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There is healing in the story of our scars when we daily practice step 12.
Here at Unashamed Recovery we are breaking the shame & stigma of addiction & recovery
by having real conversations with real people in real recovery. With every episode we proclaim it's okay to not be okay.
Welcome to Unashamed Recovery Podcast, a Step 12 Christian Recovery Podcast that is for everyone with a hurt, habit, compulsion or addiction.
If you're looking for a fresh view on recovery from a biblical standpoint, we have just what your looking for.
This show is for the recovery community, built by the recovery community.
Find us and other great recovery podcasts over at the
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Stay Sober & Stay Unashamed.
Love y’all.
May 29, 2023
S4 Ep 041 - Through the Veil: Unmasking Blind Spots on the Recovery Journey Have you ever found yourself needing to change lanes on a 4 lane highway and you look around and check your mirrors and you don't see another vehicl…
May 28, 2023
New this Season on Unashamed Recovery is the Recovery Minute, a weekly encouragement to help keep you sober. This week our Recovery Minute is all about how we can Give & Take. Recovery is a constant balance of taking and giv…
May 7, 2023
New this Season on Unashamed Recovery is the Recovery Minute, a weekly encouragement to help keep you sober. This week our Recovery Minute is how Piece of Cake. Gratitude is not always the piece of cake that we would like fo…
May 1, 2023
S4 Ep 040 - breaking the bad : It is so easy for us to continue acting like an addict even after we get into recovery. Often times we are still carrying around the baggage of bad behaviors that we picked up in our addiction.…
April 30, 2023
New this Season on Unashamed Recovery is the Recovery Minute, a weekly encouragement to help keep you sober. This week our Recovery Minute is how Faith equals Freedom. Serenity comes when we are inside God's will. But how ca…
April 23, 2023
New this Season on Unashamed Recovery is the Recovery Minute, a weekly encouragement to help keep you sober. This week our Recovery Minute is about the Impossibility of Serenity. Serenity goes hand and hand with the recovery…
April 17, 2023
S4 Ep 039 - stay the course : The recovery process isn’t always a mountain top experience. The excitement and the new recovery smell will soon fade. It’s then that we will open ourselves up to burnout and fatigue. It’s then …
April 16, 2023
New this Season on Unashamed Recovery is the Recovery Minute, a weekly encouragement to help keep you sober. This week our Recovery Minute is Perseverance for Success. When the stress and obstacles of recovery rise up agains…
April 9, 2023
New this Season on Unashamed Recovery is the Recovery Minute, a weekly encouragement to help keep you sober. This week our Recovery Minute is on Eating Scripture. To keep the theme going from our last episode, food is not my…
April 3, 2023
S4 EP 38 - food is not my comfort..Jesus is! : Recovery is not just to help alcoholics and substance abusers. The same principles and steps that we work in recovery can be applied to most everything we deal with in life. Mos…
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Where is Your Fruit? [Matthew 21:18-22] Jesus Curses a Fig Tree "18 Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry…
There was a nation wide poll taken of America's favorite superhero & guess what? The majority agreed that our favorite superhero is Superman. But ri…
is the lifestyle choice of sobriety a fit for you?
Co-Host of Unashamed Recovery
Drew Smith was added as co-host of the Unashamed Recovery Podcast at the beginning of Season 2 in November of 2020. Drew has his hands in the local recovery community and is involved in
working with various groups to help teens overcome early traumas. One of the ways Drew does this is through the teen ministry arm of Celebrate Recovery
known as The Landing. The other way is being involved as a coach with several different local youth sports leagues in Lauderdale County.
In 2020, Drew founded Something Eccentric Life Coaching, and began meeting the needs
and engaging with broken people on a whole new level. Drew also travels the state of Mississippi spreading the message of hope in recovery
by sharing his testimony at local recovery meetings.
Drew is married to his wife Kristen and live in Meridian, Ms where they share a blended house with six kids.
Host of Unashamed Recovery
Josh Hollingshead is the creator and founder of Unashamed Recovery Podcast. Josh started his journey in recovery from a 20 year porn addiction in 2014. It wasn't until late in 2015, and after several failed attempts at sobriety, that Josh found Celebrate Recovery at NorthPark Church in Meridian, MS.
After a severe relapse in 2017, Josh returned to the Celebrate Recovery and hasn't looked back. In early 2019 God planted the first ideas for Unashamed Recovery. By October of 2019 the podcast was launched and the rest is history.
Josh and his wife AnnaBeth have been married for over 10 years and live in Meridian, MS with 3 daughters : Kinley, Sadie Grace, and Millie.
Along with the podcast, Josh is a 911 dispatcher, and has served as the Men's Ministry Leader for NorthPark Celebrate Recovery since 2019. In March of 2022 he was appointed as the Central Mississippi State Representative for Celebrate Recovery.
