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Sober Friends

E269: My Drinking Had a Formula (And It Always Ended the Same)

Sober Friends

Matt J

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

4.3 β€’ 722 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Send us Fan Mail Nobody gets sober because they want to stop drinking. They get sober because their life isn't working β€” and somewhere along the way, someone handed them a set of instructions that actually helped. Matt and Steve call it the recipe. Not a rulebook, not a religious text, not a list of suggestions. A recipe. Follow the steps enough times and something unexpected happens β€” it stops being something you do and starts being how you live. In this episode they dig into what sobriety a...

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0:00.0

The 12 steps, it is a Jedi Mind Trek, it is a recipe so that you are addressing all the

0:06.9

underlying issues that you have that make alcohol your cure.

0:18.0

Welcome to the sober friends podcast.

0:21.7

My name is Matt.

0:23.1

Steve is over there.

0:24.5

And immediately I've got a topic here.

0:26.6

And I'm thinking about Bill from, what is the name?

0:30.1

What is the name?

0:30.7

But a podcast, bringing up Bill's name again.

0:33.8

And now, you know, Bill said it's great that when we go off topic, sober but not mature.

0:39.8

I'm doing the intro and I'm already off topic because I'm thinking of Bill and sober not mature

0:44.9

and those two guys who like it when we go off topic.

0:47.8

But I really want to talk about what sobriety opened up.

0:51.7

I had this conversation last week with Dr. Jaffe and I'm still thinking about what is good about

1:00.6

sobriety because we talk about our struggles all the time when we had alcohol, but I want the

1:07.7

newcomer to think about, you know, shit, man, this is too hard to do.

1:12.1

No, no, no.

1:13.0

What was it like, oh, my God, I'm glad I did this and I didn't realize life is easier

1:18.6

because I got sober and just kicking off.

1:24.4

It's the mental chess game ended with me. Off the top, what your thoughts on the

1:31.6

on the topic. Good morning, Matt. Good morning. Yeah. Happy Sunday to us and Tuesday when you hear

1:42.6

this somewhere down the road.

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