10: How to Have Fun in Recovery

Soberful

Veronica Valli

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

One of the biggest fears about quitting alcohol is that we will no longer have fun. In this episode we discuss how having fun in recovery is entirely different from having fun drunk. Sober fun is unplanned it happens naturally and usually has no price tag to it. We also talk about how scary it can be in early recovery just trying to do new things and how you can overcome these feelings so it becomes your new normal.

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0:00.0	I dreamt that you were twisting through seven suns of gold and the gypsy was insisting
0:10.2	that his story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning that you might be a treasure I could touch but never hold.
0:27.7	Hi everybody, this is Veronica Valley.
0:30.1	And I'm Chip Summers.
0:31.5	Welcome back to the Soberful podcast.
0:33.7	We really am enjoying being here every week and we so appreciate all the great feedback that we're
0:38.3	getting. We are both in long-term recovery. We both have a lot of experience working with people as
0:43.2	therapists and coaches and we decided to start this to really just talk about a lot of the stuff that
0:48.6	we have experienced and help people with as a way of just helping people feel less alone. I feel like Chip,
0:55.4	we kind of had some heavy episodes. Yeah, I think we've certainly given it a fair crack
0:59.7	of the heavier side of addiction and alcoholism, but then it does have that element to it.
1:04.9	It's very difficult not to, but I think it's really important that we let people know that
1:08.9	there's another side to it all and that
1:10.9	actually getting sober is something that brings with it a lot of fun and enlightenment and joy.
1:16.9	So let's talk about that. I was actually thinking of you last night because I was watching this show.
1:21.5	It's just started here called Patrick Melrose. It's based on the books by Edward St. Orban.
1:26.8	Yeah, that's right. I know it well. I've identified very strongly with the character. So I made me think of you because it was set in like 1982. That's when you started using then, right? No, no, no. I had been using for 20 years by then. That was when I went to prison. 1982? 1982, I was in prison. So I'd been using for a while. Okay. Well, this guy said in 1982. I wasn't having fun in 1982. Well, this guy wasn't having fun in 1982 either. I definitely wasn't having fun then, no. But I was having fun in 1962. Oh, really? In 1972, not so much fun, but yeah, no.
2:01.2	I forget how old you are.
2:03.0	Yes, I know. I forget sometimes as well.
2:05.4	I try to forget every day.
2:07.2	I know, it's shocking. I can't believe I'm in my 40s.
2:10.2	Anyway, this whole story, if anyone listening, is aware of it.
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