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Happy Hour where we talk about life beyond the bottle

and what happens after we quit drinking?

I'm your host Tricia, and I have a bronze medal

in taking naps.

Thank you for joining me today.

It is fall, you guys. It is fall you guys it's that gorgeous pumpkin spice time of

year and that means Halloween which is one of my favorite holidays and I wanted to go

over a few sober party tips for this episode in case this is your first

Halloween without alcohol.

You can actually read some of this in an article that I contributed to on The Temper written by Corey Clark called

How to Manage Your First Halloween Sober and I'll put the link to that in the show

notes on Recovery Happy Hour.com or you can see it on my social media.

But I'm going to expand on that article here in this episode just for you guys.

If this is your first Halloween and your future freaking about people noticing that you're not drinking or trying to find out why you're not drinking,

please, please, please know that the fear of the thing is always worse than the thing itself.

First and foremost, people legitimately don't care that you're not drinking.

They might be mildly curious, but they really don't want to know your history of your drinking

problems so if you're imagining that that's the case you're probably wrong I've

done the field research okay people don't care and they'd rather talk about themselves, but I'm getting ahead of

myself here. So here are my top tips for sober Halloween. One, decide you're not drinking.

Okay, if your mode of thinking is, well, hopefully I can stay sober tonight,

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