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, I've never seen Star Wars and you can't make me. Thank you for joining me today.

Merry Christmas everyone.

This episode is scheduled to come out on Christmas Eve and I hope that most or at least some of you

are able to take some time off today from your usual grind to spend some time with someone special or do something nice for

yourself. I know the holidays can be tough for a lot of people and some people think that

we're supposed to pretend like it's a Hallmark movie and everything is perfect and fine.

So I just want to say that if today sucks for you, if you don't have family or if you don't like

the one you got, I get it.

And I hope you can treat yourself to something nice or find a moment of peace and quiet.

Just remember that drinking will not make today any better.

It will just guarantee that whatever you're wanting to resist the most is going to be waiting there for you tomorrow when you're hung over.

You can do this.

Today's episode is a traditional 12-step recovery story with Dave from Massachusetts and he reminds me a lot of

episode 57 with Kenny another dad from the Northeast. I just love these

interviews because they sound so different than me.

It adds a little variety to my Texas life.

Today's episode is also unique because it's an important story

to share about when drinking doesn't solve everything.

Sometimes removing alcohol reveals a much larger underlying issue

like today's story about bipolar disorder.

When we get sober, it's common to think that drinking will make everything in life great.

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