The Big Delusion

06/18/2026

Today, Secretary Kennedy announced more than $700 million in new funding opportunities to advance President Trump’s Great American Recovery Initiative. This includes the new $96 million STREETS Initiative, which will help communities connect individuals experiencing homelessness, addiction, and serious mental illness to treatment, recovery, and long-term support.

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https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/secretary-kennedy-announces-new-funding-mental-illness-addiction-homelessness.html

06/18/2026

06/17/2026

Not everyone experiences alcohol the same way.

For some people, alcohol is relaxing.

For others, it can feel like flipping on a light switch.

Understanding that difference may explain why some people spend years wondering:

“Why can’t I stop?”

The problem isn’t always willpower.

Sometimes the problem starts with the way alcohol affects the brain and body.

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06/11/2026

Neal McDonough has appeared in some of Hollywood’s biggest productions — Band of Brothers, Justified, Yellowstone — but there was a stretch of years when the industry wanted nothing to do with him.

It started when McDonough, now 60, was fired from an ABC series after refusing to kiss his female co-star on screen. His reason was simple: those lips were for one woman — his wife, Ruvé. Hollywood labeled him a “religious nut bag.” Work dried up. The pain of professional rejection quietly turned into a drinking problem that lasted four years and cost him nearly everything.

“I lost the house, lost the cars, lost everything,” he told Fox News Digital. “I failed Ruvé, my five kids. And that crucifixion caused me so much inner pain because I made it all about me.”

Then his wife gave him a choice that changed his life. She grabbed him and said simply: “It’s us or the bottle. You choose.” He never looked back.

McDonough credits both his faith and Ruvé — his wife of over 25 years and now his producing partner — with saving his life and reshaping his entire purpose. “God gave me the most amazing woman I’ve ever met,” he said. Today the two produce films together, including the upcoming Jimmy Stewart biopic Jimmy, releasing November 2026.

A man who refused to compromise his marriage vows lost everything and then found everything — because of exactly what he refused to give up.

Proverbs 18:22 says, “He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.”

The right person calling you back from the edge is one of God’s most underrated miracles.

Do you believe a godly spouse can be the difference between a man’s destruction and his redemption?

06/11/2026

THIS DAY IN RECOVERY HISTORY – June 11

On June 11, 1945, approximately 2,500 people gathered in Cleveland, Ohio, to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Alcoholics Anonymous. What began with two alcoholics helping each other had become a growing recovery movement.

Why It Matters

At a time when many believed alcoholism was hopeless, thousands of people were proving that recovery was possible. Their success helped inspire generations of recovery communities, treatment programs, and peer-support models.

The Big Delusion Connection

Addiction says, “Nobody understands me.”

Recovery proves otherwise.

Healing often begins when one person shares hope with another.

Recovery Reflection

You are not alone. Every recovery story adds another chapter to a history built on courage, connection, and hope.

06/11/2026

Boom 💥

06/10/2026

THIS DAY IN RECOVERY HISTORY
June 10

What Happened

On June 10, 1935, one of the most significant relationships in recovery history was beginning to take shape. During the weeks surrounding this period, Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith were developing the partnership that would become one of the most influential recovery collaborations of the twentieth century. Their shared experience demonstrated a revolutionary idea: one person recovering from alcoholism could help another achieve sobriety.

What began as a conversation between two struggling alcoholics would eventually inspire peer-support models used throughout the recovery world today.

Why It Matters

Before modern addiction science, medication-assisted treatment, licensed counseling, and peer recovery coaching, many people believed alcoholism and addiction were simply failures of character.

The recovery movement helped change that narrative.

The idea that people could recover by sharing experience, strength, hope, accountability, and mutual support became a foundation not only for fellowship-based recovery but also for modern peer-support services, recovery coaching, and many treatment models used today.

Recovery Reflection

Recovery rarely happens in isolation.

Research continues to show that connection is one of the strongest predictors of long-term recovery success. Whether that connection comes through treatment, faith, family, recovery meetings, counseling, peer support, or healthy friendships, healing often begins when we stop carrying our struggles alone.

Action for Today

Reach out to one person in recovery today.

Offer encouragement.
Share your story.
Listen without judgment.

You never know how one conversation may change a life.

Recovery Quote

“Recovery grows when hope is shared.”

06/05/2026