March 23What you are doing requires discipline and fortitude. To wake up every day and decide to not take the easier and softer way will not be directly rewarding. There is no instant gratification in the discipline you are displaying. Fucking sucks, hu

March 22How much do we identify with who we think we are that we let it dictate our choices and behaviors? We are often so afraid in recovery of the person we might become that we rarely think about what happens if we stay the same? We hold onto these o

March 21Recovering alcoholics and addicts are the most courageous people I have ever met. Why? Because it takes tremendous courage to reach out for help. To walk into a room of strangers and talk about what is going on with you. The kind of outer courag

March 20There is a moment when you wake up after having had a drinking/using dream that is really important to pay attention to: that moment when you are startled awake and either feel terrible that you had picked up in your dream or you are so fucking

March 19Dont forget to be fucking stupid. You read that right! Dont forget to let yourself go. Be silly. Have some fun. We can get so serious sometimes that we can lose track of the joy and playfulness in life. Not everything has to have some aha mom

March 18Buy the book!Emotional sobriety? What the fuck is that? The Big Red Book of Adult Children of Alcoholics describes it as no excess tension in the body and a neutral reaction to symbolic associations and mental representations of trauma. In l

March 17When you were drinking and using, you had little freedom. Think about it. Every decision you made about where you were and/or where you were going was based around getting fucked up. Living your life under these conditions is a metaphorical shac

SummarySupport the podcast and buy the book!In this episode of SoberPod, Carl and Chelsea discuss the concept of going back to basics in recovery. The hosts read from their book, '366 Fucking Days Sober,' and delve into the question of whether

March 16Lets get real down in the dirt today. Lets go back to basics. Being addicts/alcoholics, we have a problem consuming alcohol and drugs. Yes? Once we ingest anything (liquid, pill, powder, smoke, and sometimes rectal suppository), we kick off th

March 15Some will come, and others will go. Some will stay for the long haul, and others are but the passing parade of people. The background actors in your main act. Remember: you are that person for others, too! You are essentially an extra in someo