If we were to have this conversation pretty much exactly a year from now and it was a successful year for you in terms of managing your relationship to alcohol, drugs, etc., what would that mean? What do you want to make this relationship into in the new year?

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Welcome everybody to Motivation Monday.

Dr. Adi here.

So happy to be here with you for the first

episode of 22 man what a holiday season this has been this is now essentially the third

holiday season we all just went through post the um covid scare and the covid period that we've all been through here.

And that means a lot, right?

In the groups that we've been leading at Ignited week after week,

we've been hearing more and more about the isolation,

the stress and the anxiety that has come out.

And that is on top of how stressful these holiday seasons normally are

for so many of the people that I've been working with over these last 10, 11, 12 years or so.

And so I want to open up this year with something pretty simple for us.

And that is, I want you to pause and reflect a bit on what your relationship to alcohol or if you're using other drugs or other

ways of coping and escaping, what has that been like for you during the holidays?

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