You're listening to the Recovery Happy Hour Podcast and season 7 starts now.

Cheers! 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 I am full of waffle fries right now.

Thank you for joining me. My introduction today is

dedicated to the new listeners. If this is your first time tuning into the show, I

thought it would be helpful for you to understand why I created this

podcast. Recovery Happy Hour was not originally intended for the person who's

actively in recovery and who's quit drinking. It was actually meant for the person who's still on the fence about quitting.

The person who knows their drinking is no longer fun all the time.

The person who's afraid of what life might be like if they quit,

who's got a big old case of FOMO or the fear of missing out.

I mean it was meant for you. If you're listening, the show is meant for you.

So here we go. Dear listener, I know why you're probably

here. You're here because you think you might need to quit drinking but you don't know

where to start.

You're probably here because you're confused.

Maybe you don't feel like an alcoholic, but you also don't feel like a normal drinker.

Maybe you don't know why you always try to have just one glass of

wine at night but wake up the next morning pissed off that it ended up being a

bottle of wine again. Maybe that's happening to you a lot. There's a lot of feelings that

revolve around questioning your drinking. And I know this because I questioned my own drinking

for the majority of my adult life.

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