Recovery Elevator episode 54.

It's probably been a series of bottoms over a good number of years.

And each, I think each one, the distance to get back up to normality. It always seems a little further to

climb each time.

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

According to the Recovery Elevator sobriety Tracker on my phone, I have been sober for, 17 months months one week and two days. On today's

podcast we've got Gavin. He's from Manchester England and he's going to share with

us how he's gotten 100 days of sobriety and this this guy, he's also experienced some physical

transformations that he's going to tell you all about. It's awesome stuff. The

topic of today's podcast is humor and sobriety. And the inspiration for this podcast topic actually came from

Gavin.

Gavin joined the Recovery Elevator private accountability groups I believe two to three weeks after

they launched.

There was like 40 to 50 members I think in the groups at that time.

All of us including myself we were hesitant to really put ourselves out there in the group.

There weren't a lot of videos and if there were they were very safe they were very conservative nobody took any

chances or risks but then there was this guy Gavin who put out his video explaining

how he forgot his underwear to the gym locker room and he did like a 5K with no underwear.

I saw the video and just cracked up.

And since Gavin really got out of his comfort zone and explained that he was not wearing any underpants while jogging.

Everybody in the group has followed suit.

There have been funny videos, funny posts, funny pictures, funny memes,

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