Jonathan Marsh is the founder of Recovery Nation and served as it's primary recovery coach until his death. He has authored each of the site's workshops and had written extensively on addiction and recovery over the last ten years of his life. Jon had facilitated Health-Based Recovery workshops internationally and throughout the United States. He has presented at the 2006 International Conference on Marriage and Family and gave numerous media interviews on the subject of sexual addiction. Jon's breakthrough work, He Danced Alone--provides a raw and harrowing look into the heart and mind of a sex/love addict. This book is offered free on this site as an educational tool for select audiences.

A married father of four, Jon experienced a twenty-year sex and love addiction before making the transition to a healthy life nearly eighteen years before he died. In the years from this transition, he had openly shared his experiences with the sex and love addictions, as well as his health-based path through recovery. He has facilitated more than seventy-five clinical workshops in addiction assessment and treatment throughout the United States and has coached over five thousand online workshop participants.

Having lived with his family in Omaha, Nebraska, Jon worked in such renowned clinical/behavioral treatment and personal development settings as the Menninger Clinic, the Salvation Army and Boys Town. He held various positions working hands-on with the chronic mentally ill and the homeless. From 1997 to 2005, he held the position of Director of Health Education & Training with an addiction assessment firm committed to improving the efficacy of mental health/addiction treatment and clinical services through technology. In the summer of 2006, he resigned his position coordinating a five-year, federally-funded addiction treatment project that involved teaching a philosophical shift from the historically ineffective medical-based addiction treatment model to a culturally-oriented/value-based treatment model for indigenous communities across the United States to focus exclusively on developing Recovery Nation into the premiere resource for those seeking a permanent end to their addiction.

Jon died on May 2, 2009, a great loss to his family, RN and all the past, present and future participants of his workshops. Jon had a vision to apply Health Based Recovery(HBR) to all aspects of addictions, gambling, drinking, drugs etc. He also envisioned a separate place where people of faith would be able to pursue HBR in the context of their beliefs with others of the same faith. One such site was already in the works when Jon died and will be completed by the people that were helping Jon create and launch the site. He also had some other projects going that we at RN hope to complete for him and put into action. We will forever be grateful to the work Jon did to bring Health Based Recovery within everyone's reach and for all the personal sacrifices he made to help other's.

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