E163: Character Defects: How They Affect Our Recovery and Our Lives

Sober Friends

Matt J

Alcohol Free, Alcoholics Anonymous, Recovery, Dry January, Spirituality, Sober, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Sobriety, Sober Curious, Addiction, Religion & Spirituality, 12 Steps

4.2 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Send us a text In this episode, Matt and Steve discuss how character defects, such as fear, dishonesty, jealousy, and being transactional, can lead to problems in our relationships and our lives, and how they can trigger us to drink or use drugs. They share their personal stories and insights from working the 12 steps of AA, and how they learned to identify and overcome their character defects. Support the show 📫 Get more honest conversations about sobriety delivered to your inbox! Subscribe ...

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0:00.0	I'm Matt.
0:01.0	Hey, I'm Steve.
0:02.0	Hey, I'm John.
0:03.2	This is the Sober Friends podcast.
0:05.9	We're here for The Sober Curious, the new guy, and the old timer.
0:10.4	We're here to talk about the stuff anyone looking to live, alcohol-free has to face day-to-day.
0:15.5	Now we overcame those struggles.
0:17.3	We speak for no 12-step group, but we do try to remain anonymous.
0:21.6	You're not alone. This is the Sober Friends podcast.
0:24.6	I've been into the new Night Court because I like those old shows.
0:29.6	John Larichette is in the show and he's a real-life alcoholic.
0:34.6	And early on last season, the new judge, Abby Stone, talked about her character defects.
0:41.2	And he put two and two together that she had alcoholism.
0:44.9	And she had been working on trying to fix those character defects.
0:48.1	That was the theme of the show and why she went back to take over her, the court that her father had to feel closer to him.
0:57.3	Character defects are something we always talk about in recovery.
1:02.2	And I thought that would be an awesome topic tonight that we could share a little bit.
1:08.1	And as we were talking off the air, Steve, you talked about your character
1:11.7	defects coming up. What do you want to share? Yeah, you know, something, it's something that it was
1:16.8	interesting. How you doing, Matt? It's great to be with you, first of all. And yeah, I know you like
1:23.5	that show. And I actually saw an ad come on for it. And I'm like, I should probably watch this show.
1:27.0	And it's interesting that you brought that up because I didn't know anything about that but you know
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