Sober Pod - Recovery Podcast Sober Pod

May 11

It doesn’t have to be this way. It may feel like it, but it doesn’t. You don’t ever have to drink or drug again if you don’t want to. There are many options and pathways to change. You may feel like you have tried them all. But have you? Have you tried them all? Bet you haven’t! But you have attempted to be f****d up. You have tried being stoned and on the low side of the road more often than not. So, why not try something new and not pick up? And, just for today, try something different from what you have done in the past. Today, you don’t have to do what you’ve always done if you don’t want to.

Reflections

Does it have to be this way today? Am I living a life of freedom or bondage? What has me in bondage? What allows me freedom?

Daily Challenge

Meditate for 20 minutes today. Pick a comfortable spot and set a timer. Close your eyes and breathe. It doesn’t matter what your brain does. Just keep your eyes closed and breathe until the timer goes off.




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Are you doing enough for the person/people around you? What have you done lately? Thousands of people around you would kill to have what you have, and all you can do is demand more? What the fuck is wrong with you? Give. Give. Give. Give as though your life depends on it, because it does. We don’t mean give your money or property or any other material thing, but give of yourself. Give from your heart. Give from the compassionate center of your soul. That is what is at stake from day to day. Be prepared to give what you have been given because, as some bald white guys in A.A. say, “You can only keep what you have by giving it away.”

Reflections

Where do you hold back? What can you bring to another person today to make their day brighter?

Daily Challenge

Do you sit in meetings and browse your phone? Stop that shit. Try looking each person in the eye as they speak, and really listen.




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Do you know the movie “The Matrix?” What if I told you that it didn’t matter if Neo took the red or blue pill? Why? Because no matter where Neo ends up, he will arrive with the same f****d-up brain that he started with. Just like you. No matter where you go, there you are. No amount of distance or change of surroundings will turn you into a different person. Moving to a new place or moving in with that girl/guy will not make you any different. No new jacket or $400 pair of red-soled shoes. You will still be you. It wasn’t the blue or the red pill that changed Neo; it was the choice he made to change.

Reflections

Are you making a choice to change?

Daily Challenge

If you are sure you’ve made a choice to change, what tangible things have you done to prove it?




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“If she would only understand." “If he could just stop trying to control me.” “If I only got that promotion.” “If I could have graduated high school instead of fucking up all the time.” Things would be different. Sometimes we have this “wishing disease” where we wish for things to be different and get stuck in an alternate imaginary universe on the planet of “If.” Children “wish” all the time. Bedtime stories are made of wishes and fantasies of fairy godparents coming to save children from the wicked evil-doers. But we are not children. Nobody is coming to save you. You’re it! We live on Earth, and things are what they seem no matter how often you want to “If” or “wish” them away. Instead of wishing for things to be different, have you ever thought of trying to wish for things as they are?

Reflections

If only I could wish for things as they are.

Daily Challenge

List one thing that you need to accept today to move on with your life. You don’t need to accept it. Just write it down. Work on it when the time is right.




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If anyone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would kick their ass every day. Those are fighting words that you say to yourself! Do you know that? You would never tolerate that from your family or friends, but here you sit, kicking your own ass down the block all day long, and you don’t raise a finger or fist. You don’t put up a fight at all. Why is that? Where does that loud antagonizing voice come from? In A.C.A., they call it the “Inner Critical Parent,” and, at some point in your life, you assimilated someone else’s voice and installed it in your own head. It’s your daily tormentor (root word: torture), and your tormentor has tortured you long enough. How would a friend talk to you? How does a good friend talk to you? What would you say to a good friend whose parents “tormented” them verbally all day? What words could you offer to help that friend?

Reflections

Are you being a tormentor to yourself, or are you being a friend?

Daily Challenge

Try to be your own best friend today. You just might like yourself.




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May 6



Don’t we often try to maneuver and manipulate things to meet our needs or demands? We make suggestions and say things when we know we shouldn’t make comments or hints - fuck - even a gesture can be manipulating if you’re doing it right. Looking for ways over or around the problem? Man, there are just too many ways to fuck with shit, huh? Sometimes, the hardest thing to come to grips with is the fact that we don’t have the answers or solutions. And the most important fact: it may not be up to us at all, and it may be someone else’s problem entirely. The fact that we should step the fuck back and not engage never occurs to some of us. In other words, “let it go.” Have you heard that one before?

Reflections

What are you fucking with? What is it that motivates you to put your nose where it does not belong?

Daily Challenge

Think about letting go. Here, I will help: “Let it go, let it go. Can't hold it back anymore.” Now, that song is in your motherfucking head all motherfucking day! Ha! That should help.




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