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Recovery Dialogues and Sober Stories

Recovery Dialogues and Sober Stories

Written by: Antonio Matta
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 Recovery Dialogues & Sober Stories (RDSS) is a mental health and addiction recovery podcast hosted by Antonio Matta that explores recovery as more than symptom management—it’s a self-directed process of reaching your potential through deliberate life changes. Each episode connects lived experience and clinical insight while confronting cultural and systemic forces shaping who gets well and why. RDSS is where compassion meets clarity and conversations challenge assumptions, surface overlooked truths, and build momentum to stay.Antonio Matta Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
Episodes
  • Building an Addiction Treatment System That Works (with Dr. Suzette Glasner)

    Building an Addiction Treatment System That Works (with Dr. Suzette Glasner)
    Oct 10 2025
    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 with Beverly Vance Aikins (Vice President JD Vance’s mother), she lays out urgent, evidence-based steps to make treatment accessible, humane, and effective.
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    44 mins
  • Rewiring Recovery - Tools, Truth, and Hope

    Rewiring Recovery - Tools, Truth, and Hope
    Sep 20 2025
    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 neuroplasticity tools (Timer, Tactile, Breath, Words, Walk) you can use today. Skeptical? This blend of lived experience and evidence offers a kinder map, immediate felt wins, and proof that recovery is emphatically—and undeniably—possible.
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    15 mins
  • How Does EMDR Work?

    How Does EMDR Work?
    Sep 7 2025
    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 Victoria De Paula’s (www.victoriadepaula.com) insights to separate myths from evidence. No prescriptions here, just clear, research-backed guidance so you can decide whether EMDR is worth considering.
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    13 mins
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