Grab a seat. Recovery Happy Hour, where we talk about life beyond the bottle and what happens after we stop drinking.

I'm your host Tricia and I've got pumpkin spice blood running through my veins right now.

Thank you for joining me.

So next week is Thanksgiving and that means we're officially in the holiday season.

This is such a precarious time of year for getting sober.

So for the next few weeks you're going to hear me talk about

holiday tips quite a bit and some upcoming events that I'm planning to help

support you as well. And today's interview has a lot of great material to help

you through this time of year but it's also a cool

foundational tool to help you with your recovery in general. Eric Zimmer hosts the

podcast The One You Feed, which got its name from the parable about the battle of the two wolves inside us all.

One wolf is evil, representing greed, anger, jealousy, self-pity, all those bad things, and one wolf is good, representing

love, kindness, peace, serenity, and all those nicer traits.

What determines the winner of this battle between the two wolves is deciding which one you feed.

Eric will talk more about this in the interview, but I wanted to focus on the point of this parable for today's introduction. So let's remove the

words good and evil from this equation entirely and replace them with recovery

and drinking. So you've got a battle inside of you all the time between the recovery wolf and the drinking wolf.

And if you're newly sober, the battle is especially strong.

Those wolves are loud and frenetic and they surprise you when you least

expected. And whether your program means working on some kind of 12-step program

or reading a self-development book or doing an online sobriety

course. There's a lot of new information being thrown at you. Sometimes just the

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