E119: Asking For Help

Sober Friends

Matt J

Alcohol Free, Alcoholics Anonymous, Recovery, Dry January, Spirituality, Sober, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Sobriety, Sober Curious, Addiction, Religion & Spirituality, 12 Steps

4.2 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Send us a text It feels like we are weak when we ask for help but it's the opposite. When you ask someone else for help, it's a sign of strength. In sobriety, it's so important to have a network of people you can lean on. That phone you have to call out on? 10,000 points and 8 foot buttons. We talk through on this podcast about how asking for help is so important in sobriety and how when you ask for help, you are making someone else feel better. How ...

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0:00.0	Today's Sober Friends podcast is brought to you by Rachel, who bought us three coffees at buymea coffee.com slash sober friends pod.
0:08.2	It's important for Rachel to keep the show on the air, to get this into the new guy or gal's ear.
0:15.6	And if you find value in this show, please be like Rachel.
0:19.6	Consider giving a donation at buy mea coffee.com
0:23.3	slash sober friends pod. I'm Matt. Hey, I'm Steve. Hey, I'm John. This is the sober friends podcast.
0:31.5	We're here for the sober curious, the new guy, and the old timer. Here to talk about the stuff
0:37.3	anyone looking to live,
0:38.6	alcohol-free has to face day to day,
0:41.2	now we overcame those struggles.
0:42.9	We speak for no 12-step group,
0:44.9	but we do try to remain anonymous.
0:46.8	You're not alone.
0:47.9	This is the Sober Friends podcast.
0:50.7	When you first come into recovery,
0:55.6	Steve, you've got to ask for help.
1:00.3	And the reason that it's important to ask for help is if you could do this by yourself,
1:02.4	you would have found a way to put the bottle down.
1:07.3	I couldn't do it unless I let somebody else help me.
1:13.9	What's your thoughts on asking for help and achieving sobriety? Hey, Matt, yeah, it's always good to be with you. And before we get into the meat and potatoes of this, this podcast, I just want to say,
1:19.5	we're recording this on an anniversary of yours, and they just want to say, congratulations.
1:25.1	Oh, thank you. Give you a shot out. Nine years.
1:28.4	Nine years today.
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