E63: What is the Difference Between Being Sober and Being Dry?

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

4.3 • 722 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail I'm not drinking anymore! I'm sober! Well, not so fast. John, Steve and Matt tell their own tales of what sobriety means to them and how it differs from just being, "dry." For us, the feeling of being dry, is just the removal of alcohol with no treatment in place to become sober. Dry means that our behaviors have not changed. We continue to have the same character defects that caused drinking in the first place. We become a drunk that's just dry. B...

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0:00.0	Mark S from the recovered podcast has sponsored this one.
0:04.9	He went in to buy me a coffee.com backslash sober friends pod and he bought us a coffee.
0:12.9	So Mark, this show is for you.
0:14.8	I'm Matt.
0:15.5	Hey, I'm Steve.
0:16.5	Hey, I'm John.
0:17.7	This is the sober friends podcast.
0:20.4	We're here for the sober curious, new guy, and the old timer.
0:24.9	Here to talk about the stuff anyone looking to live, alcohol-free has to face day to day.
0:30.1	Now we overcame those struggles.
0:31.9	We speak for no 12-step group, but we do try to remain anonymous.
0:35.8	You're not alone.
0:36.8	This is the Sober Friends podcast.
0:39.2	Our goal here is to be self-supporting to help the new guy. And so we set a,
0:45.6	Buy Me a Coffee account. We've had it up for actually quite a bit of time. And Mark was really
0:52.3	the first person to notice it. You can buy us a coffee
0:55.2	at buy me a coffee.com backslash sober friends pot or you can go to sober friendspod.com. And we're
1:02.1	trying to save up for a better tool to record the podcast. We're using it now. We'll see if you can
1:09.6	notice the difference.
1:15.3	If it's important for you to get this in the ears of somebody still sick and suffering,
1:17.1	the new guy, help us out.
1:19.0	We want to be self-supporting.
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