E140: What's Great About Getting Sober?

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

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Send us a text This podcast episode is about the difficulty of getting sober and the great things that come with it. The first few days and weeks of sobriety can be very tough, but it’s worth it. One of the great things about sobriety is that you can end up with a best friend who is so different than you because the one thing that you have in common is that sobriety, peace. And that being the only thing and there’s like a whole bunch of other things. The episode also talks about how to get th...

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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.
0:21.6	You're not alone. This is the Sober Friends podcast.
0:24.6	It is so hard to get sober.
0:26.6	And there's those first few moments and days and weeks when you get sober are painful.
0:34.6	At least they were for me, Steve.
0:36.6	Sometimes we talk about this stuff so much, we forget,
0:41.3	why do we keep doing this? There must be something great about being sober that you might not realize.
0:48.3	Back in the day, I used to watch IMIS on MSNBC because I guess I'm older than I thought I was,
0:53.8	and I was fascinated more about
0:55.7	radio shows on TV to see how a radio show actually worked. And he talked about being sober.
1:01.8	And I just thought if you're sober, it's sort of like you can hold your breath longer than
1:05.3	somebody else or you cross your legs in a certain way like if if you got to go pee-pee.
1:11.6	But it's not.
1:12.8	Things are really good.
1:14.6	And I thought about this because on Monday night, there are these two guys who come to our meeting who come to our meeting because they're meeting closed down, Gordon and Mike.
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