E72: Emotional Sobriety - More Than Just Not Drinking

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

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail When we were drinking, alcohol was our solution. It was not just our problem. Once we got sober, we had to find a solution to life's problems since our old best friend was taken away. The next level of sobriety is not just being dry, but to have control of how you feel. In this episode, John, Steve and Matt talk emotional sobriety and what it means to them: Being ok feeling the emotion, but not having to lash out and having controlThe place the 12 steps pla...

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0:00.0	I didn't want to feel emotions because they bothered me and they were scary.
0:07.4	I would prefer just to stay loaded and high so that I could just not feel.
0:12.2	And when I got sober, I no longer had my coping mechanism because my way to cope was to drink.
0:17.4	When I no longer had that coping mechanism available to me, I had to feel
0:22.8	what I was feeling. I had to feel the fear, joy, the worry. Today's sober friends podcast is
0:32.4	brought to you by Marie. Marie caffeinated us with three coffees.
0:38.1	Marie went to buy me a coffee.com backslash sober friends.
0:41.9	And she bought us a coffee, we're self-supporting through our own contributions.
0:45.6	And if you think it's important to spread the word to the newcomer, that recovery is possible, consider buying us a coffee.
0:52.7	At buy me a coffee.com backslash sober friends.
0:55.7	I'm Matt.
0:56.7	Hey, I'm Steve.
0:57.6	Hey, I'm John.
0:58.8	This is the Sober Friends podcast.
1:01.5	We're here for The Sober Curious, the new guy, and the old timer.
1:06.0	We're here to talk about the stuff anyone looking to live alcohol-free has to face day-to-day.
1:11.5	Now we overcame those struggles. We speak for no 12-step group but we do try to remain anonymous you're not
1:17.2	alone this is the sober friends podcast wasn't drinking in a vacuum it's drinking to overcome my
1:24.1	emotions and to get a handle on my emotions and I'll tell you my emotions
1:28.9	have gotten me into a hell of a lot of trouble at work. Emotional sobriety is our topic tonight.
1:37.4	John has decided to join us. He's finally back from Texas. John, welcome back. It's a nice place
1:44.1	to visit, but I do want to live there. I love
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