I think no matter what lexicon you use around your addiction whether you say that you're sober or clean or alcohol free or T-t total or drug free whatever you want to use.

The only thing that matters is remembering the darkness, the place you found. Throughout time great thinkers have

recognized the importance of the thoughts we have.

Quotes like garbage in, garbage out,

or you are what you think, ring true.

And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen

or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or

fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and

dampen our spirit.

But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter.

It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the

right direction, how they feed their good wolf. Every family has an origin story. One passed down through the generations. Mine happens to be a mystery involving my great-great-grandmother left behind in Sicily. I'm Joe Piazza and my new

podcast will transport you to the gorgeous island of Sicily as I traced my roots back through

a who-done-it-it-for-the-ages. Listen to the Sicilian inheritance on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts. We hope you'll enjoy this episode from the archive.

Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Catherine Gray,

who is one of very few guests to ever be on the show three times.

Maybe she'll be the first to be on four times.

We don't know what the future holds.

But Catherine Gray is a writer and author who lives in the UK. Her first book,

which we interviewed her about was The U.S. expected joy of being sober, which is so great,

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