Grab a seat. Recovery Happy Hour, Season 4, starts now. Hi guys welcome to 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 had to wait for one helicopter, two planes, and what

sounds like a 1987 Honda Civic doing laps around the block

passed by before I could press the record button. Thank you for joining me today.

There are no sponsors this time I'm going to get right down to it.

This is the season 4 finale.

The last episode before I take a little break before starting season 5.

And for those of you that are new listeners, I want to first say, hello, hi, thank you for listening.

Recovery Happy Hour has grown exponentially since I wrapped up season 3 in August.

In fact, it's grown bigger than I ever thought it would and I feel like I'm just

getting started so it's kind of counterintuitive to even take a break. In August I was getting about 25,000 downloads a month and this month

that number will be closer to 60,000 downloads and it's coming in on the heels of me being

incredibly tired. I've made a handful of major life

changes in the past few months and meanwhile I have been using all the tools I have

to remain alcohol-free and live a happy life and recovery and stay invested in the service

work of this show.

So while I love all the messages and emails and social media comments that you send me,

please know that I'm just one of you, you know?

I'm just doing this day by day too.

And in order to have the energy to interview people

and keep up with correspondence

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