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Recovery Elevator

030: Paul makes 1 year of sobriety and shares his story: Part 1

Recovery Elevator

Paul

Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 β€’ 1.8K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 14 September 2015

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Also in this episode, Jon shares how he reached 103 days of sobriety without AA or a 12 step program. He does however, have his own program in place.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Recovery Elevator, episode 30.

0:02.4

This is not an intellectual problem.

0:05.3

This is not something that you can solve the way I would solve a business problem. special podcast. The reason why, according to my Recovery Elevator sobriety

0:24.8

tracker on my phone, I have been sober for one year and four days. That's right Recoveryator, I got to say a big thank you to you all for

0:36.8

helping me get to the one-year milestone. If you're not there yet, I don't want to

0:41.4

spoil it for you, but it's great. You got to get here. The

0:46.2

feeling was amazing. In fact, I can't even explain it. The morning of I I was in Dylan, Montana after a Josh Turner concert. I was at a coffee

0:56.4

shop around 8.15 in the morning. I opened up Facebook and I saw the flood of personal posts, messages,

1:05.0

shoutouts from the private recovery elevator accountability group.

1:09.0

And I started to tear up in the small coffee shop in Dylan, Montana, where I'm not even joking yet right outside

1:16.2

the coffee shop window was a horse, a carriage, a family, and they were all going through the

1:20.8

drive-thru window getting coffee. I love Montana.

1:25.0

Despite the fact, I'm deathly allergic to horses.

1:28.0

And alcohol. Good thing I've never combined the two.

1:31.0

But if I start drinking again, I'll find myself on top of a horse, drunk,

1:36.2

cruising down Main Street, and that's reason number 782, why I have to stay sober. So I talk about getting outside my comfort zone in this podcast a lot.

1:46.0

That whole concept, which is part of my solution of how I made it to one year of sobriety,

1:52.0

has been extremely important to me. and I talk about it so much

1:55.3

I decided on that day September 7th, 2015 to write a post on Facebook. This is my own personal Facebook page. I do a lot of

2:04.8

posts on the Recovery Elevator Facebook page and the Recovery Elevator

2:07.6

private accountability group, but I haven't been that vocal on my own personal

2:11.7

Facebook page about my sobriety.

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