You're listening to the recovery happy hour podcast and season seven starts now, cheers.

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 the amount of brain cells that I gain by listening to NPR every

day is probably canceled out by the amount of brain cells I lose by watching RuPaul's

drag race.

Thank you for joining me.

Big week last week in addition to the season seven premiere of the podcast because I am

now officially older after having a 40th birthday, probably not any wiser but working on it.

And after all we've survived in the last year, I'm dedicating today's introduction to tips

on how to re-enter the world as a sober person, post COVID.

Last year at Drinking Skyrocketed, I mean you can Google Drinking Skyrocketed during

the pandemic and you'll find a ton of new articles and research.

I mean everyone was dealing with the stress of all the things that I don't need the list

because we've all been living it.

And if you are one of the brave ones who decided to take the leap and quit drinking last

year, first I want to say that I am so proud of you, you know, to have gotten through an

event that affected the entire planet that almost no one in a generation has experienced.

Well, I just, I think you're amazing.

And if you continued with your existing sobriety and didn't pick up a drink last year, well

I am so proud of you too.

And today's introduction isn't just for beginners.

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