RE 68: The Stigma is Even Worse for These Alcoholics
Recovery Elevator
Paul
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🗓️ 6 June 2016
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Matt, sober since 12/11/15, who is the 4th lawyer to be interviewed on this podcast, shares how leaving a law firm to start a private law practice while drinking, can be tumultuous; to say the least.
I got the idea for this podcast from the a article I recently read in the Fix called My Top Five Female Recovery Memoirs by Regina Walker .
Statistically, women don't recover from alcoholism at nearly the rate men do. A study in Germany concluded that alcoholism was twice as fatal for women as for men. The women in the German study with alcohol addiction were five times more likely to die during the 14-year period of the study than women in the general population.
As a culture, we often judge women with addiction issues far more harshly than we do with men. Alcohol advertising often portrays men drinking as a bonding experience, while portraying women who drink as sexual predators or, at the very least, sexually objectified ("if she is going to get drunk, she is asking for it"). Though it's difficult for anyone with a substance abuse issue to ask for help, it is that much more difficult for a woman, who often bears an additional, gender specific stigma.
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| 0:00.0 | Recurial later episode 68. |
| 0:03.0 | Didn't have to get that bad, but I was so stubborn, and by the time, and once I got physically |
| 0:08.2 | dependent on it, it was just like air for me. the Recovery Elevator Subriety Tracker on my phone. I have been sober for one year, eight months, three weeks, one day, 49 minutes and 32, 33, 34 seconds. |
| 0:32.2 | On today's podcast, we've got Matt. |
| 0:34.4 | He's been sober since December 11, 2015. |
| 0:37.6 | He's actually the fourth lawyer we've had on the podcast and he's from the Dakotas. Before we get any further, let's learn about Cafe R.E. |
| 0:46.0 | Before I got sober, I felt alone. |
| 0:48.0 | It felt like I was the only one in the whole world who found it extremely difficult to stop drinking once I had started. |
| 0:54.4 | With Cafe R.E. I now know I'm not alone. In fact, there are so many people all around this world |
| 0:59.0 | just like me. In Cafe R.E, for $10 a month, I get access to a private unsearchable Facebook group where I can connect with other like-minded individuals, |
| 1:07.6 | meet with them face to face in several weekly live webinars and meetings, |
| 1:11.4 | I can get paired with an accountability partner who has a similar |
| 1:14.2 | sobriety date as mine, I can attend in-person meetups and attend exclusive sober trips to places |
| 1:19.2 | like Costa Rica. |
| 1:20.8 | If there's one thing I've learned in sobriety, it's that I can't do this alone. |
| 1:24.0 | Go to recovery elevator.com and use the promo code elevator for your first month free. |
| 1:29.0 | Again, use the promo code elevator when signing up for your first month free. |
| 1:34.3 | If you'd like to support the Recovery Elevator podcast, you can do so by shopping on Amazon. |
| 1:38.8 | Use the link Recovery elevator.com forward slash Amazon, make all your purchases there there and that's all you got to do |
| 1:45.7 | I'd like to thank Thai who edits the podcast for sending me an article which gave me the idea |
| 1:51.0 | for today's podcast. |
| 1:53.0 | It's an article in the fix by Regina Walker |
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