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 with the newcomer.

If you're new and you're thinking of putting the plug in the jug, you have reached the right place.

If you would like to contact the show, the website is not alone recovery.com.

We don't speak for any 12-step group.

We speak for ourselves.

We do try to remain anonymous.

We're going to take a break from our traditions.

We've just started our traditions.

We're taking a break.

And the reason behind it is when we get a guest, we get a guest.

We plug them in.

So next week we'll be back on tradition too.

But my wife, who has now become the booker for this show, I think, has a friend from high school who she said, you know what, Matt?

You would love to have tyler on this

show uh and tyler and i i spoke on the phone a little bit on a night i was not having a good night

and it made my night better and tyler has an awesome story about how he put the bottom

bottle down tyler how are you i'm doing Matt. I'm going to first say thank you

for having me on. And I'm glad that I'm grateful to have seen your wonderful wife's post on Facebook

that was highlighting, you are not alone. And I said, you know, I need to message her and, and

reach out to you and

have the opportunity to share a little bit about my story and about what sobriety has done

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