041: Emotional Sobriety and Not Just a Dry Drunk
Recovery Elevator
Paul
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2015
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 41, I talk about emotional sobriety which is a topic breached with trepidation because fully understanding emotional sobriety is near impossible and I have so much more to learn about it. Also in this episode, I interview Erik from Massachusetts who is doing a great job in recovery working with other alcoholics. He mentioned in his interview that it isn't a requirement to hit rock bottom in recovery, a concept I wasn't familiar with in 2014 when I hit my bottom. The bulk of the content for this episode comes from Elliot P who just reached 2 years of sobriety earlier this month. Way to go Elliot!
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| 0:00.0 | Recovery elevator episode 41. |
| 0:02.0 | You don't have to hit some spectacular traumatic bottom in order to decide to seek recovery. |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to the recovery. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to the Recovery Elevator Podcast. My name is Paul. |
| 0:17.0 | Thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:19.0 | According to my Recovery Elevator Subriety Tracker app on my phone. I have been sober for one year, two months, |
| 0:25.1 | and three weeks. On today's podcast, we've got Eric. He's 25 years old and he's from Massachusetts |
| 0:32.4 | and he's going to explain what it's like to be an alcoholic who's also gay. |
| 0:35.8 | Before we get into our topic, which I am so excited and I had a lot of trepidation to even broach or breach whatever the word is of this topic which is |
| 0:46.4 | emotional sobriety. Let's hear from our sponsor sober nation. |
| 0:50.4 | Sober nation is the largest online recovery community and treatment resource |
| 0:54.6 | center. They provide treatment resources to those struggling with |
| 0:57.4 | addiction as well to family members who are caught in the crossfire. On top of |
| 1:01.4 | that, sober nation is a huge community of good people who share their experience with each other. |
| 1:05.5 | They have informative content, recent recovery and diction news, as well as an entire clothing line, |
| 1:10.8 | which helps expand the culture of recovery. They can be found at |
| 1:13.8 | W. W. W. Sober Nation.com once again that's sober Nation.com. That's right. Our topic |
| 1:20.1 | is emotional sobriety. A combination of words, which I understand what emotions mean and |
| 1:25.0 | sobriety means, but I didn't know what they meant when I put those two words together. But |
| 1:28.8 | emotional sobriety is the key to sobriety. This is the type of sobriety that you want to find |
| 1:35.0 | after you get sober. So sobriety is what your physical state is after you're not |
| 1:40.4 | drunk or you don't have the alcohol in your system. Emotional sobriety is that cloud |
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