Have a seat and grab your favorite sparkling water. It's 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. Well, Merry Christmas guys. How's your day

going? Yeah, this episode is scheduled to come out on Christmas, so Merry Christmas, happy holidays,

season's greetings, etc, etc. How is your day going?

I know, the holidays are, they're the holidays. I mean it's so easy to

get wrapped up in the stress of the holidays, whatever that stress looks like to you.

And if you're getting sober for the first time,

that makes it a lot harder.

So if you are still sober today, congratulations.

And if you're not, well, you can always dump it out and start all over again right now.

So, the holidays are awesome, right?

Okay, I mean, they're great, they have their perks and they're also hella weird, hella weird.

And I'm not talking about my own family right now, but isn't it funny how like your family dynamics are suddenly on steroids during the holidays like if you have one of those families that

Doesn't talk about their problems and pretends like everything is fine then it's like everyone is extra fine

God damn it during Christmas, you know, because that's comfortable for a lot of us.

You know, something is familiar, and it's comfortable, and we like it, and we tend to stick with that.

And that means brushing your major issues under a rug and not talking about them is comfortable, then yeah, it's likely you're going to keep sticking with that. But comfortable doesn't always mean good. It's just what you're used to. For instance, if you are

listening to the radio in your car and there are six preset stations and five of

them are playing songs you've never heard and one of them is playing a song that you know, but you don't like.

Well, you're more likely to listen to the song that you know and don't like, because you do know it, and it is familiar.

That's just the way our brains work.

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