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It's Recovery Happy Hour. Hi 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 so right now is a great time I'm your host Tricia. Thanks for joining me today.

So right now is a great time to talk about today's topic because it was this week two years ago

when I first figured out this phenomenon of recovery burnout or recovery fatigue. I don't even know if this is a real word. It's just what I call it.

At about three and a half months sober, I started to reach a point where I was exhausted from recovery.

I was going to about five AA meetings a week.

I had my Facebook accountability groups, I was seeing a therapist, I did my daily readings assigned me by my sponsor,

I was working the 12 steps, exercising regularly, reading different self-help books, going to work,

running a business, and I started to burn out on being sober.

I remember one Sunday laying on my couch having canceled a group fitness class and talking to my

sponsor about how exhausted I was and I told her all

the things I was trying to do every day to work on my recovery and her advice was

very clear. Slow down. You don't have to do everything every day.

I think there's this misconception when we quit drinking that we are going to turn 100% of

our lives around.

And this is something I've talked about before on the podcast.

You're going to eat healthy, start working out every day, do a cleanse,

learn the perfect lotus pose, get sober,

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