Sober.Coffee Podcast (Mike R and Glenn H)

Mike and Glenn check in on their 3 year anniversary of the podcast and talk sponsorship, service, prayer and forgiveness.

Sober.Coffee Website
Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting Studio
Hosted on Transistor.fm

Bonus Drop: Paul G - Director at Trinity Sober Living (Chicagoland) - Joins Mike & Glenn in the Sober.Coffee shop sharing his story of Experience, Strength & Hope.

What is the 13th step of AA? It’s not a positive next step after #12, in fact it’s a bad rep for AA. Mike & Glenn discuss the 13th step, bad behavior in AA, and steps to avoid it starting with building a wall or a healthy boundary around your sober zone.

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Podcaster Gary Menkes joins Mike and Glenn at the coffee shop to talk about new beginnings and other topics related to sobriety. 

Join Mike and Glenn in the sober coffee shop as they share their experience, strength and hope and chat about FEELINGS... Are they facts ? Should we act on them ? Let's explore.

As Glenn notches another sobriety milestone, the boys discuss "ringing the bell." 

Join Mike & Glenn in the Sober Coffee shop as we have a table for 3 with Amanda E. White !! We explore Amanda’s story of Experience, Strength & Hope along with the “Value of Therapy” in Sobriety…. AND, we explore her book (guidebook) “Not Drinking Tonight”. A strong episode exploring solutions !!

Mike, Glenn and Sarah (sarahsandidge.com) chat about "what's next" -in life and in love.  

Mike and Glenn discuss measuring sobriety through inventory, planning, execution, disciplines, and accountability through transparency.  Pulling apart page 86 of the AA Big Book, they talk about life into action.

It’s a sober new year. But what does that look like? Join Mike & Glenn in the coffee shop as they discuss what their game plan is for the new year. With a trip down memory lane and a look at the past, each discusses how sobriety has changed their new years - from removing the remorse, regret and anxiety, to looking at the past as a scorecard and making plans for the year ahead, trying to point the ship in the right direction.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Wedding Bells podcast: https://www.sober.coffee/podcast/episode/1c66c129/wedding-bells-embracing-the-landslide

Purpose Driven Life: https://www.amazon.com/Purpose-Driven-Life-Rick-Warren/dp/0310205719

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Resentment is bitter indignation and a negative reaction to perceived mistreatment. Every time you see something, or hear something, it gets processed through your filter. You’re either going to process it as a personal assault on your pride or ego - or you will have acceptance.

Talking about emotional perception and the role it plays in resentment, Mike & Glenn discuss resentment in addiction and in recovery. What fuels it? How does it start? And more importantly, ways to combat resentments, ways to live so you don’t pile them up - and when they do come, ways to dissect and diffuse them.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Big Book of AA: https://www.aa.org/the-big-book

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Mike and Glenn grab their favorite table and dive into more listener questions. The most recent one is... "Why do I need to wait a year.... before I, change jobs, start a relationship. break off a relationship, etc." What's so magical about the year? Sober.Coffee loves listener questions - Or just say HI !! Email: Podcast@Sober.Coffee

How is your recovery program like a chocolate chip cookie? Everyone has their own recipe that they think is best and it all has to do with the ingredients. Will those ingredients include AA, or will they include a different recovery program like Refuge Recovery?

At a table for 3 in the coffee shop talking with Tori, a substance abuse counselor, and her own experiences with Refuge Recovery. Refuge Recovery and the Buddhist path to recovery is all about the path to awakening - awakening being the end of suffering. Craving causes suffering. Addiction causes suffering.

Dive in and listen as Tori talks about Refuge Recovery, how it works, what the guiding principles are, and how it differs from AA.

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In this episode:

Refuge Recovery: https://www.refugerecovery.org/

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Enjoy having Lynda back in the Sober Coffee Shop as she does a deeper dive on "Sober Solutions"

Steve G joins Sober.Coffee at a table for three and gives us a glimpse into his life and how he found sobriety. A sneak peek - it took losing everything over a 20 month period, being homeless and living in the back of a Jeep Renegade, then finding himself in a surprise intervention to get Steve on the path to recovery. 

Now, 30 years sober, Steve still goes to a lot of meetings. Why? Because nothing will so much ensure immunity from drinking as intense work with other alcoholics. Besides sponsoring others, going to meetings, and being available to meet for coffee - Steve focuses on sober living, and is the Executive Director for RCOSA, a sober living community in Chicago.

