Recovery elevator, episode 31.

I'm not the type to drink when things go bad, I'm the type to drink when everything looks fine again.

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

According to my Recovery Elevator Subriety Tracker on my phone, I have been sober for one year, one week, and two days.

Before we get in today's amazing podcast, let's hear from our sponsor, Sober Nation.

Sober Nation is the largest online recovery community and

treatment resource center. They provide treatment resources to those struggling

with addiction as well to family members who are caught in the crossfire. On top of

that, sober nation is a huge community of good

people who share their experience with each other. They have informative

content, recent recovery and addiction news, as well as an entire clothing line

which helps expand the culture of recovery.

They can be found at W. Woburnation.com once again that's sober nation.com.

On today's podcast we've got Lindsay she's 32 years old. She's got two kids, lives in Florida, and Lindsay has been sober for 17 months.

Lindsay's story definitely resonates with myself because she was in her first 30 days of sobriety for

nearly four years but she just kept going and didn't give up that's how I

fell at the end of 2013 and the summer of 2014. I couldn't string

more than 10, 15, 20 days together. But before we get into the interview segment of the

podcast today, we've got part two of my story. This podcast is not about me. My story is not

more important than your story. It's not better, it's not worse. And to tell you the truth. It's probably not that much different than yours

What I mean by that is while listening to my story and all the other stories on this podcast you've got to listen to the similarities

and not the differences. It's so easy to say whoa my name is not Paul I would not have

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