Recovery Coach · Author · Speaker
Richard Darone
Recovery isn’t thirty days and a handshake. It’s twelve journeys that rebuild a life addiction has no place in.
A structured, individualized path that finishes what treatment starts — from uncovering the patterns that drive addiction to building a life of vision, abundance, and legacy.
From the inside out
Root-cause work
Built around you
Sobriety → purpose
12 Journeysof Recovery
The problem
You’ve done the work and the behavioral patterns still come back.
You have been to rehab. Maybe meetings. Maybe years of trying. The reason the behaviors return usually isn’t you — it’s the system that was never built to finish the job. Treatment runs thirty to maybe ninety days, a spin dry, and then you’re given a hug, sent home with your homework and maybe a book, with no structure for the months ahead that actually matter.
The shift
A different approach: From the Inside Out.
Instead of managing the behavior, The 12 Journeys of Recovery uncover and rewire what drives it — the default patterns running on autopilot — and then rebuild, journey by journey, a life the addiction has no place in. Not a philosophy to think about. A structured path to walk.
Why it’s different
Not another program. A path that finishes the job.
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Root cause, not symptoms
We uncover and rewire the patterns underneath the behavior — not just the behavior itself.
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Built around you
Built around you, not a philosophy. Your history, your triggers, your life — your journey is your own.
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Structure for the long haul
A clear path for the months after treatment ends — the months that actually decide the outcome.
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Sobriety to purpose
The goal isn’t only quitting. It’s building a life of vision, abundance, and legacy.
The journey
The 12 Journeys of Recovery. Three phases. Each building on the last.
Phase one uncovers the patterns and heals what lies beneath them. Phase two moves beyond survival into vision, well-being, abundance, and possibilities. Phase three turns it into lasting impact. Recovery is more than sobriety — it’s not about quitting a substance or a negative behavior, it’s about building a life that doesn’t need them.
Phase 01
The Root Journeys
Heal the foundation
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Non-Consciousness
See the autopilot patterns running beneath the surface.
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Awareness
Wake up to what is really driving the behavior.
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Grief & Emotions
Feel and move through what was buried.
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Acceptance
Make peace with the past so it loses its grip.
Phase 02
The Growth Journeys
Beyond survival
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Gratitude
Rebuild on what is still good and still here.
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Empowerment
Reclaim agency over your choices and your days.
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Uncertainty
Learn to stand steady when the ground shifts.
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Abundance
Open to more than survival — to enough, and beyond.
Phase 03
The Legacy Journeys
Lasting impact
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Vision
Picture the life worth staying sober for.
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Surrender
Let go of control over what was never yours to carry.
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Nurture
Tend the relationships and self-care that sustain you.
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Legacy
Turn your healing into impact for others.
AuthorThe 12 Journeys
Meet Richard
I built the program I wish I’d had.
I know this path because I have walked it. Recovery gave me my life back — and then it asked me to give something back in return. Everything I learned getting free, and everything I learned helping others get free, is built into these twelve journeys.
This isn’t theory borrowed from a textbook. It’s a structured, individualized path, shaped by years of training and lived experience, designed to finish what treatment starts and rebuild a life addiction has no place in.
- State-certified addiction counselor
- Certified in Cognitive Behavioral work
- Trauma therapy & emotion regulation
- Holistic & spiritual practice
- Author of The 12 Journeys of Recovery
The road
The calling
Into the work
Diving into my own personal development, I was called to become a state-certified addiction counselor. To further my skills, I became certified in Cognitive Behavioral work, Trauma Therapy, Emotion Regulation, and Holistic and Spiritual work.
The build
Building what was missing
Taking years to create a structured, individualized program that finishes what treatment starts and rebuilds a life addiction has no place in.
Coaching
Choose the path that fits where you are.
Private coaching
One on one, built around you
Deep, individualized work to uncover the root issues, manage emotions, and uncover your passion, purpose, and personal power across the mental, emotional, and family issues in your life. No fixed formula. Your journey is your own.
Start one on one →Group coaching
Growing along with others
Intimate, confidential virtual sessions, kept small on purpose. The focus stays on solutions, not just obstacles, with clear guidelines that protect everyone in the room. Subscription based — opt out at any time.
Join a group →Speaking
Bring the message to your room
Talks for treatment centers, organizations, and events — on recovery from the inside out, and on turning survival into purpose. Honest, lived, and built to move a room.
Book Richard →Courses
Continuing the work
A course is available through the SKOOL platform, including a workbook and modules to continue your journey, along with journaling to help with future issues that may arise — building a lifelong recovery lifestyle.
Explore the course →For centers & organizations
Bring The 12 Journeys to the people you serve.
Partner with Richard to bring a structured path — not just a thirty-day program — to your clients, members, or team.
Richard Darone — The 12 Journeys of Recovery
From the inside out.
Richard Darone International
Three phases. Twelve journeys.
Phase one uncovers the patterns and heals what lies beneath them.
Phase two moves beyond survival into vision, well-being, and abundance.
Phase three turns it into lasting impact.
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The 12 Journeys of Recovery
Richard Darone
The book
The book that started it all.
Get The 12 Journeys of Recovery — the framework of the entire program, from uncovering the patterns that drive addiction to building a life of vision and legacy. Available on Amazon.
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Why now
Life offers us lessons. So I’m giving everything I have to you.
Since 2020 I have worked through cancer three times. I lost a kidney, a part of my colon, and had open-heart surgery, and I still walk into a cancer center every month. I could have stepped back and called it a life well lived. I chose the opposite.
“This isn’t a career. It’s a calling, from a power greater than myself.”
Once a month I sit through treatment surrounded by people who believe their lives are over. Their lives are not over. So I bring bags of books — children’s stories for the kids in the waiting room, hope for the adults beside me. I am one of them. I refuse to live in a “victim” mentality, and I know there are always opportunities and possibilities. I offer hope as an example of what is possible.
The hard truth I carry is simple: to give back all that has been given to me. “Hope is the essential spark that lights the fire of change.” It’s why I’m going all in — to leave a path that carries people from an addictive lifestyle to abundance, vision, and legacy. I serve people because I see possibilities in them that they cannot yet see in themselves, and I’ve made it my mission to help them cross the bridge from survival to purpose.
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Your next chapter
The path is here. The first journey is yours to take.
Recovery is more than sobriety. Let’s build a life that doesn’t need the thing you’re leaving behind.
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