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Many of us spend years agonizing over the question..." am I an alcoholic?" before finally admitting to ourselves that "yes, I am an alcoholic." Saying those words out loud for the first time takes a whole lot of courage...and that's just the beginning. Getting and staying sober takes a lot of work and involves changing just about everything about ourselves. It's a whole new world for us, but if we want to stay sober, we learn to embrace these changes, and we thrive. 

But what about our loved ones and our friends? How do we explain our recovery process to them? On this episode of The Bubble Hour, we will discuss ways to talk to our loved ones about our recovery process and why it needs to be the number one priority in our lives...even above them.

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