by Paul Churchill | Jul 27, 2015 | Podcast
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Alcoholics in general are extremely selfish and I definitely fall into this category. I never truly considered the pain I put my loved ones through during my drinking. After receiving several emails from normal drinkers who have been affected by someone who is an alcoholic, I decided to look more into this and that is where the idea of this podcast episode came from.
Shelly from Hawaii, who has nearly 3 months of sobriety, shares how she plans to be successful in recovery.
by Paul Churchill | Jul 20, 2015 | Podcast
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This podcast episode was based on the blog post from Tim Stoddard from Sober Nation called 7 Scary Statistics About Drinking and Driving.
Some of the figures came from an article from Freakonomics.
by Paul Churchill | Jul 13, 2015 | Podcast
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Here are the 10 ways to meet new friends in sobriety that Paul discusses in this podcast episode
- Contacts in your phone
- Believe it or not, that new friend or group of friends is probably already in your phone.
- In a social setting. Did I just mention the bar?
- The majority of people in a bar are normal drinkers and they won’t get behind the wheel drunk
- Getting completely dunk in bars is not cool.
- Meetups. Use the internet to find sober friends
- Sober Meet Ups
- Denver Meets up Besides Bars
- Join a 12 step program
- Volunteer
- Alcoholics are selfish and this will help us become less selfish
- Exercise in a group setting
- Take a spinning class
- 5k or 10k
- Take a chance
- Open up your community’s calendar and see what there is to offer.
- Be patient
- I went to school for over 15 years and ended up with a handful of close friends
- It may seem like spring will never come, but one day snow will melt. Your phone will ring from a person you have been trying to cultivate a new healthy sober relationship with
- Social Sport leagues –Underdogseattle
- Get on a co-ed softball or flag football team
- Be careful because some of these may beer leagues, but try to find a league that encourages fun as opposed to competition. Leagues where costumes are required. People who are too worried about drinking beer in the dugout won’t be on a team playing kickball in superhero outfits.
- You put on the sober event
- You can control the situation and who comes
- Not travel
- I have made lasting relationships with people while traveling but the problem is, they don’t live in my hometown. The focus is to meet people who live in your hometown.
by Paul Churchill | Jul 8, 2015 | Podcast
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This Recovery Elevator podcast episode is dedicated to Frank Churchill. Sobriety gave me the opportunity to be fully in the moment when visiting or speaking with my Uncle Frank who recently passed away on June 30th. This is was one of the hardest things I have dealt with, but I did not drink over it and don’t plan on drinking over it in the future.
by Paul Churchill | Jun 29, 2015 | Podcast
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In this episode, I discuss my recent challenge with a 48oz family-sized bag of Reese’s Pieces. I have always allowed myself to indulge/binge with sugar since I have heard that chocolate and sugar can be helpful in recovery but is this really the case?
The basis of this Podcast comes from an article written by Matthew Lovitt of Sober Nation called Sugar: Sobriety Friend or Foe.
I mention the Shawn Stevenson Model which is an informative website about nutrition and he has a great podcast also. Proper nutrition has been critical in my recovery.
