David Lewry
331 episodes listed below
Recovery stories with protest in their bones.
Voices In Recovery Podcast is a long-form conversation show where personal recovery stories sit beside political witness and community organizing. Its episodes move from addiction, trauma, and self-image into Palestine solidarity, Indigenous rights, queer safety, and distrust of systems that protect power.
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Voices In Recovery Podcast is a recovery show with its feet in the street. It treats recovery as lived experience rather than a clean inspirational arc, and its conversations often begin with one person’s story before widening into systems, power, and community responsibility. The format is loose and interview-driven. Guests are given room to talk, double back, get angry, laugh, correct themselves, and land the point in their own time. Recent episodes move through addiction, 12-step culture, religious harm, domestic violence, sexualized trauma, self-image, queer safety, and the long afterlife of institutional control. The show is especially interested in what happens when recovery spaces reproduce the same harms they claim to heal. It asks why victims are isolated, why abusers can perform virtue in public, and why people are told they cannot survive outside certain rooms or belief systems. That skepticism extends into politics. Episodes connect protest work with Palestine solidarity, Indigenous rights, MMIWG2S remembrance, orange shirt gatherings, water protectors, Sudan, Congo, and the everyday pressure of showing up when the media does not. The language is plain. The stakes are not. The show can be funny in a rough, familiar way, especially when the speakers are teasing one another or letting a conversation wander before the serious part arrives. Then it can turn heavy fast. Land acknowledgements, charity notes, community plugs, and references to groups like Stop the Stack, Walls Down, The Native Calgarian Podcast, and Black Pride YYC place the series in a specific activist and recovery ecosystem. It does not sound detached. It sounds like people trying to tell the truth while still in the middle of it. The best fit is someone open to recovery stories that include anger, politics, queer experience, colonial history, and direct criticism of institutions. It is not tidy wellness content. It is testimony, argument, grief, humor, and mutual recognition in the same room.
Made for: For people drawn to candid recovery conversations that make room for trauma, politics, queer experience, and activism. Best suited to listeners comfortable with emotionally heavy material and blunt moral argument.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by treating recovery, protest, and institutional harm as connected subjects rather than separate lanes. Its strength is the unpolished intimacy of guests thinking aloud through what survival has actually cost.
Stories from survivors and warriors living in the world of recovery. We can and do recover in many different ways and these stories are from incredible humans living their second, third, hundredth lives. Tune in for a laugh, a cry, and some information you may not have had yesterday.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Personal testimony meets a searching critique of recovery culture, with close attention to identity, safety, institutional power, and regained agency.
Voices In Recovery Podcast treats recovery as a conversation shaped by identity, community, and the institutions people encounter along the way.
This is where recovery leaves the meeting room and joins you on the protest line.
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A blunt, personal look at protest, witness, and who gets heard.
The conversation is protest-first and friend-first. Dave and Doug banter easily, and that ease gives the episode its shape. They trace how they met at protests, then move through October 7, 2023, rallies, witness, media silence, police pressure, and the uneven treatment of…
A blunt, politically charged conversation that circles its point until it lands.
Voices in Recovery keeps the tone direct and confrontational, and that works because it turns a political argument into something personal. The conversation leans on a heated exchange about what resistance looks like when tanks are in the street, then draws a line between West…
A blunt, survivor centered episode that pushes hard against how abuse gets minimized and doubted.
This Voices in Recovery episode is blunt and plainspoken. It stays with childhood abuse, sexualized trauma, and the isolation that can follow when people are doubted and institutions protect the abuser.
A recovery story that links queer survival, 12-step experience, and a wider critique of control.
Gary's Story follows a recovery conversation that moves from queer identity and the risk of being outed into 12-step rooms and church space. The strongest thread is control, especially in places meant to help, and the account of feeling relief after stepping away from those…
A grounded conversation about solidarity, with a quiet but clear community focus.
Voices In Recovery follows the annual Valentine's Day march and keeps its focus on solidarity, especially the plain question of what it would mean to put other people first.
Dave opens with a joke about how long it took to get Doug on the show and how much they crack each other up.
This episode starts from a hard conversation about difference.
The episode centers on abuse, disbelief, and the damage that follows when people and systems back the wrong person.
Gary sits down for a recovery conversation shaped by queer identity and the fear of being outed.
It opens with the show's warning, donation note, and land acknowledgment.
A podcast sharing personal stories of recovery from addiction and trauma, hosted by Freedoms Path Recovery Society.
A podcast sharing personal stories of recovery from addiction and trauma, hosted by a recovery society.
A podcast sharing personal stories of recovery from addiction and trauma, hosted by Freedoms Path Recovery Society.
A podcast sharing personal stories of recovery from addiction and trauma, hosted by Freedoms Path Recovery Society.
Two hosts discuss their experiences with mental health medication and ADHD diagnosis after decades of struggle.
Host Carla interviews Riley about their experiences in recovery and the LGBTQ+ community, sharing personal stories and mutual admiration.
A podcast sharing personal stories of recovery from addiction and trauma, hosted by a recovery society.
A podcast sharing personal stories of recovery from addiction and trauma, hosted by Freedoms Path Recovery Society.
This episode of the Voices in Recovery podcast introduces a discussion on protest art and related difficult topics like trauma and recovery, though the substantive content is not yet clear from the transcript.
A podcast sharing personal stories of recovery from addiction and trauma, hosted by Freedoms Path Recovery Society.
A podcast sharing personal stories of recovery from addiction and trauma, hosted by Freedoms Path Recovery Society.
This episode features a personal conversation about recovery from trauma and addiction, where the host shares raw emotions and experiences in a therapeutic setting.
A podcast sharing personal stories of recovery from addiction and trauma, hosted by a recovery society.
An interview with Sonny and his husband Wes about the gay Druze community in Calgary and their recovery journey.
An interview with a returning guest discussing ongoing trauma and genocide, set within a recovery-focused podcast.
This episode features an interview with Lia (Le'Rihanna Story Gamble) discussing her personal recovery journey, including topics like childhood abuse, drug and alcohol use, and identity.
This episode features a conversation about empathy and recovery, with personal anecdotes and a focus on healing from addiction and trauma.
This episode features an interview with Nick Gutzwimmer, an Indigenous activist from Alberta, discussing his journey from being a youth in care to becoming involved in advocacy and recovery.
This episode features Jasmine sharing her personal recovery journey from trauma and addiction while balancing motherhood and volunteering.
A podcast sharing personal stories of recovery from addiction and trauma, hosted by Freedoms Path Recovery Society.
A podcast sharing personal stories of recovery from addiction and trauma, hosted by Freedoms Path Recovery Society.
A podcast sharing personal stories of recovery from addiction and trauma, hosted by a recovery society.
A podcast sharing personal stories of recovery from addiction and trauma, hosted by Freedoms Path Recovery Society.
A podcast sharing personal stories of recovery from addiction and trauma, hosted by a recovery society.