Ep 19: Gray Area Drinking/ Laura
Ep 138 Where are they now?
Recovery Happy Hour
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Recovery Happy Hour celebrates inspiring stories of recovery from alcohol addiction and what lies beyond the bottle.
Introduction: Gray Area Drinking
Interview: Laura
Episode Sponsor: Better Help
Links:
Monument, formerly Hip Sobriety School/ Tempest
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Recovery Happy Hour Podcast. Let's into the horror play! |
| 0:14.0 | Hi guys! |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to Recovery Happy Hour |
| 0:20.0 | where we talk about Life Beyond the Bottle |
| 0:22.0 | and what happens after we get sober. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm your host Tricia. Thanks for joining me today. |
| 0:27.0 | What I want to cover in today's episode is nothing new, |
| 0:31.0 | but I'm expanding on an idea that's been brought up a handful of times on the |
| 0:34.4 | podcast and is especially touched on in today's interview. |
| 0:39.2 | You've heard me say it before. |
| 0:41.2 | You don't have to be an alcoholic, or call yourself an alcoholic to decide that you don't want to drink alcohol anymore |
| 0:47.4 | If alcohol is making your life worse and not better that's a great reason to find a way to eliminate it from your life. |
| 0:55.0 | The hard part is that most of us don't know at what point to call it quits because we're |
| 1:00.2 | uncomfortable with what that says about us. We don't want a label. |
| 1:05.8 | We live in a culture where alcohol and now especially binge drinking alcohol is celebrated, |
| 1:11.4 | encouraged, glamorized, and the act of drinking it is deeply embedded in our |
| 1:16.5 | brains is something that's very normal. We live in a culture where alcohol represents |
| 1:21.3 | sophistication and success. |
| 1:23.7 | And if you can drink and stop at one or two, |
| 1:26.3 | good for you. |
| 1:27.3 | You probably don't need this podcast. |
| 1:29.8 | But we're also talking about a substance that is extremely addictive. |
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