STICK WITH THE WINNERS! –
April 7, 2026 – Burk Jackson is a New Mexico-based photographer, writer, life coach, and entrepreneur with over 30 years of sobriety. A passionate advocate for connection in recovery, he is the founder of RecoveryBridge, an app helping people find support and community. He believes deeply that we do not recover in isolation.
Q. If you are in recovery, what was your drug(s) of choice and when is your sobriety date?
A. I am in recovery, and my sobriety date is October 20, 1994. My only real drug of choice, looking back, was “More”; it didn’t really matter what it was as long as I could get more of it. It’s also played out in my recovery and all the distractions that I’ve had in my life — whatever I could find to anesthetize myself with at different points in my life — sex, money, clothes, shoes, cars, boats, watches, anything to distract me. It’s been a painful lesson to learn that none of those things will fix me, but also the best lesson I could have gotten.
Having grown up in recovery since I was 23, I’ve made lots of mistakes and had plenty of lessons in my time, and most of them have taught me something valuable, in retrospect at least.
Q. Is there anything special in your sobriety toolkit that helps keep you sober?
A. I would say that connection is the single biggest piece of recovery that has kept me sober all these years. Whether it’s going to a meeting, talking to my sponsor, or connecting with friends, all the most valuable work I’ve done has sprung out of my connection to people and my higher power. I truly believe that we do not recover in isolation.