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Mentioned in this episode:

RCOSA: https://www.rcosa.org/

Blue October Home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJTMBGFJVkk&feature=youtu.be

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Being stuck sucks. And yet it feels like the default status for many of us.... Tommy Carreras from "Done with Stuck" joins Mike and Glenn to discuss practical approaches to mental challenges and provides access to "Recovery Rhythms" to listeners. Get your free Recovery Rhythms guide at https://donewithstuck.com/sobercoffee

Join Mike & Glenn in the coffee shop as they share their Experience, Strength & Hope focused on Step 11 - "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God - as we understand Him - Praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out"

At a table for 3, Karen joins Mike & Glenn to talk about sponsors in the 12 steps. What is a sponsor? How do you pick a sponsor? How do you fire a sponsor? What about paid sober coaches? What benefits have you received from being a sponsor?

Join Karen, Mike & Glenn as they get real in their discussion of sponsors, the value of sponsorship, and talk about their own journey along the 12 steps.

If you know someone who needs to hear this episode, share it with them!

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

One of the frequent questions that Mike & Glenn get asked is... "What's it like to go to an AA meeting" ? We know how hard it is to walk into the rooms for the first time - So we break the ice for you as we invite some of our AA friends and walk through a "newcomer" meeting. Hello, My Name is Tom and I'm an Alcoholic....

Author Gigi Langer joins the boys to talk about her extraordinary book Worry Less NOW.

Sober.Coffee Website
Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting Studio
Hosted on Transistor.fm

If you’re 10% listening and 90% thinking about what to say next, you’re not living in the moment. Join Mike & Glenn as they discuss what it means to live in the moment. It’s amazing the library of tools and references you can go back to if you stay present in the moment - focused, paying attention, listening, absorbing and inputting things into your mental library.

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Mike and Glenn dig into Values and Principles.  With a bent on relapse prevention, they discuss the weight of living outside of True North.  

Pete, from the FaceBook group "Sober Revolution," joins Mike and Glenn to share his story.  With the weight of alcohol and drug abuse lifted, Pete works a program of discipline, focus, and drive.  His page, a community coming together to support and challenge one another to create a Sober Revolution in people's lives, has been around for six years and shares our mission: to help one today.

Mike & Glenn grab their favorite table in the Sober.Coffee Shop where they explore their Experience, Strength & Hope and the value of using a Therapist in Sobriety

Success in getting on the sober path is surrender. At the coffee shop, Mike & Glenn discuss what surrender and struggle look like when you don’t surrender, anti-surrender, and how it’s like boiling a frog.

How do you boil a frog? ‘Boiling the frog’ is referring to the premise that if you stick a frog in boiling water, he jumps out immediately. Put him in warm water then raise up the water temperature a little at a time, he doesn’t notice - then he’s boiled. Alcoholism is progressive, it gets worse and worse and worse. It’s like turning the temperature up on the water the frog is swimming in.

Glenn talks about the recovery journey of a gentleman he sponsored in AA who started with an attitude of anti-surrender - and the pain, suffering, refusal and ego that accompanied the anti-surrender.

After listening to this episode, jump into the next one where Glenn talks about the same person - but later in his journey when he discovers true surrender.

For more about this podcast:

- Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

- Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

- Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

- In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Is there 100% proof that sobriety can work for you? 

Recovery Research Institute says, “AA has helped countless tens of millions of individuals recover from addiction” and Stanford University tells us, “AA is the most effective path to alcohol abstinence…the fellowships help more people achieve sobriety than any therapy does.”

Listen in as Glenn and Mike talk about AA, introduce a real life case study of someone 12 months into the program, and discuss what their response is to someone who says AA doesn’t work. Sometimes it’s a matter of following AA because you have faith it will work, until you get to where you see the fact that it does work.

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In this episode:

Previous Step One w/ Dr. John Podcast: https://www.sober.coffee/podcast/episode/27d59b4c/bonus-drop-dr-john-1-step-one-youre-ffandcked

Previous Half Measures Podcast Ep #75: https://www.sober.coffee/podcast/episode/b8496230/half-assed-i-mean-half-measures-are-you-all-in

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Join Mike & Glenn in the sober coffee shop as they kick off a series exploring alternatives to AA. As Mike says, “We are pro-sobriety”. John joins to share about SOS - Secular Organizations for Sobriety (SOS) is a nonprofit network of autonomous, non-professional local groups, dedicated solely to helping individuals achieve and maintain sobriety/abstinence from alcohol and drug addiction, food addiction and more.

You can call it a slip…but that’s bullshit. It’s relapse. Mike and Glenn are in the coffee shop talking about relapse. While Mike has stayed on the recovery path, Glenn was known as the relapse king before he found AA. Listen in for real talk about a serious threat to recovery.

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Mike & Glenn are excited to share the Sober Coffee shop with Tara - The founder of Keep Coming Back Podcast. Tara's objective is to reach the Alcoholic who still suffers - connecting with AA Speakers who share their story of recovery - "Speaker Tapes" for today's generation!! www.keepcomingback.net

Friend in the house! It’s a table for 3 today with Claudia joining Mike and Glenn in the coffee shop sharing her story of experience, strength and hope. Claudia shares that you are never too old to get sober - she started her recovery journey at 50.

