Welcome to Seltzer Squad, the podcast about staying sober in the city with your host, Kate Sander and Jess Valentine. Nat, welcome to the pod.

Kate, I'm so glad to be here.

I'm so excited to tell you about our new sponsors for the new year.

Who is it?

So we have brainwashed coffee, and brainwashed coffee is amazing because 50% of all of the proceeds support addiction recovery.

One of my sober treats this year was an espresso machine, so I'm really excited to use brainwashed coffee to make some lattes.

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Squad, I just finished my book list of 2021 and I wanted to remind you that if you go to

audible trial.com slash Seltra Squad, you get your first month free or a free credit,

however you want to look at it. One of my goals for 2021 is to read 50 books. I don't know if I'll

be able to read 50 books, but I did start making my list. I have a lot of quitlet on it,

and I'm very excited to start reading and listening. Majority of the books on my list are audiobooks. So if you're

interested in that as well, please go to audibletrial.com slash seltra squad and sign up.

Hello, Jess. Hello, Kate. Happy New Year. I want to answer some questions today. How are you? I'm good. I love that idea. I feel like it's

been a minute. We've got some juicy ones in our inbox. Yeah. Do you want to start or do you want me to?

You go first. All right. Dear Jess and Kate, I have been trying to get and stay sober for about a year now. I am able to put together

sober days, weeks, and even months, and I've put in some real work rewiring my broken brain,

i.e. therapy, interchild healing yoga, meditation, new friends, etc. But always seem to end up

convincing myself it's okay to drink again. I try not to be hard of myself and know it's part of the process

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