41: Why You Have to Work a Program
Soberful
Veronica Valli
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Consistency is one of the most essential ingredients of sustainable sobriety. Because alcohol is not the main problem, just a symptom of the problem Chip and Veronica discuss why you have to keep working a program to deal with your feelings and emotions. We also cover why we need a program that enables self-reflection so we can deal with other people. The biggest red-flag that we are not ok is when we start making other people the problem. It is this consistent work we do on ourselves that enables us to grow and stay sober.
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| 0:00.0 | I dreamt that you were twisting through seven sons of gold and the gypsy was insisting |
| 0:10.1 | that his story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning |
| 0:19.1 | that you might be a treasure |
| 0:21.8 | I could touch but never hold |
| 0:25.3 | Hi everybody, this is Veronica Valley |
| 0:29.7 | And this is Chip Summers |
| 0:31.5 | Welcome to the Soberful podcast |
| 0:35.2 | Chip and I are people in very long-term recovery. Chip has, is it 34 years? |
| 0:41.7 | It is 34 years, yeah. |
| 0:43.0 | Wow. 34 years of sobriety and I am coming up to 19 years. We are experienced psychotherapists and |
| 0:51.6 | coaches and we have spent our careers helping people change |
| 0:56.6 | their lives by getting sober and stopping using drugs. We talk about all sorts of things on our |
| 1:02.4 | podcast to do with recovery and all of that kind of stuff. We would love to hear your thoughts on |
| 1:08.3 | this podcast. You can find us on social media at Love Soberful on Instagram or at Veronica Valley on Twitter. Are you on Twitter, Chip? I am now, yes. But being on Twitter means like, do you actually like check it? Yeah, I do. Yes, I've started. I've started. So is it Chip Summers? I think it's at Chip Summers, yeah. We think it's at Chip Summers. Yeah, yeah. I think it's |
| 1:30.2 | at Chip Summers, yeah. Okay, fantastic. So we'd love to hear what you think about the episode. One of the |
| 1:35.1 | things that's been coming up in the Soberful Facebook group is people have this sort of reoccurring |
| 1:42.1 | question about what should they do next and why do they feel this way and all that kind of stuff. |
| 1:48.1 | And I was kind of thinking we need to talk about why we have to work a program. |
| 1:52.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:52.7 | It doesn't matter which program. |
| 1:55.1 | We're not saying a specific program, but I've always been a big believer. |
| 1:58.8 | Like if that's working for you, then you have to keep |
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