Story #35: Joey Part 2 - The Part of Recovery Nobody Talks About, Accountability & Sobriety After Causing Harm

In Part 2 of Joey's story, we talk about accountability in sobriety and what it means to stay sober after causing harm. Accountability in addiction recovery isn't just about stopping substance use, it's about taking responsibility and working on our growth and healing. Joey discusses the things that he tried after his accountability process, which included therapy, self-education, and exploration of abolitionist frameworks through his zine writing. He emphasizes the importance of being met with love instead of shame, and how that created fertile soil for him to grow. We also talk about the importance of community in addiction recovery, and how our connections to each other foster an environment of collective healing. Joey's Accountability Reading List: Books on Radical Compassion: I Hope We Choose Love by Kai Cheng Thom How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind by Lamar Bruce Communism of Love by Richard Gilman-Opalsky Joyful Militancy by Carla Birgman & Nick Montgomery Books on Substances and Harm: This Naked Mind by Annie Grace Towards a Less Fucked Up World by Nick Riotfag Books on Accountability Processes: Creative Interventions Toolkit by Incite! Toward Transformative Justice by Generation Five How to Be Accountable by Joe Beil & Faith Harper After Accountability by The Pinko Collective Conflict is Not Abuse by Sara Schulman Books on Abolition: Becoming Abolitionists We Will Not Cancel Us by Adrienne Maree Brown Resources for Supporting People Who Have Caused Harm: As if They Were Human: A Different Take on Perpetrator Accountability (zine) What About the Rapists? (zine) Supporting Harm Doers & Building Accountable Communities (Video Series by Banard Center for Resesarch on Women) Study showing 75% of people recover! Sexual assault hotline: 1-800-656-4673 https://rainn.org/help-and-healing/hotline/ Joey's zine distro! Click here to join our Patreon! Click here to donate via our Donorbox! Connect with us on Instagram & Substack @recoverydemystified Holler at me in the email! [email protected] Logo: Stevie Petet Theme music: Logan Bragg