I own it, I did that, not proud, but that was me, and when I face it, I take back a little dignity, not looking for excuses, I just want to be free from power.

Weakness had on me.

Free, free, free, free, free.

Hi, everyone, and welcome to the bubble hour where real people tell real stories of addiction

and recovery. I'm your host, Gene McCarthy. I write the blog Unpickled, where I've been telling

my story of life after alcohol since my first day of sobriety in 2011. I tell my story there, and I hold space for your stories here.

And today on the show, I welcome Keith Keller. He's the author of the Infinite Recovery Handbook,

and I think we're going to have a really fascinating discussion today. So Keith is a registered

nurse. He's also studied several modalities of alternative and energy healing approaches.

And so as a guy who's been in recovery for almost three decades now, he brings personal

experience plus a wide breadth of approach to his method and practice of recovery.

And he's got a lot to share with us today, not only his story, but informing us on some of the things that he's learned about other ways to approach recovery.

Keith, welcome to the bubble hour.

Hi, Gene.

It's great to be with you.

Thank you for that really nice introduction.

Well, I'm glad you're here and I'm super interested to hear what you have to say.

Today, we were talking just a little bit before we came to air and I was telling you about how

on the bubble hour, we always talk about the patchwork approach to recovery and that this

podcast is really a way for us to hear how other people

are doing it and to learn about things without making recommendations or diagnosis or anything

like that. We're just all sort of sharing our story and how we did it. And so I always love to

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