Recovery Elevator episode 10.

There comes a point where you have to make the decision and I made it that moment.

Welcome to the Recovery Elevator Podcast. My name is Paul. Thank you so much for joining us.

According to my Recovery Elevator sobriety Counter app, I have been sober for seven months,

two weeks, four days, 21 hours and 48 minutes and seven,

eight, nine, ten seconds, which is awesome.

And Recovery Elevator, I am back from almost one month on the road, eight nights in Vegas,

which is eight nights too many if you were in early sobriety. But I'm back. I was in the lion's den, I had close calls, but I am back.

Thank you to those who reached out for me and helped me stay sober.

In today's podcast episode, I am going to introduce Recovery Elevator's newest program

Shredding the Shame, which I'll get to in just a second. I've also got Maggie on the podcast who has just

14 days of sobriety but she's doing it she

made the choice to quit drinking and she is well on her way and after that and

the you might be an alcoholic if segment I'm going to be using lines submitted from you guys, the listeners, so listen up.

And also I'm going to give Tommy from Norway a shout out at the end of the episode, so listen up.

Shreading the Shame.

Thank you Maggie for giving us this great name for this program.

Shreading The Shame is reason 768 of why I have started the Recovery Elevator podcast.

I was full of shame and guilt about being an alcoholic.

And that is why I kept my deepest, darkest secret, closest to my is I am not ashamed. My name is Paul, Churchill. If you didn't hear that right, it's P-A-U-R-C-I-L-L, and I'm an alcoholic and I'm not ashamed. I am not a weak person. I am not an awful person.

I am an alcoholic. I have a predisposed genetic makeup that when I am confronted with enough alcohol, which I consumed a lot of,

my body chemistry and most importantly brain chemistry will eventually change and modify, and

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