Recovery Universe November 8, 2009

Recovery Universe is going on it’s 5 year of serving online recovery to suffering alcoholics and addicts worldwide.

The idea for Recovery Universe was born in a treatment facility in Atlanta, Georgia. I spent 110 days there and got really close with a few people there that I wanted to keep in touch with after treatment. I was a application developer and did not know too much web programming at the time but I made the commitment to setting up a video chat room that my friends and I could use to keep in touch after we all got home. Ironically this never ended up happening but something even more exciting transpired. In February of 2004 Recovery Universe launched still with the intention of only being for a few friends. By the late summer of 2004 RU had over 500 members and the forums and chat rooms were growing fast.

In 2005 RU underwent its 1st real transformation since the inception. This is the version that adapted the popular logo that has been used since. The colors of the site have always reamained the same (blue and tan) but the site has undergone 4 major overhauls. 

By 2006 the site was running strong and I was getting emails daily thanking me for providing a safe and clean place for people to share their experience, strength, and hope online. This reinforced in me the reasons I started the site to begin with and made me more active than ever in the site itself. 

By 2008 things had been up and down. Good times and bad times and I had all but stepped out of using it as a tool for myself and more just hid behind the scenes and worked on improving the site. 2008 was a rough year for me and I had stepped away completely as I got a new job and supported my wife while she began going to alanon. I needed the time to work on myself and get things right in my life. The computer was just simply taking too much of my time. 

2009 is now here and my life has seemed to settle somewhat. I am getting a good balance going in my life and have returned to RU with newly aquired web programming skills and a strong desire to use Recovery Universe as an outlet for my programming hobby. What you see now is a compilation of 5 years of hard work and dedication to Recovery Universe. It is a safe clean enviroment for people to share. The people I have met and memories I have from this website are priceless. I hope to be alot more involved in the site in the future and will do my best to make sure that the doors of Recovery Universe stay open for the newcomer.

So please enjoy yourself and come share your experience, strength, and hope with us…

Yours in Recovery,

 J.J.D.

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The Sober Biker October 18, 2009

The whole idea for this site is to help get clean and sober people together, find and make new friends that are also clean and sober but still enjoy going on rides with some down home folks, going to a biker event, listening to bands and just plain want to be them self. When Topper and I go to these events and rides it seems like we’re the only ones not drinking. We have just as much fun and do some crazy shit too but, when we’re pulled over or when we wake up, we don’t have all those head aches that those high folks do. We do not endorse any one recovery program or religion. ALL are welcome here for fellowship and participating in each others recovery. This site is also for people that may be thinking they have a “problem” or just don’t want to hang around and ride with a bunch of drunken high knuckle heads. I believe that everyone’s paths cross for a reason and I certainly do not want to get in the way.

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SoberMoms ~ The Great Book Club August 18, 2009

For all the SoberMoms out there please come join our community at

http://sobermoms.ning.com/ !

We are starting a new read for fall in our group

The Great Book Club

Addicted Like Me: A Mother-Daughter Story of Substance Abuse and Recovery

http://www.amazon.com/Addicted-Like-Me-Mother-Daughter-Substance/dp…

“In telling their shared story from two perspectives, the authors illuminate how recovery can save a family. This is a gripping story that also offers hope and help to families and individuals suffering from addiction.”

Ken Seeley, BRI II, RASi

A&E Interventionist

Founder, Intervention911.com

We are fortunate enough to have mother and daughter here as members at SoberMoms.

Sanewire April 24, 2009

Sanewire, the online community for persons in recovery, their family, friends, and support network. This is a safe, healthy community where you can come each day to find friendship, fellowship, support, as well as treatment centers and rehabilitation resources to assist you with dependency on alcohol, crystal meth, cocaine, crack, heroin, oxycontin prescription drugs, compulsive gambling, co-dependency, dual recovery, eating disorders, and sexual addiction. You’ll also find a large database of meetings for Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Alanon, Alateen, Cocaine Anonymous, Crystal Meth Anonymous, Heroin Anonymous, Gamblers Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous, and Sex Addicts Anonymous. We invite you to make Sanewire part of your daily life and to share the site with family and friends so they can stay in touch and support your efforts.

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Sober Musicians November 5, 2008

From our mission statement…

…Our aim is to help one another. Although you will see here and there references and links to many recovery programs, it is our wish that this website,
Sober Musicians
remain non denominational. Meaning we don’t get into stupid arguments about which way is better to get and stay sober.

There are plenty other forums and message boards on the Web to join and argue the merits of our recovery programs, if we have one. With that said, let this be our Mission Statement, for lack of a simpler term.

…My friend Gooch calls it our Tablature. A place for sober artists of every stripe, or those sobering up. A Sober Studio if you will, that our music and art may thrive beyond our addiction.

One more crucial thing, folks… You gotta be wanting to have fun if you visit the forums!

For years, we played music in bars, or Pete’s garage on Friday Nights, or on the corner of Portage and Main, watching the dimes and quarters drop in the case… Some of us played until our fingers lost their touch… Some of us played until the notes inside our minds exhausted themselves into staccato silences…

Most of us played loaded with alcohol and drugs, believing they were the fuel to express our passion, a way to transcribe that which we felt was our link to the cosmic, the divine, the undefinable… In these pages, in no particular order or organized fashion, are our stories, our hopes and fears, our joys and sorrows, past and present.

We’re Treating Life Well now…

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