E142: Unmasking Happiness: Navigating Self-Doubt, Sobriety, and the Journey Within

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

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Send us a text 🎙️ Get ready for an emotionally charged episode that explores the depths of self-doubt, comparison, and the pursuit of happiness. In this episode, Matt and Steve share their personal struggles with sobriety, self-image, and the relentless quest for perfection. In this candid conversation, Matt and Steve reflect on those moments when they felt like an outsider looking in, questioning why others seem to have it all together while they grapples with their own insecurities. I...

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0:00.0	I'm Matt.
0:01.0	Hey, I'm Steve.
0:01.9	Hey, I'm John.
0:03.2	This is the Sober Friends podcast.
0:05.8	We're here for The Sober Curious, the new guy, and the old timer.
0:10.4	We're here to talk about the stuff anyone looking to live, alcohol-free has-to-face day-to-day.
0:15.6	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	Yeah, emphasis on the old-timer.
0:27.6	Speaking of that, Steve, how you doing?
0:29.6	Hey, I'm good, Matt. Just what got off, had a great day today.
0:34.6	I took, Winnie and I went out for a midweekweek hike down at a place in East Hampton, Connecticut,
0:41.5	here in the East Coast.
0:42.9	And it was a beautiful day that the forecast we were saying that today might be one of the top 10 days of the year.
0:49.5	We get out there and this is a place I'd never been.
0:52.6	And it was absolutely just, just knocked my socks off.
0:55.5	It was just so nice about seven miles.
0:58.0	So really, really nice.
0:59.5	And then we went to Harries for a burger and some French fries and a vanilla milkshake and, man,
1:03.8	that life is good.
1:04.8	My father, I took my father-in-law there to Harries in Colchester.
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