Sunday, July 26, 2015

Rebroadcast: "It's Not Just A Drinking Disease, It's A Thinking Disease" (and an announcement)

ANNOUNCEMENT:

In order to protect our own "bubbles", the co-hosts of The Bubble Hour are taking the month of August to refresh, renew and focus on balance and self-care.  We will resume in mid-September with a fresh new format!


Until then, we will be rebroadcasting some of our most popular and/or informative episodes.  Last Sunday was a rebroadcast of our show:  "It's Not Just A Drinking Disease, It's A Thinking Disease".

Getting sober isn't just about putting down the drink or the drugs, it's also about understanding the way our brains work, how we think, how we process.  
In this episode we talk about how we cultivate awareness of our thought patterns, and learn how to change the way we think so we can continue to grow and learn in recovery.

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Sunday, July 12, 2015

Speaker Discussion "Meeting" with Greg

The heart of every show is our guests and their recovery stories.  Everyone who participates on the show is a volunteer, whose willingness to honestly share their experience, strength, and hope helps keeps us all sober.  

So this episode is an open format episode in the style of a speaker/discussion meeting, where one guest shares their recovery story.   We are thrilled to welcome Greg to the show!  Greg shared his experience, strength and hope with us.

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Sunday, July 5, 2015

Re-Broadcast: How To Talk To Family & Friends About Your Recovery

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. Many people join support groups where people suggest we go to a meeting every day? Get a sponsor? Believe in a power greater than ourselves? Let go of our resentments? Practice acceptance, patience and tolerance? Practice self-care? 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? Many of us have hidden our disease so well that our loved ones had no idea we were drinking too much. Some will tell us to just stop. Some will suggest we only drink on the weekends or on special occasions. Even the ones who pleaded with us to stop drinking may find it difficult to understand our recovery process. 

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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