All right, men, welcome to the Man Talks show. I'm Connor Beaton, and today, after popular demand,

I'm going to be talking about my year of sobriety. And I'm going to share a little bit about why I

went completely sober, why I decided to just try on sobriety as a, to see how it fits, i guess you could say um but i'm also going to talk

about not just why i did it but what the results were what i was really surprised about

and share a little bit about how i got through the hard times because there definitely were

hard times where i wanted to have a drink or you, smoke a joint or something like that to just kind of

like mellow out and, and chill. Here's where I want to start. I've never really considered myself

to be an addict, but I certainly have a more addictive personality. And I'm someone who has addiction in his family. You know,

I'm a child of an alcoholic. I've seen alcoholism be pervasive in my family. I know friends

who have struggled with alcohol. And so I'm very keenly aware that there's this line that we can cross,

oftentimes unconsciously, into this unhealthy relationship with alcohol specifically. And being

somebody who has been addicted and had addictive behaviors and addictive, addictive patterns in his life, right,

with various different things, with porn and food and social media and alcohol in my early

20s. And there's even periods in my life where I definitely smoke too much weed, you know,

like people say that weed isn't addictive, that marijuana isn't

addictive, but it's like, you can, I've known enough people now to know that there are, there are

certainly a behavioral pattern or a habit that people can get into where they can be smoking

too much weed, you know, where they're waking up in the morning. Like, I remember a guy that

I went to university with, and he was basically high all day long, you know, like he would get up in the morning and smoke his bong and go to class and then, you know, go to, go to rehearsal afterwards. And he would just be high all day. And it's like, well, that's probably a problem. You know, if that was alcohol, we would call that person a functional alcoholic.

And so there are people that use marijuana in that way.

Anyway, the point is, I didn't choose to be sober for a year.

And I'm carrying this all.

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