You're listening to the Recovery Happy Hour Podcast, and season five starts now. Hello, hi everyone. Welcome to Recovery!

Hello! Hi everyone, welcome to Recovery Happy Hour where we talk about life beyond the

bottle and what happens after we stop drinking? I'm your host Tricia and it's been

over 1300 days since my last drink which has saved me almost 20 grand.

Thank you for joining me.

Today's episode is a bonus episode.

Yeah, to celebrate the second birthday of the podcast,

I decided to release a second episode today so

happy birthday. What's special about today's two birthday interviews is that

they're total opposites. We just had an episode with someone who wouldn't have looked like they had a

drinking problem on paper and now we've got someone who was drinking and using so

heavily in their formative years that they got sober while incarcerated at age 16 and now have almost 19 years of sobriety at age 35.

A common theme with episodes that include longer-term sobriety is that quitting drinking

doesn't just automatically fix your life. There's usually something

underneath the drinking that needs to be addressed and I've heard now in a few of

my interviews specifically with men about the

efficacy of inner child healing. Ryan talks a little bit about that today and it's

something I wholeheartedly believe in myself.

Inner child healing in its simplest terms is healing the things that have happened to you in your formative years that have left semi-permanent marks on your psyche. These are experiences that create habits in your brain,

learned reactions that can repeat themselves in adulthood if not fully healed.

Perhaps you had an emotionally unavailable caregiver or a parent growing up and you find yourself as an adult sabotaging your relationships by choosing emotionally unavailable partners.

Or maybe you spoke in front of your school classroom as a child and accidentally peed your

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