SP 273: Battle Tested Recovery with Mark Gagarin
The SHAIR Recovery Podcast
Omar Pinto
4.8 • 561 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2020
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Today we have Mark Gagarin on The SHAIR Podcast. He is the host of the Battle Tested, a podcast about triumph over adversity. It's not only about the war with addiction. It's about showing up as our best selves to every challenge we face in our lives.
Mark believes that everything we're experiencing can be used to benefit people. When we're faced with opposition, there is always opportunity to serve. There's always a lesson to learn, and the good parts and bad parts all have purpose as long as we use them to help someone else.
Get ready to experience battle tested recovery!
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| 0:00.0 | And I got to that place where I finally was willing to surrender that. |
| 0:05.3 | Everything starts to become new, reconsidering everything, the way I look at everything in life. |
| 0:11.4 | And so that first year was I ended up living at that sober living for actually for a year. |
| 0:18.1 | And it was slow, man. |
| 0:19.2 | Like when I think about, you know, |
| 0:21.1 | a life and addiction is like a microwaveable experience where things are just happening |
| 0:27.1 | and you're getting what you want all the time and you're getting it fast. I feel like |
| 0:31.2 | recovery is like a crockpot experience. You know what I mean? It's like it, |
| 0:35.9 | it's such a different experience because, you know, when you, oh my gosh, but when you, when you eat the meat from from a crock pot, like the meat is so tender and it shreds open and it's, it's actually delicious. But if you were to take that same meat and throw it in the microwave, be rubbery, and it would just not taste that good. |
| 0:57.4 | And so that's what I feel like recovery was like for me when I first got sober was it was really allowing, learning how to allow a life to happen in its own organic way. |
| 1:07.5 | That was Mark Gagrin, and this is the Share Podcast. |
| 1:16.9 | Getting sober is one thing. Staying sober is another. In recovery, the most important |
| 1:22.7 | ingredient to long-term sobriety is community and connection. Share is not only a recovery podcast, it is a global sobriety network. |
| 1:33.3 | Join me each week as we connect with people from all over the world who will share with you |
| 1:38.6 | their inspirational journey of recovery. |
| 1:41.2 | Welcome to the Share Podcast, Sobriety Network. |
| 1:52.0 | Hey everybody and welcome to another episode of the Share podcast and today we have Mark |
| 1:57.5 | Gagarin joining us on the show and this is one of my favorite episodes. |
| 2:03.2 | We had such an amazing conversation, and really what you'll come to find out during this episode |
| 2:09.9 | is just how Mark's journey of recovery really was. |
| 2:14.4 | Battle tested. |
| 2:15.6 | No need to take notes on this one. |
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