RE 134: What I Learned at the Recovery Elevator Retreat
Recovery Elevator
Paul
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🗓️ 11 September 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Paul summarizes the Retreat, which took place in Bozeman, Montana.
SHOW NOTES
[13:22] Paul Introduces Kristin 238 days sober, Amy 11 years sober, Dave 12 days sober, and John with 18 and ½ years of sobriety.
[15:55] Paul- What did you think the retreat was going to be like?
Dave- I didn't have any set expectations. It has been sharing, but so much more. I have connected with every single person here.
[16:50] Paul- What surprised you so far on this retreat?
Kristin- I was surprised at how easy it was to talk to everybody here. I am not extremely comfortable around strangers. Since we have been in the online community the past year, it was easy to chat with everyone.
Amy- I enjoyed the camaraderie. It is beautiful here.
[27:30] Paul- Tell us what made you decide to come, and a little about your story?
Kristin- My drinking career didn't start until 2001. I realized about 5 years ago that I had a problem, and tried to moderate. My bottom was New Years Eve. I have not lost any friends in sobriety. It's been a wonderful 8 months.
Dave- I grew up in a household of Tea Totalers. I got into a high stress job with expense accounts. The "sick and tired of being sick and tired" resonated with me. There is a new chip on my shoulder.
Amy- I started drinking when I was 13. I had the epiphany that this was the missing link. I didn't think there would be this much joy in sobriety. You can't love other people until you love yourself. Everything I wanted alcohol to give me, I got sober.
John- My drinking career began in high school. My mom passed away when she was 47, many family members had alcohol related deaths. I became a daily drinker from college to 40 years old. January 5th of 1999 is when I got sober. My biggest breakthrough was writing a letter to my mother who had passed away. I stay sober due to the people in my community.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Recovery elevator |
| 0:03.4 | and I don't want to miss out anymore. I did that enough drinking Welcome to the Recovery Elevator Podcast. My name is Paul Churchill. Thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:17.0 | According to the Recovery Elevator sobriety Tracker on my phone, I've been sober for two years, 11 months and three weeks. |
| 0:24.0 | Today's show is brought to you by Hello Fresh. |
| 0:26.6 | Visit Hello Fresh.com and use the promo code Recovery Fresh 30, no spaces, |
| 0:31.5 | to save $30 off your first week of deliveries. |
| 0:34.4 | On today's podcast I've got four guests. |
| 0:37.8 | We did a live panel interview at the retreat. |
| 0:41.0 | You might hear some pine cones falling off the trees, a red-tail |
| 0:44.5 | Falcon swushing by. It's a great panel of interviewees with different sobriety |
| 0:49.8 | times and different backgrounds. It was a fun interview to do. |
| 0:53.0 | Before we get any further, let's hear from Cafe Ari. |
| 0:57.0 | Before I got sober, I felt alone. |
| 0:59.0 | It felt like I was the only one in the whole world who found it extremely difficult to stop drinking once I had started. |
| 1:04.7 | With Cafe R.E. I now know I'm not alone. In fact, there are so many people all around this world just like me. |
| 1:10.6 | In Cafe R.E. for $12 a month, I get access to a private unsearchable Facebook group |
| 1:15.8 | where I can connect with other like-minded individuals, meet with them face-to-face in several |
| 1:20.4 | weekly live webinars and meetings, I can get paired with an accountability partner who has a similar sobriety date as mine, I can attend in-person meetups, and attend exclusive sober trips to places like Costa Rica. If there's one thing I've learned in sobriety it's that I can't do this alone. |
| 1:35.0 | Go to recovery elevator.com and use the promo code elevator for your first month free. |
| 1:40.0 | Again, use the promo code elevator when signing up for your first month free. |
| 1:45.0 | If you've been listening to the Recovery Elevator podcast for the last year or so, you know that we had a retreat |
| 1:50.0 | in Bozeman, Montana, August 24th to 27th. |
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