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Recovery Elevator

032: Paul makes 1 year of sobriety and shares his story: Part 3 the Solution

Recovery Elevator

Paul

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

4.7 β€’ 1.8K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 28 September 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Tim explains about how Smart Recovery has helped him stay sober

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0:00.0

Recovery Elevator, episode 32.

0:09.0

Welcome to the Recovery Elevator podcast.

0:11.0

My name is Paul.

0:12.0

Thank you so much for joining us. According to my Recovery Elevator Podcast, my name is Paul. Thank you so much for joining us.

0:13.0

According to my recovery elevator sobriety tracker on my phone, I have been sober for one year, two weeks, and two days.

0:21.0

On today's podcast we have part three of my story.

0:27.0

I apologize it got a little long-winded there, but today is the most important part.

0:32.0

The previous two parts, if you listen to the similarities,

0:35.0

it's really the same as any other story of an alcoholic.

0:39.0

We choose to drink over time, it progresses into a disease and addiction and it just kicked the shit out of this

0:45.8

which is exactly what happened to me. But part three is my solution. How I made it to

0:52.1

one year, two weeks and two days. We're to talk about my

0:56.4

recovery portfolio. I love that word and I got it from a guy named Matthew who I

1:01.6

interviewed just a couple days ago he should be

1:03.8

at episode 34 or 35 maybe even the next one but he calls it a recovery

1:08.7

portfolio because when I was a dry drunk for two and a half years,

1:13.6

my recovery portfolio consisted of this,

1:16.2

a leather bound book, and inside, it maintained

1:19.0

one sticky note that said, don't drink.

1:21.6

That's all my recovery portfolio was. Fast forward to nearly

1:25.4

two and a half years later my recovery portfolio is busting at the seams and

1:30.6

that doesn't mean that I'm doing enough to maintain sobriety.

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