Good evening, everybody. How you all doing? I hope you're getting through the week. We got a great

show plan for you. We're going to open up by talking about things that happen when you get sober.

A lot of people are stepping into sobriety and we're talking more about our difficult,

complex, nuanced relationship to drugs and alcohol. So that's what we're going to be kind of opening

the show upon, see where that gets us and going gonna also be sliding into those dms so as always if you

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Ah, much has come out of the past year or so, and part of that is people realizing that maybe some of the coping mechanisms or what they thought might have been self-care center.

It is actually maybe bump but a bunk and a little problematic.

And, you know, part of what makes people, you know, hesitant

or a little anxious about changing their relationship to drugs or alcohol or other things

in their life is what is on the other side of it, right? What does it mean if I got quote unquote

sober? So before we even get into some of the changes that you can expect, let's talk about

sobriety. Sobride is going to look different for everyone. The whole point of sobriety is not,

let's get people off of drugs and alcohol. It's not the goal. The goal is we're trying to work

on mental health and improve the quality of people's lives, right? Decrease the impact.

So sobriety is going to mean something different for everyone.

Sobrity for some might mean total abstinence from drugs and alcohol.

Sobrity for others might be removing just alcohol because that might be the only substance they have a problem with. And others, it might be removing just drugs while continuing to drink

successfully. And for others, they might be staying off of illicit drugs and alcohol, but might still be

using medicinal marijuana, that marijuana and cannabis in the states where it's legal with a

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