Recovery Elevator, episode 17.

And then I thought, okay, I can just drink beer, you know, on the weekends,

but I mean, when you're drinking a flat of beer,

for a girl to drink a flat of beer and still be able to walk around and function and drive,

unfortunately, yeah, that's just a scary, scary thing.

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

According to my Recovery Elevator Subridy app on my phone, I have been sober for nine months and one week at the end of the podcast today I'll explain

about what it felt like when I got my nine month chip a couple days ago at an AA meeting.

On today's podcast I have Lalaia from Canada.

She's going to tell us how she's just got one month of sobriety and how she might have to be starting

over.

But first I have compiled a list of nine ways of how to stay sober in a social gathering

or how to go out on a night in a town with your friends and stay sober.

I can ask all the time, Paul, how the hell do you do it?

How the hell do you put up with all these drunk people all the time and stay sober?

You're trying to tell me you're in the middle of this shitstorm and you're not drinking? No way. I don't believe it. How do you do this?

Well, this is how I do it. These are the nine ways that I use to give me the best chances of staying sober at a social gathering or an event.

And to be honest with you, Recovery Elevator, these aren't 100% effective.

Like vaccines, like condoms, there are failure rates. There are times when I've gone out to

parties with every inkling of desire not to drink. But sure enough, one of these

steps I skip and I end up drinking. So like a lot of the things I'm telling you recovery elevator

I'm also telling these things to myself. Here are the nine best ways so you can

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