Welcome to You Are Not Alone, a recovery podcast. My name is Matt Jay and on this show. We're here to share our experience strength and hope recovering from addiction. And we don't speak for any 12-step group, but we do try to remain anonymous. So we've talked in the last several weeks about alcoholism,

but I never really had a plan here of just doing an AA podcast or do things with alcoholics.

My plan here is to do anything that you might be addicted to or for the families of those who

have people who are addicted.

I would love to talk to people who maybe you're an Al-Anon.

Maybe you're not.

Maybe you have a relative or a friend who has somebody who is sick and suffering or has

recovered.

This week I have my old friend from my last podcast, John from Scranton, and he reached out

and he said, hey, Matt, I'd love to talk a little bit about my

experience recovering and my time in rehab. John, it's great to see you. How's it going, Matt? How are you,

buddy? Good. It's nice to see people from my old podcast. It feels like, I know. I miss you,

but we miss you over on the dark side. You're over here in the light, man.

It's bright over here, but I like it. I like it. It's good. You're helping people. That's what I like. You know that.

Yeah, I can now just be a listener if I choose to. And if I choose to not listen to the Kirk Menahan show.

So we weren't going to talk about this, but what the hell? So I used to do a podcast as a fan podcast of the Kirk Menehan show.

And what's beautiful about doing this is I don't feel obligated to listen.

I can or I don't have to.

And I can just worry about not being involved in the show and just being a listener and being anonymous again.

And then I can do this to help other people

it's a big difference it's a big difference man it's a big difference and people are never never

ready for it and when it comes you see the true person you know what i mean like you you handled it for a

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