Sober Twelve Years. Still Avoiding the Phone

About this episode

Matt and Steve discuss the challenges of recovery and emotional struggles after years of sobriety.

Send us Fan Mail Matt and Steve talk about what happens when old alcoholic thinking shows up without the alcohol. Matt shares what it has been like tapering off medication, including the dark, isolating feeling that reaching out would not help — even when he knows connection usually does. They also get into emotional overreactions, escape fantasies, family stress, broken phones, sponsor avoidance, and the uncomfortable truth that recovery still asks for action long after the drinking stops. T...

People in this episode

Host: Matt

Topics covered

• recovery
• mental health
• emotional struggles
• connection
• alcoholism
• medication tapering

Keywords

• sober
• alcoholic thinking
• medication
• emotional overreactions
• family stress
• recovery action

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