E58: Taking Care of Your Physical Health in Sobriety

Sober Friends

Matt J

Alcohol Free, Alcoholics Anonymous, Recovery, Dry January, Spirituality, Sober, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Sobriety, Sober Curious, Addiction, Religion & Spirituality, 12 Steps

4.2 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Send us a text Your physical and mental health take a beating during active addiction. Recovery is a three legged stool of mental, spiritual and physical recovery. Eating healthy, exercising and seeing a physician on a regular basis is part of staying sober and can easily be neglected. Though we find recovery, we always have an alcoholic mind and that "obsession," can come out in other ways, like an addiction to working out and a compulsion to only eat the right foods. Unch...

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0:00.0	Welcome to You Are Not Alone, a recovery podcast.
0:06.9	My name is Matt Jane, along with Steve and John, in this show, we're here to share,
0:11.4	experience, strength, and hope recovering from addiction.
0:14.8	You can contact the show at our website, Not Alone, recovery.com,
0:19.0	Instagram at Not Alone Pod, or leave us a voicemail or text at 860281-2303. We don't speak for any 12-step
0:28.1	group, but we do try to remain anonymous. Steve and John, full Voltron together. I wanted to talk a little
0:35.0	bit about physical health and recovery. Here's why.
0:44.1	I have not been exercising regularly, even though I have one of these spin bikes. And I love being on a bike. I used to love spinning, but I had excuse after excuse. And for me, it's all
0:51.1	or nothing. And a friend of mine kind of pushed me and said,
0:54.5	well, why can't you just get on for five minutes?
0:56.7	Why can't you get on for 15 and build up?
0:58.9	And he goes, you know, you got sober.
1:00.4	If you could do that, why can't you do this?
1:02.9	And I'm like, son of a bitch, he's right.
1:06.2	Getting sober and going to my first meeting
1:09.3	is so much harder than getting on my bike for a half hour.
1:13.3	If I want to do a half hour on the bike watching Netflix while I'm doing it,
1:18.3	why can't I get up early to do that?
1:20.2	And it really made me think that, hey, this is important to do too.
1:24.1	And there's a three-legged stool, a physical, mental, spiritual, if I'm getting this right,
1:29.2	that we have to do to take care of ourselves.
1:31.8	And this is the one that I feel like we can neglect, or because we're alcoholics,
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