Have a seat and grab your favorite sparkling water. It's Recovery Happy Hour. Hello, hi guys, and welcome to Recovery!

Hello, hi guys and welcome to Recovery Happy Hour

where we talk about Life Beyond the Bottle and what happens after we get sober.

I'm your host Tricia. Thanks for joining me today.

Before I get into today's topic of Recovery Toolboxes and my interview with Tim I wanted to give you guys

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inspiration on that account as well as links to helpful articles. So today's topic

is a broad umbrella, the metaphorical recovery toolbox. When you quit drinking, you can't do it alone.

You've got to have people in the same situation as you to share this with and to lean on them for support.

It used to be that AA and 12-step recovery programs were the only way for this kind of

fellowship, but luckily, guys, it's 2018, almost 2019, and it's 2018 almost 2019 and it's not nearly as limited as it used to be.

I used Alcoholics Anonymous and Social Media Recovery Groups to get sober early early on and I love A. A. A. A.

and I love the 12 steps, but I don't go to meetings right now because they're just not

giving me what I need at the moment. I still practice the 12 steps daily and I keep the big book in my nightstand.

I don't hate AA though and I just want to talk about the alternatives to it.

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