E133: Grief, Recovery and Family: Steve C. Opens up About his Brother’s Passing and The Recovery Tools That Got Him Through It

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

🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Send us a text In this episode, Matt and Steve C. have a heartfelt and honest conversation about addiction and family. Steve shares his story of losing his brother to a heart attack after years of alcoholism and drug use, and how he stayed sober through the grief and loss. He also talks about his own journey of recovery, how he distanced himself from his family to protect his sobriety, how he reconnected with his brother in the last years of his life, and how Steve distanced himself from fami...

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0:00.0	I'm Matt.
0:00.9	Hey, I'm Steve.
0:01.9	Hey, I'm John.
0:03.1	This is the Sober Friends podcast.
0:05.8	We're here for The Sober Curious, the new guy, and the old timer.
0:10.3	We're here to talk about the stuff anyone looking to live, alcohol-free has-to-face day-to-day.
0:15.5	Now we overcame those struggles.
0:17.3	We speak for no 12-step group, but we do try to remain anonymous.
0:23.0	You're not alone. This is the sober friends podcast. When we put the booze down, it doesn't mean that life stops happening.
0:29.8	Good things happen in our life, bad things happen in our life. The difference is when we find
0:34.8	recovery, we have the skills to get through that bad stuff without taking a drink.
0:41.4	And we're going to sort of talk about that tonight because Steve lost a family member recently.
0:47.6	And he has shared in a meeting something that hit home for me.
0:52.0	And I hope it hits home for you as well. Steve, what's going on?
0:57.4	Hey, Matt, good to be back. We haven't done this for a couple weeks now, so like you said,
1:01.7	it feels like you take a week off. It feels like forever. Yes, it does. And it is a long time.
1:08.0	It's like two weeks by the time you get back to it. So it's a long time.
1:17.9	But yeah, I like to dedicate this podcast to my brother Rich, Rich C, who was one of us. He struggled with his own addictions, alcoholism. He was also, you know, a drug user. So I lost him on June 2nd of a heart attack. So yeah, there's a lot to it. It's a tough thing.
1:35.4	It was a complicated relationship with my brother and I, as many family relationships are.
1:41.1	Sober or not sober. Right, absolutely. It can be complicated. You know, I was listening to
1:45.9	another podcast, so I actually listened to an interview, Kristen Bell, right? We both love
1:52.7	Kristen Bell. What's not to like, Steve? Listen, you don't have to tell me. And her husband,
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