003: Your alcohol addiction is lurking nearby and it is getting stronger
Recovery Elevator
Paul
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2015
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Paul sums up his summer of 2014 and drinking career with one dream explaining why he decided his elevator had gone down far enough.
Points to discuss during Podcast
-It works! It's keeping me sober. Talk about every Monday at 6am goal and how someone reached out.
Fear of creating podcasts is no one will listen, mine is that people will actually listen.
Dream
Peace, Calm, unity, free
Gary Jules - Mad World Dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had which describes how Paul felt in the summer of 2014.
Repeating statements, words etc. Broken Record. Are you not listening to your own podcasts?
Addiction doing laps on ten-speed bike
Addiction can dunk a basketball
Doing pull-ups
Burpees
Taking a break, then buying performance enhancing drugs
Picture of my beautiful view while podcasting
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Recovery Elevator, episode 3. |
| 0:02.4 | Sean of the dead, this podcast works. |
| 0:12.0 | Number one, it works for me. |
| 0:15.0 | Like I said, I'm trying to help people quit drinking and stay sober, but it works. |
| 0:20.0 | I've stayed sober. |
| 0:21.0 | According to my Recovery Elevator sobriety tracker app available on Android and for the iPhone, |
| 0:27.7 | I have been sober for 179 days, which is two days shy of six months. Yes, I never thought I would make it here. |
| 0:37.2 | I never thought I'd make 30 days. Yet alone 179 days. I'm not putting six months in the bag. I'm taking this one day at a time, but man |
| 0:47.7 | six months and two days. I am so happy. I'm gonna have a lot of soda water with a lot of ice cubes and a hell of a lot of lemon wedges and I might dance. |
| 0:57.0 | I don't know it's going to be a wild night. |
| 0:59.0 | Email me info at recovery elevator.com and let me know your progress. You've got to track your |
| 1:04.7 | progress and I also received another email. People are actually listening to this |
| 1:09.7 | podcast which is terrifying me at the same time. We'll get that in a sec. |
| 1:13.0 | In episode zero I said I had a goal of releasing one episode a week at 6 a.m. every Monday |
| 1:19.6 | for the next 52 weeks or for a whole year. |
| 1:23.0 | Well, I uploaded three podcasts to iTunes and the dates were on there and in my mind I said |
| 1:29.6 | three podcasts will buy me three weeks of time but that was not the case to |
| 1:33.8 | listeners I just didn't see it that way and somebody emailed me and said hey just |
| 1:38.6 | want to make sure you're okay there was not a podcast on Monday morning at |
| 1:42.3 | 6 a.m so this podcast will be up next Monday morning at 6 a.m. |
| 1:47.0 | Thank you for reaching out. Here it is. |
| 1:50.0 | Let me talk to you for a second about a crushing emotion called Fear. |
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