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Recovery Elevator
Paul
4.7 β’ 1.8K Ratings
ποΈ 25 May 2015
β±οΈ 38 minutes
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Summary
Randy Raphael has 8.5 years of sobriety and he tells how getting sober doesn't have to be such a struggle.
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| 0:00.0 | Recovery elevator episode 14. |
| 0:04.0 | I was looking for a way of escaping reality and alcohol was the quickest and easiest way to do that. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the Recovery Elevator Podcast. My name is Paul. Thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:18.2 | According to my Recovery Elevator Subriety App Tracker on my iPhone, I have been sober for eight months two weeks zero days |
| 0:25.7 | nine hours 16 minutes and 28 29 30 seconds now the iPhone app available on iPhone and Android has only been out for two |
| 0:35.1 | months yet we're already on version three. Like sobriety it's a work in |
| 0:39.7 | progress. So if you do have the app check your updates there are a couple things that we have improved |
| 0:45.1 | number one the iPhone it used to get stuck on a screen when you try to input your date |
| 0:49.5 | but there are some things that still need to be worked out in the future. If you go and change anything on your |
| 0:54.4 | settings about, for example, you go, ah, you know, I think I drank five drinks instead of four drinks. |
| 1:00.1 | Then you will need to re- input the sobriety date. |
| 1:03.0 | You're going to lose a couple hours and minutes and things like that, |
| 1:06.0 | but you still get the date right, you just have to back log it. |
| 1:09.0 | This app, it's incredibly simple. |
| 1:12.0 | It's basically a timer. However, for myself, it's incredibly |
| 1:15.5 | vital to my recovery. You've got to track your progress and never forget what happened for me, |
| 1:22.0 | eight months and two weeks ago not so much about what |
| 1:25.0 | happened for example what jail sale I woke up in I just can't forget of how bad it was |
| 1:30.1 | so you've got to track your progress and keep in mind time is always moving |
| 1:35.6 | forward. Your last drink it's getting further and further away and your memory of |
| 1:39.7 | your last drink it is also getting further and further way but you can't forget your last |
| 1:44.2 | drink and really just how terrible it was while you're drinking. The app also has a |
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