Recovery elevator episode 18.

When you know that there's something wrong with you, but you just don't know exactly what it is, it's really, really exhausting and it keeps you up at night.

So I'm just like, I'm thrilled, I don't have that in my life anymore.

Welcome to the Recovery Elevator podcast. My name is Paul. Thank you so much for joining us. According to the Recovery Elevator sobriety Tracker app on my iPhone, I have been sober for nine

months, one week, and six days. On today's podcast, I'm going to discuss the movie The

Anonymous People, which is a must watch if you are in recovery

or thinking about quitting drinking. After that, I've got Tim from sober Nation.com on the

podcast. He's going to share his story. Tim decided to take recovery in his own hands.

He started a movement called Sober Nation, a Nation that is an understatement.

He has an online Nation of over 200,000 followers. That's larger than the population of

Monaco, which is a country. But first, let's talk about the movie The Anonymous People.

Where did I find about this anonymous movie? Well I found

out about it from Sober Nation. There was a blog post written by Tim in August of

2014. I was like hmm let me check this out because at that point when I was reading the blog posts on

sober nation I was right in the middle of it. Now this blog post could not have been

written at a better time. It was a time when I was extremely shameful of my addiction my secret of being an alcoholic

Basically the movie the anonymous people unveiled just that the people are not anonymous anymore

And some people look at the movie like it's an

attack on AA, but most of those people they aren't in recovery. It's not an

attack on AA. To me this movie just calls it how it really is. There are

23 million Americans in recovery who don't really have a

voice, but there are double that amount, almost triple that amount, that are not seeking

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