You're listening to the Recovery Happy Hour Podcast, and season five starts now. Hi everyone welcome to recovery happy

where we talk about life beyond the bottle and what happens after we stop drinking.

I'm your host Tricia and I'm a real live human being behind this microphone.

Thank you for joining me.

Well, it's been a heavy week, y'all, that goes without saying.

And I try to think of a way to address what's happened in our country

over these past couple of weeks and what racism has to do with recovery but to cram it all

into a 10-minute introduction is impossible. It needs its own episode so I

recorded a conversation with one of your favorite previous

interviewees, Chris Marshall, that will be coming out later this week as a bonus

episode. I also do want to let you know about a book club that I've organized with a discussion

happening on July 9th.

I've started reading a book called How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibrahim X Kendi,

and I hope you'll join me in reading it. You can learn more on

recovery happy hour.com when you click the book club tab and yes this is a book club

for books that aren't directly related to recovery, although really I think everything is kind of related to recovery.

This is still a recovery podcast and will remain so, but I also didn't get sober so that I could stuff down my feelings. I didn't quit

drinking to keep being a people pleaser and I'm definitely not in recovery so that

I can stop learning. But here's one thing I need to get off my chest with you guys, my

listeners because I love you. I have a responsibility to every single listener to try and

represent your stories on the podcast.

And if you're experiencing trauma from racism that contributes to your drinking,

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