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Sober Friends

E84: The Family After You Find Sobriety

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

4.3722 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Send us Fan Mail The show is brought to you by Sean, who bought us a coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/soberfriendspod. Sean thought it was important to put the show in the newcomer's ear. Recovery is not just for the person getting sober. Recovery affects the family too. For us, our family was very happy when we put the bottle down. But they had a hard time understanding all these meetings we had to go to and all these drunks running through our house. For Matt...

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0:00.0

Now dad spends a lot of time at meetings and helping other alcoholics.

0:05.5

What about, you know, what about his family at home?

0:08.0

Is he going to spend time with them?

0:10.9

You know, and I think that's one of the biggest, that one of these biggest struggles that we all deal with.

0:17.0

And there's some old timers that don't like the word balance, but screw that.

0:21.8

There's balance.

0:22.9

There's balance in recovery.

0:24.0

You have to balance family.

0:25.3

You have to balance work.

0:26.7

You have to balance your recovery.

0:30.3

Today's Sober Friends podcast is brought to you by Sean.

0:34.6

I met Sean on the Recovery, the recovered cast, Zoom meeting on Thursdays.

0:40.7

Sean likes our show, and Sean is from China. He is helping people learn to speak English in Beijing.

0:49.8

So he is on the other side of the world. He bought us a coffee, and he also became a member.

0:56.9

Now, if you want to become a member, or if you want to just donate, be like Sean.

1:00.6

Go to buy mea coffee.com backslash sober friends and buy us a coffee.

1:04.9

If you think it's important to spread the word to the newcomer, that recovery is possible,

1:08.9

consider buying us a coffee at buy me a coffee.com

1:11.9

backslash sober friends.

1:13.4

I'm Matt.

1:14.2

Hey, I'm Steve.

1:15.2

Hey, I'm John.

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