First, allow me to apologize for the sound quality! I'm just learning how to record conversations. In the first episode of BreakTime series of "Away: A Podcast For Anyone Interested In Exploring Change Through Sobriety" I chat with my sponsee and now dear friend, Susan. She shares her story and many of the insights she's gained living a sober life for the last five years. I hope you like listening to her as much as I like talking to her.

Music: The Chapman Run by Living Pulse

We’ll finish this series with “Working With Others”—really the core of the program. And, talk a little about series 3. I would welcome comments and questions about series 3.

Series 2, Episode 16: in this we finish up “Into Action.” It’s a lot about steps 10-11 which are kinda great.

Series 2, Episode 14: More of Into Action and a discussion of “I’m sorry.” As Bryan Davis once said, “Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds your apology is worthless.”

Series 2, Episode 13: in this episode we begin “Into Action” and Step 5. It may not be scary as you think. It may feel like you’re exhaling a breath you’ve been holding for a very long time. Also, I cough a few times because: springtime and asthma. Sorry. I’m too tired to edit out the coughs.

Series 2, Episode 12: In this episode we'll finish up "How It Works," which means we will also finish up looking at the big scary step 4. Spoiler alert: it's not that scary. Like everything else in the whole wide world, it's all about perspective. I promise, there is a way.

...that leads to achievement. Series 2, Episode 11: we make it through like 3 pages of How It Works! Yes that’s it! But it’s all about choosing hope, choosing to trust.

Series 2, Episode 10: How It Works, Part 1

Maybe alcohol WAS a solution, but now it’s at best a problem and more likely a crisis. So that's the first lie, the lie that alcohol will make everything better that needs to be destroyed. Identifying this lie is something we’ve been discussing throughout the last six episodes. By identifying this lie and working to overwrite the neural pathway that the lie uses, we are training ourselves to do it for future “lies.” We have to let go of our old ideas about alcohol and what it does for us. It is not a solution. It is a problem. It is not medicine. It is poison. The chances are that letting go of those old ideas will open you up to the possibility of letting go of other harmful ideas after you’ve worked on 4 and 5 and are entering into 6 and 7.

Series 2, Episode 9: in this episode we go through We Agnostics and I only get really angry twice. Recording this episode was ... exhausting so that’s all the description I can give you. lol

Series 2, Bonus Episode: Again, don’t love calling this a “bonus” episode because it’s really an exercise in acceptance and release. My thoughts can be mean and obsessive and if I don’t let them out they just get worse. Vicious cycle. Too much negative emotion. 👎🏻 I think some of you get it. Skip this one if you’re totally not in the mood for a lecture. 😂