<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/792347/fan_mail/new">Send us Fan Mail</a>In this episode, Matt and Steve discuss how character defects, such as fear, dishonesty, jealousy, and being transactional, can lead to problems in our relationships and our lives, and how they can trigger us to drink or use drugs. They share their personal stories and insights from working the 12 steps of AA, and how they learned to identify and overcome their character defects.<a rel="payment" href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/soberfriendspod">Support the show</a>📫 Get more honest conversations about sobriety delivered to your inbox! Subscribe to <a href='https://soberfriendspod.substack.com/'>The Sober Friends Dispatch</a>, our weekly newsletter where we go beyond the podcast to share real strategies for alcohol-free living. Join our community by clicking <a href='https://soberfriendspod.substack.com/'>here.</a>

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Matt and Steve discuss how character defects, such as fear, dishonesty, jealousy, and being transactional, can lead to problems in our relationships and our lives, and how they can trigger us to drink or use drugs. They share their personal stories and insights from working the 12 steps of AA, and how they learned to identify and overcome their character defects. Support the show 📫 Get more honest conversations about sobriety delivered to your inbox! Subscribe to The Sober Friends Dispatch, our weekly newsletter where we go beyond the podcast to share real strategies for alcohol-free living. Join our community by clicking here.

<a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/792347/fan_mail/new" rel="noopener noreferrer">Send us Fan Mail</a>In this episode, Matt and Steve discuss how character defects, such as fear, dishonesty, jealousy, and being transactional, can lead to problems in our relationships and our lives, and how they can trigger us to drink or use drugs. They share their personal stories and insights from working the 12 steps of AA, and how they learned to identify and overcome their character defects.<a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/soberfriendspod" rel="noopener noreferrer">Support the show</a>📫 Get more honest conversations about sobriety delivered to your inbox! Subscribe to <a href="https://soberfriendspod.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Sober Friends Dispatch</a>, our weekly newsletter where we go beyond the podcast to share real strategies for alcohol-free living. Join our community by clicking <a href="https://soberfriendspod.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">here.</a>

E163: Character Defects: How They Affect Our Recovery and Our Lives

The Sober Friends Podcast: Two Guys Talking RecoveryMatt and Steve have been sober for over a decade each. They still don't have it all figured out.This is a podcast about recovery - AA recovery specifically - but it's not your sponsor's recovery podcast. It's two friends talking through the stuff that actually matters:What do you DO when you're not drinking? How do you handle control issues 15 years in? Why does calling someone in recovery feel so goddamn hard? What happens when you remove alcohol but don't replace it with anything? And seriously, do you miss drinking or do you just miss the relief?Every week Matt and Steve work through these questions together - sometimes they have answers, sometimes they're figuring it out in real time, and sometimes they just need to talk it out like you do with a friend who gets it.If you're in recovery, thinking about recovery, or just trying to figure out how to live without alcohol as your coping mechanism - welcome. Grab some coffee. Let's talk. Topics: Alcoholics Anonymous, 12-step recovery, sobriety, addiction, relapse, service work, early recovery, staying sober, and everything in between.Matt and Steve work AA programs but speak only for themselves. This show isn't affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous. New episodes weekly at soberfriendspod.com

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The Sober Friends Podcast: Two Guys Talking Recovery Matt and Steve have been sober for over a decade each. They still don't have it all figured out. This is a podcast about recovery - AA recovery specifically - but it's not your sponsor's recovery podcast. It's two friends talking through the stuff that actually matters: What do you DO when you're not drinking? How do you handle control issues 15 years in? Why does calling someone in recovery feel so goddamn hard? What happens when you remove alcohol but don't replace it with anything? And seriously, do you miss drinking or do you just miss the relief? Every week Matt and Steve work through these questions together - sometimes they have answers, sometimes they're figuring it out in real time, and sometimes they just need to talk it out like you do with a friend who gets it. If you're in recovery, thinking about recovery, or just trying to figure out how to live without alcohol as your coping mechanism - welcome. Grab some coffee. Let's talk. Topics: Alcoholics Anonymous, 12-step recovery, sobriety, addiction, relapse, service work, early recovery, staying sober, and everything in between. Matt and Steve work AA programs but speak only for themselves. This show isn't affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous. New episodes weekly at soberfriendspod.com

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