Claudia didn’t have alcoholic parents, she came from a comfortable family and always had good grades, was thoughtful of others and sometimes a shy girl. But at 26 she found herself divorced without the confidence or emotional sobriety she needed and was navigating life half-heartedly - looking for people, places and things to bring her back security. She started dealing with daily life with a drink. It wasn’t until her second DUI and a night in jail that she knew she was ready to stop drinking.

If you know someone who needs to hear this episode, share it with them!

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

God - As we understand Him.... What if we don't ?? Cary joins Mike & Glenn to chat about her lack of understanding about God - Still searching for understanding - Listen in as there are ways to win and stay sober even thought we don't have the God thing all figured out.

At a table for three, Quint shares his experience with alcoholism from growing up with a father who drank, and his own road to recovery. Quint began drinking at 15 and gradually discovered anxieties and concerns would be magically misted away through a haze of beer and wine - and that started a pattern for the next 40 years.

Eventually deciding his future was more important than alcohol, Quint started his road to recovery. The first 5 years were spent trying to stop drinking with bargaining, “I’ll only drink this much” or “I’ll only drink between this hour to this hour”. The “I can outthink this” and “I can outdo this” didn’t work because sure as eggs is eggs he couldn’t do it by himself. Quint recalls his experience with alcoholism felt unique - he didn’t relate to others in AA who had flipped cars, lost their jobs, or manhandled significant others. But when he finally found the right AA group and a sponsor - that was the start of his recovery journey. 

Quint is currently leading the company Shoot You Animation & Video production with employees in Amsterdam, New York and Los Angeles. 

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In this episode:

ShootYou Animation: https://www.shootyou.com/understanding/

Quint on IG: https://www.instagram.com/quintboa/

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Mike and Glenn take some time to discuss Trust and how the omission of facts bends the truth. They share that they fear the small weights of dishonesty as they can pile up and become risks in sobriety.   

Do you have relationships that are hurting your efforts to sobriety? Over a cup of coffee, Glenn shares his catalyst to moving towards sobriety - starting by getting out of a strenuous relationship because he was trying to get sober on a foundation that shook. 

Dr. Henry Cloud, in his book “Never Go Back: 10 Things You'll Never Do Again” gives this advice: do the hard thing. When you recognize you’re in a situation where you’re back-and-forth, back-and-forth - do the hard thing and get out of that situation. Your life is going to suck for six months. But at the six month mark you’ll look back and say “my life is so much better”.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Song: Never Go Back Again by Fleetwood Mac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HM6FrSitvc

Book: Never Go Back by Dr Henry Cloud: https://www.amazon.com/Never-Go-Back-Things-Youll/dp/1451669313/

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com/

Talking about challenges in sobriety, Mike & Glenn are in the coffee shop and the conversation isn’t all unicorns and rainbows. From challenges like emotions, habits, relationships, money issues, loneliness, boredom, mental health issues and the fear or relapse - the biggest challenge for Glenn? Change. “If I wasn’t open and willing to change, then I wouldn’t have been able to take even 5 steps in this program.”

Psychic change is the change that’s going to take away your obsession and make you acknowledge cravings for what they are. Then there are physical changes. Glenn had to physically stand up off the counselors floor at some point and put his left foot in front of the right foot and say: what challenges are in front of me right now?

If you know someone who needs to hear this episode, share it with them!

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Join Mike & Glenn in the Sober.Coffee Shop where they dig in on how, in society. "Asking for Help" is deemed a weakness... BUT, In Sobriety, it's the STRONGEST thing you can do !!

Great to have Lynda back in the Sober Coffee Shop as we chat through "Sponsorships" in sobriety (Sponsees and Sponsors)

Matt C joins Mike and Glenn at the coffee shop for this special pre-thanksgiving day chat.  

While "Surrender" is a great Cheap Trick song... It's also a KEY to Sobriety !! Listen in as Lynda joins Mike and Glenn to chat about the value of surrendering...

Claire joins Mike & Glenn at a table for three in the coffee shop with a message: Drug use and overuse of alcohol has been glamorized in the media for a long time - but drinking is not sexy. It’s chaos and vomit. 

Claire’s mission is to glamorize recovery and she’s going big! Claire launched her apparel brand earlier this year: Rehab Studios. Inspired by Claire’s personal recovery from addiction and struggles with mental health, she designs apparel, jewelry and accessories to celebrate and talk about recovery and fight back against stigma.

