10 Tips for Hosting a Sober Guest

The Bubble Hour

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 560 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This is a special episode intended for listeners in recovery to share with normie friends and family who want to understand how to make us more comfortable at their events. The list of tips is directed towards people who are not in recovery, but it can also be a resource for sober folks looking for ways to self-advocate. Listen alone and take notes. Or listen together, hit pause after each tip, and discuss. Forward to a friend or share on social media. Let's talk about sober socializing--what helps and what doesn't? The list can be downloaded as an image from Jean's blog, UnPickled. Click here: https://unpickledblog.com/2021/12/20/10-tips-for-hosting-a-sober-guest/ Learn more about Jean McCarthy at www.jeanmccarthy.ca Order books via www.jeanmccarthy.ca/books

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0:00.0	I own it, I did that, not proud, but that was me, and when I face it, I take back a little dignity, not looking for excuses, I just want to be free from power. Weakness had on me. Free, free, free, free, free.
0:33.4	Hi, everyone, and welcome to the bubble hour. I'm Gene McCarthy, recovery author, blogger, and podcast host.
0:40.9	I have been telling my story of life after alcohol since my first day of recovery in 2011 over at my blog Unpickled.
0:48.6	And I am using this episode to share some suggestions. This is the time of year where there's lots of get
0:55.6	g-togethers. New Year's Eve parties are coming up. It's year-end. There's various religious
1:00.9	holidays at this time of year. This is an episode that will serve you well all year round.
1:06.4	So guess what, you guys? This episode isn't actually for you. It's for you to share with the other people
1:11.3	in your life who want to support you and be helpful to you, but don't know how to do it. In early
1:16.8	recovery, I didn't always know what I needed. What I really wanted was to not be noticed and to kind of
1:22.1	just, you know, fly below the radar, have no one noticed that I wasn't drinking and not be a
1:27.0	bother and not be a burden. But it was helpful to have some one noticed that I wasn't drinking and not be a bother and not be a
1:28.1	burden. But it was helpful to have some certain things. I just didn't know to ask for them.
1:33.3	And once I did know, it isn't always easy to ask for them. So I'm hoping, I'm hoping that this
1:39.9	episode will be a way to help you do that by either listening to it yourself and hearing
1:47.1	ideas of what you can ask for or you can share this podcast with someone in your life,
1:54.3	what some ideas are.
1:55.5	So that being said at this point, hello to those of you who are listening, who are not
2:00.4	typically listeners of this podcast, but who those of you who are listening, who are not typically listeners of this
2:01.7	podcast, but who have been forwarded this podcast or listening because you are about to host
2:07.4	a sober friend or because you want to learn more about the sober person in your life and what
2:12.3	they may need. Welcome to you and thank you so much for being willing to do this. I just think it is so wonderful
2:20.3	that we have friends who care enough to say, oh, I'm glad to do things differently. I just want
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