A note to the listeners. This interview includes discussion of child abuse and suicide.

Please listen with care.

Grab a seat. Recovery Happy Hour Season 4 starts now. Listen to the Horne Play!

Hi guys, welcome to Recovery Happy Hour where we talk about life beyond the bottle and what happens after we quit drinking?

I'm your host Tricia and I'm the one that got beyond the bottle and what happens after we quit drinking?

I'm your host Tricia and I'm the one that got away

for probably a really important reason,

so just let it go, okay?

Thank you for joining me today.

For our introduction today, I wanted to talk about triggers. A trigger is defined as an event or circumstance that is the cause of a particular action,

process, or situation.

In this context, we're talking about the circumstance

that causes you to want to drink.

If you're newly sober, you're probably experiencing

triggers left and right.

They can be a certain time of day

where you're used to fixing your first drink.

It could be a certain room in your house

that makes you feel like drinking.

It could be your office when you walk in first thing in the morning or a person who makes you feel a certain way and you usually soothe those feelings with alcohol

Triggers can even be as specific as a certain smell, a color, the weather, or a song.

Triggers are going to be everywhere.

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