E188: What We Can't Control

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

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Send us a text I struggle with what I can't control. If things are not going my way and I have no control over it, it can cause me great stress. That's when I think of the serenity prayer and try to learn from it's wisdom. In this episode, we discuss those things we think we'd control much better and learn when to let go. Support the show 📫 Get more honest conversations about sobriety delivered to your inbox! Subscribe to The Sober Friends Dispatch, our weekly newsletter whe...

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0:00.0	I'm Matt.
0:01.0	Hey, I'm Steve.
0:02.0	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.
0:22.6	You're not alone. This is the sober friends podcast. Steve, you and I have, or come from a tradition where we think about
0:29.5	what we can control, what we can't control. Many AA meetings start with the serenity prayer or end
0:36.9	with a serenity prayer. And there's a lot of times that I just want to take the serenity prayer or end with the serenity prayer and there's a lot of times
0:39.4	that i just want to take that serenity prayer and shove it up someone's ass because i would much prefer
0:45.5	trying to control or wring my hands over the things that i can't but that's not possible
0:52.6	and that serenity prayer comes in so helpful sometimes so we're going to
0:58.7	talk about all of those things of the things I don't like that I can't change and how I get through
1:05.8	it and the serenity prayer kind of leads that off. That's the wisdom today.
1:13.0	Good morning, Matt.
1:14.9	Good morning.
1:21.3	Yeah, the serenity prayer, first of all, the serenity prayer is, it's a prayer that was co-opted by AA, right?
1:22.3	I mean, it's not original to AA.
1:24.1	No, it's not an AA prayer.
1:25.2	Right.
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