March 31Some of us, if not all, spent our drinking careers in a stop-and-start mode. We were apprehensive, insecure, and hesitant to do anything outside our comfort zones. Staying the same was the status quo, and it was fucking preferable. But with it c

Visit PaulSummersJr.com to learn more about Paul's Book, Hide and Seek - A Dad's Journey from Soulless Addiction to Sole Custody. Buy our 366 Days F***ing Sober Book. - Visit soberpod.com SummaryIn this episode, Carl and Paul discuss Paul&#39

March 30 - Buy the book!Here is something to consider: plan to take two days off where YOU get away from it all this summer. Where you do nothing but wander in nature, walk trails, think thoughts, and only speak with the occasional stranger. In the past

March 29 - Buy the book and read it for yourself. Are you ready to hear the message? How about now? Right now. The road to recovery is varied. There are more ways to do this than there are people in the Universe. Some of us come here with nothing, and o

March 28There were days when I would drink for hours and just let the day take me. Wasting so much time and feeling so sick. Did you ever do that? Or maybe you were wiggin out while you did a few lines and peeked at the shadow people in the trees thr

March 27You are not that essential. No, really. Look around you. There are a lot of people in this world. Your ego loves putting yourself at the center of the Universe for your own protection and wants to make you feel necessary and so fucking important

March 26Oh! Shit! That pink cloud! Remember that shit? It was like the world went from black and white to color overnight. The grass was greener, the sky bluer, and we suddenly felt the Universe get bigger as we got smaller. Finally! We felt our place i

March 25Nothing will go as you planned, I promise you. The best-laid plans will have errors, miscalculations, faults, and follies. Something will happen where you have to change course and adjust. I heard a saying by Jimmy Dean early in recovery: "

March 24When we drank/used, some of us vaguely understood a Higher Power. We viewed God as something/someone we only reached out to when things got tough. In jail, we hit our knees and begged to get out of this one and promised that we would never do th

BUY THE BOOK! SummaryIn this conversation, Carl and Chelsea discuss the concept of identity and the fear of change in recovery. They explore the idea of holding onto old identities and personas, and the need to let go of them in order to grow and chang