
Recovery Dialogues and Sober Stories (RDSS) is an addiction and mental health recovery podcast hosted by Antonio Matta, exploring recovery 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 to confront the cultural and systemic forces shaping who gets well. RDSS s... more
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 45 | Founded | 3 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | Health & FitnessMental Health | |||

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
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
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
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
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
Curious about EMDR beyond the hype? Antonio Matta breaks down what actually happens before and during reprocessing, tackles five real community questions—from safety and side effects to complex PTSD, dissociation, and addiction—and weaves therapist V... more
A private letter arrived that mirrors my own season of struggle, so I explore what it means to “try everything” and still feel alone—while honoring the writer’s boundaries and the power of consent. This solo conversation is my public response to that... more
A returning sponsor sparks a timely conversation about how meaningful work can anchor recovery. Antonio explores the link between employment, mental health, and housing needs, drawing from real voices in online forums and evidence-based models like I... more










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