E224- When You Can't Change Others- Acceptance as a Pathway to Peace in Sobriety

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

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Send us a text In this powerful episode, we dive deep into one of recovery's most challenging yet transformative principles: acceptance. Why is it so difficult to accept people and situations as they are? From navigating frustrating family dinners to confronting career disappointments, we explore how our inability to accept "life on life's terms" often leads us back to destructive behaviors. Learn practical strategies for finding peace amid circumstances you can't control, managing expectatio...

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0:00.0	these are some of the reasons why we drank right i mean we couldn't accept life on life terms
0:06.9	is one of those big topics that you hear in and meetings and stuff like that yeah it's it's crucial
0:13.1	it's crucial to as crucial to me today as it's of rebecca right it's accepting things around me. And again, it's, you know,
0:22.9	it's a little bit of the serenity prayer, things I don't have control over. So it's really about that,
0:27.8	you know, how do I do that? How do I have peace of mind? Yeah, it's that daily struggle.
0:32.2	You'll hear this after I've gone to Easter dinner. I haven't gone yet. This is a way of accepting that there will be
0:39.2	I complain about the way the people behave there and they behave the same way all the time.
0:44.7	And I'm not accepting that they're not going to change. I'm Matt. Hey, I'm Steve. Hey, I'm John.
0:52.1	This is the sober friends podcast. We're here for The Sober Curious, the new guy, and the old timer.
0:59.0	We're here to talk about the stuff anyone looking to live, alcohol-free has to face day-to-day, and how we overcame those struggles.
1:06.0	We speak for no 12-step group, but we do try to remain anonymous.
1:10.0	You're not alone.
1:11.4	This is the sober friends podcast.
1:14.2	Oh, acceptance is one of those great behaviors that we learn in the 12-step group.
1:21.8	Always worth looking into of the things that we need to accept to move forward. Steve, what's going on?
1:31.7	Good morning, Matt.
1:33.3	Good morning.
1:35.6	For those out there, we are recording this on Easter Sunday. So happy Easter when you hear this.
1:42.2	It'll be a couple days afterwards.
1:45.2	But, yeah, acceptance is huge, right?
1:47.6	It's still something, right?
1:48.7	First of all, it's not unique to AA recovery, right?
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