You're listening to season six of the recovery happy hour podcast.

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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 Trisha and I don't like bacon.

And for some reason, that's really upsetting to some people. Thank you for joining me.

Well, happy Tuesday. This is going to be the last episode of season six before I take a break for

a couple of months. To be honest, everyone, I had a few more episodes planned, but life has been

a little crazy lately. It's been handing me a little bit too much. And in order for me to stay

somewhat in balance, I had to make a judgment call and just end the season a little bit early.

That's the thing about this podcast. Based on the feedback that I received from the listeners,

it's been really helpful to you all. And that is amazing. That has been the goal since day one.

But I too am a person in recovery. And I have to make sure I keep myself first so that I can continue

to be helpful. So I want to spend this episode answering your listener questions only. And then I'm

going to cover some personal items at the end of the episode. But a crowdsourced on social media,

you guys seem to really, really love the previous Q&A that I did. So we're going to focus on that.

I have pulled my favorite questions. I wasn't able to get to all of them, but most of them we did.

So that is what we'll be covering today. And we'll go ahead and start now.

So there were a whole bunch of questions that came in that you asked about my involvement

or my opinion on AA. So I've kind of blended all those together. Do you attend meetings?

If so, what type? Why or why not? Where is your home group? I'm currently not an active participant

in the program of AA. I used it a lot in my first year and a half. I worked the steps. I had a sponsor.

I went to meetings. I personally found it to be tremendously helpful in early sobriety. But after a

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