the recovery music playlist I still use every week in the former SROL meeting.

Every week I facilitate a 4:30pm ET SMART Recovery meeting that used to be a part of SMART Recovery Online. At 4pm ET we play some music that you’ve probably heard before but didn’t know it was written about recovery. Artists like Ed Sheeran, Kelly Clarkson, Linkin Park, Macklemore, Disturbed, Sia. At 4:30pm ET we get into the meeting proper. At 6pm we usually finish with another song or too.

Every week people ask me for the playlist.

Here it is. This is the playlist that, with the help of the peeps in that meeting, we’ve created. There are a small handful of songs like Beautiful and Never Break that aren’t written specifically about recovery but I think they get the message across anyway.

So if you want to listen to music that inspires us in recovery. Music “mostly” by people who know what it’s like to fight the battles that WE fight, check it the YouTube playlist.

The Meeting Slide deck:

This is where you can read the guidelines for the meeting and find all the links we share in the meeting.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRZ-pcLTTw4OCGhX-nKR0LwBLUGainfaHUzUbEwgqax6GBxxV6nbtaHIUNkxT7i35pNN4NE5jbuP8Oy/pub

If you have music to add to this playlist

We’re thinking about creating a form to suggest music for this list, until then we use our Discord community. If you are not a member of that community yet, the invite button is on the one on the left. You’ll have to sign in before using the button on the right. If you are already a member, just click the button on the right and it will bring you to that thread.

There are a bunch of criteria I have to put music on here:

1. About recovery specifically

2. Can’t be a downer

3. Popular style music

4. I have to like it!

5. Make it easier for me, it’s hard to go through them. So in addition to the YouTube video, please send some links confirming that the song was actually written about recovery.

See you on wednesdays!