You're listening to season six of the Recovery Happy Hour podcast.

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Let's do this. Hi everyone welcome to recovery happy hour where we talk about life

beyond the bottle and what happens after we stop drinking I'm your host

Tricia and in my stocking this year I hope

Santa brings me the limited edition David Bowie Barbie doll that sold out last

year despite my attempts to tell Santa to pre-order it from two different Game Stop locations just in case.

Thank you for joining me.

Well, happy December, folks, we are smack dab in the middle of the holiday season and I believe you can

absolutely do this without drinking. Last week we talked about tips for staying

alcohol-free this holiday season and today I'm going to complete the

rest of that list so go back and listen to last week's episode if you haven't

already and come back and join me when you're done.

Are you back?

Okay.

Today I'm going to start off with this alcohol-free tip.

Focus on the event you're celebrating.

Yep.

Parties are usually meant to celebrate a thing, you know, an event, a person, whatever.

Beyond our own addiction or gray area drinking problem, whatever you want to call it, it's also are usually our garbage

culture that turns drinking into the focus of an event.

So for a holiday party, think about what you're celebrating.

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