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Sober Friends

E34: Isolation

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

🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Many alcoholics have had to deal with the effects of isolation both in active addition and after. Especially during COVID-19, when you have to social distance, it's easy to hide away and isolate from everyone in the name of good health. It's easy to stay home and be comfortable isolating in general and make excuses to not go to meetings or call people in the program. Matt J, John I and Steve C talked about their own issues with isolation and the trap it can ...

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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're here to share our experience, strength, and hope recovering from addiction. And you can contact the show via our website, Not Alone Recovery.com. One of these days, I'm going to get off my ass and do some blogging and put some

0:21.2

real good stuff. But in the meantime, you can go in there and find our social media links and

0:26.6

how you can listen to the show. And we don't speak for any 12-step group, but we do try to remain

0:31.6

anonymous. John I, Steve C. What's going on, boys? Hey, Matt, nice to be back. Nice to be back. Nice to have another

0:39.9

meeting this week. Yeah. Well, you've been hitting the Instagram lately, haven't you? Yeah,

0:45.0

so let me tell you a little bit about that. It's actually the one place that I have actually

0:51.3

seen some interaction. I'm almost to the point where I'm ready to give up Twitter completely because there's

0:58.1

not a damn thing going on there.

1:00.4

But when you post some positive stuff out in Instagram, you get a reaction.

1:05.6

You get some people following you.

1:08.1

So that seems to be the place to go.

1:10.7

It seems to be the place where people go to promote a podcast like this.

1:16.8

So I'm going where the people are.

1:20.0

It is not, I will tell you, this is an exercise in me learning some things.

1:24.6

Right.

1:25.0

Because it's not in my nature to be posting a whole bunch of crap like

1:28.3

that.

1:28.8

But I'm like, you know, I'm going to exercise a different side of my brain and see what happens.

1:33.8

Right.

1:34.3

You're going to be the newest influencer coming up.

1:37.3

I don't know about that.

1:41.1

But I'm learning.

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