You're listening to the Recovery Happy Hour Podcast, and season five starts now. Let's into the horror play!

Hi everyone.

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 the only thing I regret about not drinking is the time I wasted figuring out

if I wanted to stop. Thank you for joining me. Today's introduction. figuring out

if I wanted to stop. Today's introduction ties right into our interview.

We've got the two authors of the brand new book, The Sober Lush, out today,

and we're talking about creating and celebrating a big and beautiful sober life.

And this has been the mission of the podcast since day one, almost two years ago,

talking about life beyond the bottle. What happens

after you stop drinking? You know I don't like the discussion to camp out in our old

lives when we were drinking because the thing that made you miserable can't be your

focus for the rest of your life. Don't get me wrong, those stories, they have a place, you know,

they do serve a purpose and that's why I do make sure that each

guest each week tells their story and keeps it under five or ten minutes.

But after, after you've quit drinking, after you've unlearned that habit, after you've created a life where not having

alcohol around becomes normal, there's got to be something more. We don't want to

become martyrs who are wallowing in our lives of deprivation.

We have to find a way to live an alcohol-free life full of pleasure and joy,

full of indulgences and things that wake up our senses,

full of adventure and freedom.

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