Recovery Elevator episode 21.

In a big way I feel like drinking affected my relationships just in the sense that that's how I made relationships.

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

According to my Recovery Elevator Sobriety app on my iPhone, I have been sober for 10 months and 5 days which is awesome. On today's

podcast I'm going to discuss 10 ways that you can meet new friends in

sobriety because let's face it if you really do want to get sober and maintain your sobriety, you're probably

going to have to change who you hang out with. Maybe not all your friends, but probably

a couple. After that, I've got Simone from South Africa, and she's got eight months of sobriety on the podcast.

She's the one that gave me the idea for this topic because she mentions that a lot of the relationships and friends that she met were formed at a bar.

And that was the same way with me too. So thank you Simone

for the idea for the topic. But before we get any further in today's podcast let's hear from our sponsor

Sober Nation. A reoccurring theme in the Recovery Elevator Podcast is you must get outside your comfort zone

if you wish to reach sobriety and maintain sobriety because sobriety is not located in that circle of

comfort. It's a dot far outside of

your comfort zone. And these are not small changes you're needing to make in life.

Number one, quit drinking. That's monumental. You've probably been drinking for a long time. And drinking, if you're like me, is what made you feel normal. It made my anxiety go away. I could talk to girls. I dreamed up elaborate goals and plans, even ways to accomplish those plans.

When to wake up the next morning, nothing ever got done.

So not like quitting drinking was enough.

It's one of the first things you want to do.

But number two, you're probably going to want to change the group of people you hang out with, or at least add a couple new people to your existing group of friends.

Because unfortunately, if the people you hang out with are your drinking buddies,

this whole sobriety thing probably isn't going to happen.

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