We were starting with appetizers.

Well, once or twice a year I go crazy and have a few potato chips just to taste them.

My partner had bought the SAME brand she always gets and we of course read every label.

This time though, something had changed and she didn’t read the label assuming it was the same as last Christmas! (the last time I had a chip)

But, as what often happens out there in processed food land, they had started adding cane sugar to the recipe! WTF!

It used to be just potatoes and sea salt!

I’m talking health food store, avocado oil - the whole nine!

As soon as I taste one I know.

Sweet taste on salty chips?

Anyway, I dig the bag out of the trash, and sure enough…

Cane freakin’ Sugar.

I was PI**ED!

Not at Gina but at the processed food companies!

Sugar-Free people have rights too!

Anyway, about ten times in the 30 years I’ve been sugar-free - this same thing has happened.

Once a dear friend made me a special salad dressing and SWORE there was no sugar in it…

Little did she know that agave syrup is over 70% FRUCTOSE… (High test sugar)

So, I just enjoyed the little buzz.

Yes, I got a buzz on two chips.

And then I literally crashed on the couch. (I NEVER fall asleep on the couch)

You may think I’m super sensitive.

But I challenge you to try your own sugar detox and see what happens when you get a little sugar after a time with none…

I would have never believed it myself.

If you want to join our 30-day Challenge to put sugar behind you then just say "I'm in" in the comments and I'll send you the info

I would have never believed it myself.

Mike
The SugarFreeMan

PS: Do I count this against my 30+ years of sugar freedom? Not at all. And you shouldn’t either. We’re all about being gentle with ourselves.

If you want to join our 30-day Challenge to put sugar behind you then just say "I'm in" in the comments and I'll send you the info

12/26/2020

Shout out your plan!

If you're not sugar-free yet... Declare your intentions!

12/23/2020

My story of quitting sugar...

Cold turkey or taper down?

Back and forth, back and forth - my story.

On sugar, off sugar.

Quitting and starting again.

For YEARS!

The headaches would start about four in the afternoon the first day and I just “didn’t have time”.

No time to be irritable to my workmates, friends, romantic partner and soon to be wife…

Let alone the starving all the time, sadness, and what felt like depression.

Then I started to string together two or three days (after I slept all weekend.)

But then I’d fall back again.

And this went on for over a year!

Once I made it a week and then a month…

Both times only to just have it ruined again with a binge.

But I felt I was making progress.

I was eating better and had more motivation.

I was doing an early version of what today we call harm reduction.

Each day with no sugar I healed more.

What I hadn’t done was make sugar-freedom into a lifestyle.

Then, plain and simple, I got lucky.

I hired a trainer at the gym to build up my muscles, such that they were…

This guy was a decade older than me (early 30’s at the time) and he was jacked! (gym slang for he was built like a brick you know what)

But here’s the thing, he was also super into good nutrition.

Most bodybuilders of the day were into heavy carbs to build size.

By then had read a book about sugar and was still trying to quit on my own.

My coach was cool.

Easy going and made boring trips to the gym super fun.

He was an excellent coach in that he pushed me when I wanted to give in.

He was really good at pushing me to be the best version of me that I could be.

In all things, not just weight lifting and cardio.

He would ask me about my work and see if there was anything he could help with there too.

In short, I got the real feeling that he wanted me to be the best version of me that I could.

In turn, I didn’t want to let him down.

So I showed up for my appointments and did the work as he pushed me, in a super positive way.

I was in better shape then than I ever was in my life.

As a result, I felt positive too.

Positive enough to just let the sugar slip away.

Someone believed that I could be the best version of myself and his attitude was contagious.

It was SO different than the environment that I grew up in...

And you know what?

I’m that guy for you.

I believe you can do this sugar thing.

If you’re into it, I’m here to help.

Stay positive.

Mike
The SugarFreeMan

PS: With Christmas coming I know “harm reduction” seems harder but please do everything now because in 2021 we, you and I, are going to beat this thing, I promise.

12/19/2020

Share your goals with us. Stretch! Go for what you want!v

Is your 2021 going to better than this damn 2020? Are you finally going to quit sugar? Or at least cutback?

12/18/2020

Shout out to your friends!

12/12/2020

Intrigued?

12/01/2020

It doesn't have to be perfect but we have to stop that "I'll wait till January" thing right here, right now. Start NOW!

11/18/2020

Everyone is different... What's your story?

10/19/2020

Go here to join for free: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sugardetox.sugaraddiction.supportgoup

Another GOLD Medal in our group today! That's 3 this WEEK! Plus a bunch of Bronze Medals (30 Days) and Silver's (60 Days) this week too! Check out our group in the first comment!

09/26/2020

Google doing good... Love it!

There is a new resource from Google to help people in recovery or looking for treatment.

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