You're listening to season six of the Recovery Happy Hour podcast.

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Let's do this. 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 I'm here to say that there's only nine days

left in the year 2020 and I'm not a rapper and that doesn't rhyme. Thank you for

joining me. Happy Tuesday. We've got a really great episode this week,

and it is full of really important things to consider

if you're still struggling with the idea of quitting drinking,

and I'm gonna summarize it in today's introduction.

So there is no nice way to say this. Shame? Shame is a boner killer. Yeah, shame is an ugly dark feeling and it often

keeps you from making healthy decisions for yourself.

One of the things that I tended to do when I was trying to control my drinking

unsuccessfully, spoiler alert, was I would shame myself every time I went over my limit.

You know, I try to have one or two glasses of wine or one or two cocktails and stop there.

And without a doubt, I drink about three times that much and I'd wake up the

next morning sometimes not remembering what happened or not understanding why I couldn't

just stop like other people you know like normal people and I was ashamed of that. I thought that this was my fault, that I was

somehow broken or didn't have enough self-control in me to do this.

And shame would often keep me from...

And shame would often keep me just beating myself up

over and over and over again.

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