RE 402: What to Expect
Recovery Elevator
Paul
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🗓️ 31 October 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Today we have Emily. She is 34, from Cincinnati, OH and took her last drink on Aug 27th, 2022.
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Highlights from Paul
All emotions are created equal and you need them all equally. Here is why. In the world of duality we need opposites for defining purposes.
I want to tie this into recovery one more time. Do not gauge your recovery success on your emotions. You will feel them all. Yes, do more of what you enjoy, but thank the other side of that for telling you what you don't enjoy.
[11:35] Emily is married and has 2 little boys, ages 5 and 8. She runs a bar in downtown Cincinnati. Emily enjoys being crafty and making stuff.
Emily doesn't remember seeing any unhealthy alcohol behavior in her home while growing up. Emily was 13 the first time she got drunk. 20 years old and in college Emily got her first bartending job. She met her husband working in the bar in Cincinnati and they have now been together for 13 years.
After having her first baby Emily got out of bartending and into alcohol sales. This escalated her drinking. She then got pregnant with her 2nd and went back to bartending after that. As her kids got older there was more drinking and drugs…while still getting up and taking care of her kids and responsibilities.
January 2021 Emily quit drinking for 5 months. This year Emily changed jobs, started working at a new bar with good friends. Emily was approaching 1 month sober at the time of her interview.
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Kris's Summary
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| 0:00.0 | Recovery elevator episode 402 really this time around I feel like something has just |
| 0:05.4 | clicked differently like I don't I like I always knew that I wasn't by not |
| 0:11.8 | drinking I wasn't depriving myself but it never really felt that way like |
| 0:18.0 | this yeah that should work mix down yeah keep going yo yo mix down |
| 0:28.1 | three four yo yo wiki wiki mix down there we go seven eight wiki |
| 0:35.2 | mix down guys in the house haha I love it wiki wiki mix down there we go three four |
| 0:42.7 | welcome to the Recovery elevator podcast my name is Paul Churchill and I'm so |
| 0:47.3 | excited to be here with you today on today's episode we have Emily she's 34 |
| 0:52.3 | years old from Cincinnati Ohio and took her last drink on August 28th |
| 0:56.8 | 2022 great job Emily listeners happy Halloween I can tell you a drink won't |
| 1:02.6 | make your overall Halloween experience better perhaps some listeners have |
| 1:06.6 | already reached this conclusion since most of the festivities went down on |
| 1:10.0 | Friday or Saturday night and I say that with no judgment at all as I have |
| 1:14.6 | been there yes Halloween is usually tied to a cocktail or 20 but here's another |
| 1:19.8 | way to look at it I think Halloween is an embodiment of rule 22 which is our |
| 1:24.6 | internal rule here at Recovery Elevator that says to never take yourself too |
| 1:28.3 | seriously and I think dressing up as a cell phone a zombie firefighter or the |
| 1:33.0 | state of Utah is a good way to do that I think my best costume ever was when I |
| 1:37.5 | went as the state of Utah in 2004 I was walking around Newport Beach |
| 1:41.5 | California and I remember two police officers stopping getting out of their |
| 1:45.9 | car and taking a picture with me they said it was the best costume they had seen |
| 1:49.5 | that night I personally am very proud of that giant cardboard creation okay |
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