RE 148: The Perfect Storm for Alcoholism
Recovery Elevator
Paul
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2017
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Randy Craig, with 49 days since his last drink, shares his story.
SHOW NOTES
[2:53] Paul Introduces Randy. I was born and raised in Casper Wyoming. I went to school in Colorado, and worked there for a few years. Music has been a part of my life since I was very young. I like to read, play music, take my dog on walks. My passion revolves around my music.
Randy tells his story in detail to Paul, and explains his journey up to this point.
[41:59] Rapid Fire Round
- What was your worst memory from drinking? Waking up in that Hospital in ICU.
- Did you ever have an "oh-shit" moment? My first detox.
- What's your favorite resource in recovery? Out of the Wreck I Rise" – by Neil Steinberg
- What's the best advice you've ever received (on sobriety)? It starts with you.
- What parting piece of guidance can you give listeners who are in recovery or thinking about quitting drinking? If you are even questioning it, odds are you should try to stop it before it gets worse. It is an awful disease.
- You might be an alcoholic if... I'm on my deathbed with an expired liver, and still have the energy to go to the bar.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by our X-BAR. |
| 0:02.6 | Visit our X-BAR.com forward slash elevator and enter the promo code elevator |
| 0:07.0 | for 25% off your first border. |
| 0:09.6 | Recovery elevator episode 148. |
| 0:12.4 | I know that this has been... every elevator |
| 0:13.4 | episode 148. I know that this has been a slow snowballing effect that gradually got bigger and |
| 0:19.1 | bigger and compounded itself to the point where my I was no longer who I once was and it impacted everything |
| 0:32.1 | Welcome to the Recovery Elevator Podcast. My name is Paul Churchill. Thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:36.2 | According to the Recovery Elevator sobriety Tracker on my phone, I've been sober for 1,176 days. |
| 0:43.4 | On today's podcast, we've got Randy. |
| 0:45.6 | He was sober for 515 days |
| 0:47.9 | until he hit the reset button on September 25, 2017. Currently, Randy is on the waiting list for a new liver. The interview with Randy is a lengthy |
| 0:58.3 | one, so I'm going to forego my topic, but I want to talk about three things in his email that he initially sent to me on October 31st, 2017, which are extremely important. |
| 1:08.0 | What I'm about to read is basically the core ingredients to alcoholism. Number one, we must have a genetic... is |
| 1:13.0 | number one we must have a genetic predisposition to become an alcoholic if we drink enough alcohol |
| 1:19.0 | but the three things that really stir up that concoction is, number one, a sense of denial that we don't have a problem. |
| 1:27.2 | And number two is we have a lack of coping mechanisms. |
| 1:31.1 | We don't properly know how to deal with stress with loss, |
| 1:34.3 | with anxiety, all of the above, and number three, self-loathing. Self-loathing is |
| 1:40.5 | almost always a part of addiction. I also want to preface the interview with |
| 1:45.4 | all the interviews on the Recovery Elevator podcast are pet friendly. At times |
| 1:50.0 | during the interview you might hear his dog Triumph pawn and tug in at a bone but hey that's just how it goes these |
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