Today we're talking about acceptance, which is one of those recovery words that sounds simple,

unless you absolutely have to practice it.

Welcome to the sober friends podcast. We talk about the things that sober people talk about,

drunk people, I guess, talk about if they want to get sober.

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My name is Matt.

Steve is over there.

Steve, when you first heard the word acceptance, did it sound helpful to you?

Or did it sound like someone telling you, hey, just deal with it?

Good morning, Matt.

I don't know when I first really heard it.

I mean, obviously I heard it before AA, but it became very prominent in my life.

Not when I got to AA, but when I started working the program of A.A., right?

Because you go into meetings and you hear it.

And what I like to do when I hear something like that, even today, is I like to look the word up.

Because a lot of times I think I know what it means or you know

I have this in my head of what it means and then I look up a word and I find there's more to it right

like there's more meanings or there's more depth to the meeting and so it took me a while to figure it out.

And I definitely was something.

I did not want to accept the world as it was presented to me, right?

I did not.

I was in control because I grew up in an alcoholic family.

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