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Recovery Dialogues and Sober Stories

Antonio Matta
Addiction Recovery
Peer Support
Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn
Mental Health Care Access
Relationships In Recovery
Mental Health Awareness Month
Mental Health Treatment Access
Trauma Recovery
Mental Health Recovery
Substance Use Disorder In Older Adults
Connection In Recovery
Therapeutic Continuity
Mental Health Stigma
Mental Health
Russell
Recovery
Freedom
Ghost Networks
Retirement Interview
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Recovery Dialogues and Sober Stories (RDSS) is a peer-led addiction and mental health recovery podcast hosted by Antonio Matta, exploring addiction recovery and mental wellness as self-improvement—a self-directed process of reaching your potential through deliberate change. Episodes draw on "lived experience experts," clinical insight, and journalistic commentary that offers coping strategies, exp... more

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Latest Episodes

Ever freeze, people-please, or snap when you feel unsafe, then blame yourself later? Those reactions are your body trying to protect you. Peer specialist Antonio Matta explains why they happen and shares a simple 10-minute practice to help you feel c... more

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At 80, Russell has been sober longer than most overdose-awareness campaigns have existed. He and addiction medicine physician Dr. Sylvie Stacy from Rehab.com talk mental health, addiction recovery, and the clinical insight nobody applies to self impr... more

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Mental health, self improvement, addiction recovery, and the overlooked truths about who gets care—and who doesn't. Cynthia lives with severe depression, anxiety, PTSD, and disability, and found a therapist who finally made treatment feel possible—un... more

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On the day this country celebrates independence, we asked what freedom actually means in addiction and mental health recovery. Seven real answers—from faith to found family to living fully despite an ongoing diagnosis—surface one of the most overlook... more

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Mental health, addiction recovery, and self-improvement all have one overlooked truth in common: getting better is hard to do alone—and yet building new relationships may be the hardest part of recovery nobody talks about. In this solo episode, Anton... more

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61.5 million Americans are living with mental illness—and nearly 30 million of them received no treatment last year. In this special Mental Health Awareness Month bonus episode, trauma-informed peer support counselor and author R. Antonio Matta reads... more

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UCLA addiction scientist Dr. Suzette Glasner joins Antonio to turn recovery from a rare headline into routine care—how to scale MOUD access, bring families into treatment, and fix the metrics that fail patients. Building on her exclusive conversation... more

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Recovery isn’t a montage. In this Recovery Month episode, Antonio Matta names the Paradox of Control and the quiet shift toward nonlinear, pace-yourself healing—then models a brief “Dear Day-One Me” note and walks through five 10-minute neuroplastici... more

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Recent Guests

Sylvie Stacy
Addiction medicine and preventive medicine physician with more than a decade of clinical experience
Rehab.com
Episode: Still Here, Still Becoming
Laurie Groh
Licensed professional counselor, psychotherapist, and women's mental health advocate specializing in trauma and burnout.
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Episode: When the System Runs Out: Trauma, Disability, and the Fight to Keep the Care That Works
Rani Cholagh
Behavioral health access leader focused on strategic partnerships and closing gaps in care.
Pacific Health Group
Episode: When the System Runs Out: Trauma, Disability, and the Fight to Keep the Care That Works

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Antonio Matta
Trauma-informed peer support specialist, memoirist and recovery advocate

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Still Here, Still Becoming
Q: Walk me through why substance use disorder in older adults gets missed. By families, by primary care, even by behavioral health systems built for younger patients.
Stacy explains that older adults may not show the social or occupational consequences commonly associated with addiction, and warning signs can be mistaken for aging. Clinicians may also lack time to screen, while assessment tools often reflect younger populations.
Still Here, Still Becoming
Q: Thirty years is longer than many of our listeners have been alive. What does staying sober feel like now compared to year one?
Russell says he was terrified of relapse during his first year, but fear no longer motivates him. He focuses on the present rather than comparing now with the past.
When the System Runs Out: Trauma, Disability, and the Fight to Keep the Care That Works
Q: What does the research actually say about what's lost when someone has to start over mid-treatment?
Laurie says research links the therapeutic alliance with treatment outcomes. A transfer during treatment can require clients to rebuild safety and rapport and retell difficult experiences, potentially disrupting progress.
When the System Runs Out: Trauma, Disability, and the Fight to Keep the Care That Works
Q: Before you found therapy through BetterHelp, what did your relationship with mental health care actually look like? Had you been in therapy before, or was this really your first real experience with it?
Cynthia had received intensive therapy in New York, then experienced interruptions during the pandemic and after moving to Florida. Her insurance stopped paying for a Florida therapist in 2022, and she struggled to find consistent covered care.

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What is Recovery Dialogues and Sober Stories about and what kind of topics does it cover?

Peer-led conversations explore addiction recovery, mental wellness, trauma, stigma and the practical conditions that help people access care. Antonio Matta, a trauma-informed peer support specialist and memoirist, combines personal reflection, research, clinical perspectives and lived experience. Some episodes are solo, with Matta explaining recovery concepts and offering coping practices; others pair personal accounts with interviews featuring clinicians, behavioral health leaders and people with long-term recovery experience. The discussions connect individual experiences to broader issues such as insurance barriers, disability access, aging, treatment continuity and the role of peer support. A distinctive focus on connection and self-dir... more

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