0:00.0	Hold on to your headphones. It's season three of Recovery Happy Hour, where we talk about life beyond the bottle and what happens after we
0:24.4	get sober. I'm your host Tricia. Thanks for joining me today. Today we are talking
0:29.8	about non-alcoholic beer. I want to talk a little bit about other NA drinks too but beer is going to be the focus.
0:37.0	First and foremost I need to let you know that everything I say in this episode is coming from a place of me not being triggered by drinking
0:45.2	an A beer. The taste of it and the action of drinking of it don't make me want to drink alcohol.
0:52.4	If you were a beer drinker and you know that this is dangerous territory for you,
0:56.3	or if talking about it triggers you, I totally understand and respect where you're coming from.
1:02.4	I'm not going to be but hurt if you go ahead and skip this episode because we're going to talk about it a lot.
1:07.0	Maybe this will be a week that you can go back and finish some earlier episodes that you didn't finish.
1:12.0	But if talking about N A beer isn't a big deal to you,
1:16.4	then you're really going to enjoy this episode because we've got Jeff Stevens, the creator of
1:20.9	well-being brewing on the show today and I really enjoyed our chat and I learned a lot.
1:27.4	But this introduction is also about how I viewed non-alcoholic beer when I first got sober versus how I view it now.
1:36.1	So I was afraid of drinking in a beer in those first few months of sobriety, not because I was worried
1:42.0	about it making me want to drink because honestly I wasn't
1:45.5	Beer wasn't my drink of choice
1:47.8	Vodka and wine were I was worried about what other sober people would think.
1:53.5	I was worried that I wouldn't be sober enough.
1:56.5	I was worried that because non-alcoholic beer is labeled as having 0.5% or less alcohol that I would be disqualified from sobriety and kicked out of AA meetings.
2:08.0	I was worried about all the wrong things because I'm a people pleaser and a perfectionist and that's my real problem, not drinking a
2:16.8	beverage.
2:18.8	Here's the lowdown on drinks and foods that contain trace amounts of alcohol.
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