Sober Pod - Recovery Podcast

Sober Pod - Recovery Podcast


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366 Book - March 28
March 28, 2024

March 28 There were days when I would drink for hours and just let the day take me. Wasting so much time and feeling so sick. Did you ever do that? Or maybe you were wiggin’ out while you did a few lines and peeked at the “shadow people” in the trees thr

366 Book - March 27
March 27, 2024

March 27You are not that essential. No, really. Look around you. There are a lot of people in this world. Your ego loves putting yourself at the center of the Universe for your own protection and wants to make you feel necessary and so fucking important

366 Book - March 26
March 26, 2024

March 26Oh! Shit! That pink cloud! Remember that shit? It was like the world went from black and white to color overnight. The grass was greener, the sky bluer, and we suddenly felt the Universe get bigger as we got smaller. Finally! We felt our place i

366 Book - March 25
March 25, 2024

March 25Nothing will go as you planned, I promise you. The best-laid plans will have errors, miscalculations, faults, and follies. Something will happen where you have to change course and adjust. I heard a saying by Jimmy Dean early in recovery: "

366 Book - March 24
March 24, 2024

March 24When we drank/used, some of us vaguely understood a Higher Power. We viewed God as something/someone we only reached out to when things got tough. In jail, we hit our knees and begged to get out of this one and promised that we would never do th

Who Are You Now?
March 23, 2024

BUY THE BOOK! SummaryIn this conversation, Carl and Chelsea discuss the concept of identity and the fear of change in recovery. They explore the idea of holding onto old identities and personas, and the need to let go of them in order to grow and chang

366 Book - March 23
March 23, 2024

March 23What you are doing requires discipline and fortitude. To wake up every day and decide to not take the easier and softer way will not be directly rewarding. There is no instant gratification in the discipline you are displaying. Fucking sucks, hu

366 Book - March 22
March 22, 2024

March 22How much do we identify with who we think we are that we let it dictate our choices and behaviors? We are often so afraid in recovery of the person we might become that we rarely think about what happens if we stay the same? We hold onto these o

366 Book - March 21
March 21, 2024

March 21Recovering alcoholics and addicts are the most courageous people I have ever met. Why? Because it takes tremendous courage to reach out for help. To walk into a room of strangers and talk about what is going on with you. The kind of outer courag

366 Book - March 20
March 20, 2024

March 20There is a moment when you wake up after having had a drinking/using dream that is really important to pay attention to: that moment when you are startled awake and either feel terrible that you had picked up in your dream or you are so fucking