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Sober Friends

E33: This Too Shall Pass

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

4.3722 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail It is easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of the moment. Matt J had a storm come through his town of South Windsor, CT and it left him without power and without some siding. It could have been worse as just feet from where he lives, trees were down damaging cars and homes. Seeing his kids freaking out, Matt freaked out on the inside instead of calling people in the program or using his tool. John I joins him and they talk about how to be prepared for the...

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0:00.0

Welcome to You Are Not Alone a Recovery podcast. My name is Matt Jay, and on this show, we share our experience, strength, and hope, especially geared towards the newcomer. You can check out our website, not alone recovery.com. All the links are there, all the social media stuff, although I've been a lot more

0:21.6

active on Instagram than anywhere else.

0:24.3

It's important for us to say to keep the traditions whole.

0:26.8

We don't speak for any 12-step group, but we do try and remain anonymous.

0:33.6

I've got John.

0:34.3

No Steve.

0:35.0

Steve has terrible priorities tonight.

0:41.0

The priority is he's going to spend time with family out of state.

0:46.5

How's wrong with him?

0:48.9

Yeah.

0:49.6

He had a whole household for the last week, at least a week.

0:54.6

I had to go and help him.

0:56.3

Yeah, a kid from Chicago.

0:58.5

I helped him with the Monday, New Jersey.

1:03.9

And he does all of our tech for us so we can have it live streaming on Zoom.

1:09.9

Yeah, that's not easy what he does every single week.

1:12.6

And it was the first time he had not been there since we came back.

1:16.3

I don't remember when we came back.

1:18.6

Was that like in the summer, September or so?

1:23.9

It was summertime.

1:25.0

He had not missed one meeting doing the tech stuff.

1:28.6

Right.

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