Rick Hubbard Part 1: From Addiction to Recovery, Faith, and a Life of Service

Tell us a little bit about your story now, where you are.

You got remarried in the middle of working at Serenity House and moving to Florida.

You got married.

So many things have transpired in your life where you see God as very evident.

And so we want to hear a little bit more of today's story and what the recovery looks like in your story today and in your faith today and share with all of our listeners.

In 2006, On April 8th, 2006, I got remarried.

And Sylvia and I moved.

I had already moved back to Texas.

We had planned a wedding in Florida.

So I went back to Florida.

We got married.

And then she followed me back to Texas a year later.

Her youngest son was still in high school.

And so... we embarked upon this new journey pretty early in my recovery.

At the time that we got married, I had been sober for five years.

And I was still trying to figure out where my professional life was going to take me.

But I was convinced that i couldn't control that that i had to

you know

trust the process that was already in in in in the works for me and so there were times when i was a bit frustrated with my with my uh professional life uh because of the toll that it takes on your on your time and and your relationships you know uh when somebody's calling you at nine to ten eleven o'clock at night or somebody calls you on the easter sunday yeah and you're And

we'll talk more about that later.

so um you know the the process i trusted and and i was convinced that i needed to um immerse myself into every aspect of the work and learn as much as i could um i started um studying the dynamics of um complicated family systems uh through some of the work that i had done at serenity house That work resembled structured intervention, but I didn't have any training in that.

So I started getting trained in various models of intervention, Johnson model of intervention, Arise model of intervention.

I studied Love First and the...

One of my addiction studies classes actually used the book Love First as a textbook.

And so I became enamored with, you know, studying complex family systems and understanding that really that is a huge part of an individual's recovery journey is having the family as well.