“California Sober”: A Different Way to Look at Recovery | Recovery
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Dr. Adi and Sophie Jaffe
4.4 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Demi Lovato recently made headlines for her announcement that she considers herself “California Sober” rather than practicing complete sobriety. The statement led to a wave of uproar among some in the recovery community. But what does it even mean to be “California Sober”? In this episode, Dr. Jaffe takes a look at the public reaction to Demi’s statements and explores the concept of recovery without abstinence.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Ignited Recovery podcast, a new way forward for anyone looking for answers but feeling left out. |
| 0:10.2 | If you've been searching for empowerment, triumph, and purpose, you've found them right here. |
| 0:15.8 | You won't hear the same solutions and you're not going to have any excuses to fall back on because |
| 0:21.0 | ignited recovery allows heroes to rise and become their best selves. I'm Dr. Adi Jaffe |
| 0:27.7 | and I can't wait to be your guide on this journey. Are you ready to become an ignited hero? Hello, everybody and welcome to this episode of the Ignited Recovery Secrets podcast. |
| 0:46.9 | I'm Adjafi. |
| 0:47.6 | So happy to be here with you today. |
| 0:49.7 | And I'm coming to you from California. |
| 0:53.1 | Which means I may just be California sober. Demi Lovato |
| 0:59.6 | about a week and a half, maybe even almost two weeks ago, freaked out the entire recovery |
| 1:04.5 | world by using this California sober term. People were so freaked out by it. I was getting text and emails asking |
| 1:14.2 | me if I work with Demi because they know I'm about that non-abstance life or at least recovery, |
| 1:21.6 | not being all about abstinence. And so when she mentioned that, they immediately thought maybe |
| 1:25.8 | she works with me. She doesn't. |
| 1:27.7 | And even if she did, I couldn't tell you. |
| 1:29.0 | So it doesn't really matter. |
| 1:29.9 | But everybody was freaking out. |
| 1:32.3 | People were putting out video posts about how crazy she is and she's going to kill people and how irresponsible it is and how that's not recovery. |
| 1:40.3 | And just fucking losing their shit over this. |
| 1:43.3 | And so I thought, I thought I'm going to throw my hat in that ring. |
| 1:47.1 | If that's cool with you guys. And I want to start out by something simple and we got to point this out for everybody who's losing their shit over this. |
| 1:54.9 | We don't even know what she means by it. You have no idea what Demi means by California sober sober I was a meth addict I was using meth all day |
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