Welcome to You Are Not Alone, a recovery podcast.

My name is Matt Chey and on this podcast, we share our experience, strength, and hope, overcoming addiction.

You can contact the show at not alone recovery.com.

All the social media links, email, resources, blogs are there.

And if you'd like to contribute some contact, you can email me at Not Alone Recovery

at gmail.com.

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

Now, last week, we did part one of our conversation with Tim G.

It ran a little long.

So this week, we have the rest of the conversation.

The artwork for these last two episodes were actually painted by Tim.

And he talks a little bit about the painting that you see,

specifically the artwork for this podcast.

He talks about a Saturday night meeting.

He started at his house in his backyard outside to keep people connected during the depths of COVID.

And the creative way he's been able to do an outdoor meeting during the dead of the Connecticut winter.

We also go over Tim's

painting hobby, how he's found success with his new passion. And just like everything else,

Tim didn't want to do this podcast, didn't want to do the painting, didn't want to do the gardening,

didn't want to do that outdoor meeting, but he did. He did it kicking and screaming. And when he

finally did it, he found

his recovery got better. I'm sure there's a lot of you out there who can empathize, relate,

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