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Listen in as Mike & Glenn intoduce a “sister” podcast – As We Understand HIM – We often get asked about OUR spiritual journey. Well, we share it….  

When things are off and you’re left feeling restless, irritable, and discontented – it might signal an emotional relapse. But how do you identify these feelings? Can you trust yourself to know them? What do you do if you’re restless, irritable and discontent? Explore these questions and listen in with Mike & Glenn as they walk through their own experiences and recovery journey.

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Book: Program For You

https://www.amazon.com/Program-You-Guide-Design-Living/dp/0894867415

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Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Is there 100% proof that sobriety can work for you? 

Recovery Research Institute says, “AA has helped countless tens of millions of individuals recover from addiction” and Stanford University tells us, “AA is the most effective path to alcohol abstinence…the fellowships help more people achieve sobriety than any therapy does.”

Listen in as Glenn and Mike talk about AA, introduce a real life case study of someone 12 months into the program, and discuss what their response is to someone who says AA doesn’t work. Sometimes it’s a matter of following AA because you have faith it will work, until you get to where you see the fact that it does work.

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Previous Step One w/ Dr. John Podcast: https://www.sober.coffee/podcast/episode/27d59b4c/bonus-drop-dr-john-1-step-one-youre-ffandcked

Previous Half Measures Podcast Ep #75: https://www.sober.coffee/podcast/episode/b8496230/half-assed-i-mean-half-measures-are-you-all-in

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Claire joins Mike & Glenn at a table for three in the coffee shop with a message: Drug use and overuse of alcohol has been glamorized in the media for a long time – but drinking is not sexy. It’s chaos and vomit. 

Claire’s mission is to glamorize recovery and she’s going big! Claire launched her apparel brand earlier this year: Rehab Studios. Inspired by Claire’s personal recovery from addiction and struggles with mental health, she designs apparel, jewelry and accessories to celebrate and talk about recovery and fight back against stigma.

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Rehab Studios: https://www.rehabstudiosny.com

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Talking about challenges in sobriety, Mike & Glenn are in the coffee shop and the conversation isn’t all unicorns and rainbows. From challenges like emotions, habits, relationships, money issues, loneliness, boredom, mental health issues and the fear or relapse – the biggest challenge for Glenn? Change. “If I wasn’t open and willing to change, then I wouldn’t have been able to take even 5 steps in this program.”

Psychic change is the change that’s going to take away your obsession and make you acknowledge cravings for what they are. Then there are physical changes. Glenn had to physically stand up off the counselors floor at some point and put his left foot in front of the right foot and say: what challenges are in front of me right now?

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For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

How is your recovery program like a chocolate chip cookie? Everyone has their own recipe that they think is best and it all has to do with the ingredients. Will those ingredients include AA, or will they include a different recovery program like Refuge Recovery?

At a table for 3 in the coffee shop talking with Tori, a substance abuse counselor, and her own experiences with Refuge Recovery. Refuge Recovery and the Buddhist path to recovery is all about the path to awakening – awakening being the end of suffering. Craving causes suffering. Addiction causes suffering.

Dive in and listen as Tori talks about Refuge Recovery, how it works, what the guiding principles are, and how it differs from AA.

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Refuge Recovery: https://www.refugerecovery.org/

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

At a table for three, Quint shares his experience with alcoholism from growing up with a father who drank, and his own road to recovery. Quint began drinking at 15 and gradually discovered anxieties and concerns would be magically misted away through a haze of beer and wine – and that started a pattern for the next 40 years.

Eventually deciding his future was more important than alcohol, Quint started his road to recovery. The first 5 years were spent trying to stop drinking with bargaining, “I’ll only drink this much” or “I’ll only drink between this hour to this hour”. The “I can outthink this” and “I can outdo this” didn’t work because sure as eggs is eggs he couldn’t do it by himself. Quint recalls his experience with alcoholism felt unique – he didn’t relate to others in AA who had flipped cars, lost their jobs, or manhandled significant others. But when he finally found the right AA group and a sponsor – that was the start of his recovery journey. 

Quint is currently leading the company Shoot You Animation & Video production with employees in Amsterdam, New York and Los Angeles. 

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ShootYou Animation: https://www.shootyou.com/understanding/

Quint on IG: https://www.instagram.com/quintboa/

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

From myth to truth, it’s a rapid fire espresso shots with Mike and Glenn. As they talk about things they’ve heard, questions from emails, inquiries from social media, Mike and Glenn fire true and false statements at each other with a little back and forth banter mixed in. It’s all about sobriety, recovery and addiction and the myths, misconceptions and truths that go with it.

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Previous Rapid Fire 6 Sober Espresso Shots podcast: https://www.sober.coffee/podcast/episode/1b0ba251/rapid-fire-6-sober-espresso-shots

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Megan is a familiar face at AA Mokena Fellowship, and with AA meetings 5 times a day, it takes a lot of volunteer hours to keep things running smoothly.  From opening the door to helping out in the community – Megan tells us that service leads to the world turning a different shade of wonderful. Service saved her life, and it started with cleaning up coffee pots, clearing tables and taking out trash.

Find out why Mike, Glenn and Megan find service work important and why they still do it today.

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AA Mokena Fellowship: https://aamokenafellowship.org/

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

How do you get undrunk quickly? Easy, it’s a math calculation – it takes an hour to eliminate .01 of alcohol in your system. But how long does it take to get sober? That’s a loaded question starting with what you mean by sober.

In the coffee shop Mike & Glenn tell us how long it takes to get undrunk, and discuss how long it takes to get truly sober where you’re living a quality rewarding life with passion and purpose. Is it less than 3 months? 1-2 years? 5-10 years?  Listen in as Mike & Glenn talk about their life experiences and answer the loaded question of how long it takes to get sober.

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Mentioned in this episode:

What Does Sober Mean? https://www.sober.coffee/podcast/episode/2a7e8632/trending-series-pt-8-what-does-sober-mean

What Is Dry Drunk? https://www.sober.coffee/podcast/episode/2232b91c/trending-series-pt-7-what-is-dry-drunk

Learning To Live As A Left-Hander: https://www.sober.coffee/podcast/episode/f6d03d4b/sobriety-learning-to-live-as-a-left-hander

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com