Have a seat and grab your favorite sparkling water. It to Recovery Happy Hour!

Hey guys, 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.

You know what's funny about recovery?

You can be told something a hundred times over and over again but sometimes it takes you

forever to actually understand it. Maybe someone finally says it to you in the

words that mean something to you. Maybe it just happens on a day when the circumstances are in your favor for retaining a life lesson.

Maybe you just aren't ready to hear something until you're ready.

It's like the time I heard someone in a meeting say,

what I know about alcohol is that when I put it in my body, all it does is make me want more alcohol.

And now that seems like common sense to me. And I even knew this before he said that. But for some reason that day I went, oh, so that's what's happening, as if I hadn't heard it before.

Isn't that fascinating how we just absorb things whenever it happens and not always on the first try, or second or the 60th. The lesson that I'm finally

starting to really wrap my head around is this whole idea of life on life's

terms. I give advice on this podcast sometimes, right? But I'm really good at ignoring

my own advice. Seriously, just because I host the show doesn't necessarily mean that I've got this recovery

thing down any better than you do.

I'm still figuring it out one day at a time too.

So when I said a few weeks ago after I celebrated two years sober, that life was going to have ups and downs, and my responsibility was just to navigate it without drinking. I meant that.

When I said that we never arrived in this process, I meant that too. But this week, something kicked in.

Something slapped me in the face. I understood the concept of life on Life's terms on a very naive level.

Life on Life's terms doesn't mean that after you quit drinking your challenges will will decrease because they don't.

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