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In this episode:

Rehab Studios: https://www.rehabstudiosny.com

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Mike and Glenn take out the big table in the coffee shop, and "the girl gang"—Kim, Elizabeth, Katie, and Jackie—join in to chat about sobriety, community, and accountability.  It's a great reminder that "it works."

Author Derek Castleman joins Mike and Glenn at the coffee shop to explore the teachings of the Stoics.  

Sober pal Elizabeth joins Mike and Glenn in part one of a two-part series.  Part one features her story - her experience, strength, and hope.  

Mike and Glenn take on 6'sh sober shots in rapid-fire fashion.  

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Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting Studio
Hosted on Transistor.fm

Join Mike & Glenn as they share a table of three with Lynn who shares her story of Experience, Strength and Hope on the sober path.

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Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting
Hosted on Transistor.fm

We love engaging and getting questions from listeners. In this episode, Mike & Glenn do a "Rapid Fire" session focusing on 4 questions about "all things sobriety". Feel free to connect with us with questions or just say "HEY" - Email: Podcast@Sober.Coffee

Join Mike and Glenn as they chat at the sober coffee shop about what it takes to "Get It"... Including action steps to go "Get It" !

Table for 3 as Karen joins in the Sober Coffee shop sharing her experience, strength and hope on how to avoid "Triggers" and "Traps"... Especially in early sobriety.

Glenn tears apart steps 8 and 9 in real-time, challenging all to get after the amends process.  With timing and sponsor support, we can open the floodgates of fabulousness.  

Karen joins Mike & Glenn in the Sober Coffee Shop exploring the value and benefit of "Forgiveness" in sobriety.

Table for 3 in the Sober Coffee Shop as Karen joins to explore the importance of "Cleaning House" in Sobriety - Mentally, Emotionally & Physically.

Glenn and Mike chat about expectations, people-pleasing, and managing resentments.  

Bonus Drop - Table for 3 as Lindsay joins Mike & Glenn at the sober coffee shop to share her story of Experience, Strength & Hope

Excited to have Richard Jensen join us in the Sober.Coffee shop - Sharing his story of experience, strength & hope. Starting as a wrestler as a skinny, freckled kid, Richard quickly got caught up in the grips of addiction which led him to prison and ultimately homelessness. At 37, after a decision to get sober and rebuild his life through wrestling, Rich, at the age of 37, entered college and joined the wrestling team. After a year of losses and brutalizing his body, Richard set his sights on a national wrestling championship title - which he achieved in 2016 !! Check out all of Richard's story online at www.beachampioninlife.com What a powerful story.

Mike & Glenn explore how to stay on the sober path.... It's easier to stay on that to get back on...

The foundation to building a life in recovery doesn’t always start with lofty goals and high expectations. Sometimes slow and steady builds the sturdiest foundation. The question “how are you doing now that it’s the middle of the year?” starts an open conversation about what the middle of the year and the middle of recovery looks like for Mike  and Glenn - and just how much it has to do with how they started. 

The answer to the question of how you are doing depends on whether you’re comparing now to the start of the year, or the start of recovery, or even the start of the yesterday. Sure, someone might be doing great compared to before sobriety, but Mike & Glenn suggest that how you find growth is to ask, “are you doing better today than yesterday?” It’s part of being patient, and if you are thinking about changing your lifestyle, know that recovery is going to take time. It’s important to let it play out, be patient, and lay that foundation.

If you know someone who needs to hear this episode, share it with them!

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Bonus Drop: Join Mike and Glenn in the Sober Coffee Shop as they unpack the all to familiar story of a RELAPSE as shared by an Instagram follower. Thanks @YourSoberPal Laura for your share !!

Curtis and Danni had two very different journeys to recovery. While Danni’s tough childhood was filled with abuse and exposure to alcohol and drugs, Curtis was surrounded by social drinkers. Each shares their experiences from the first drink to how they found sobriety, and how they ultimately met each other and embarked on a business venture to create The Sober app. 

The Sober app is a safe space where anyone suffering with addiction, or wanting to stay connected, can go to find recovery tools or get help virtually. From meetings and education to resources and community, it can be found on the app. 

If you know someone who needs to hear this episode, share it with them!

For more about Danni, Curtis & The Sober app:

Danni on IG: https://www.instagram.com/sober_socially/

The Sober on IG: https://www.instagram.com/thesober.app/

The Sober website: thesober.passion.io

Download The Sober app on Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.po1n27xul1xr.p3l6x32ygapp

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Mike & Glenn sit down in the coffee shop to discuss the signs and symptoms of drug addiction. Are they experts? No. But Mike shares that drugs are part of his story of recovery. With almost everyone he knows, they know someone who has a tragic addiction to Fentanyl or Opioids. 

Knowing the signs and symptoms to look for can help loved ones recognize a problem, and Sober.Coffee has collected a list of physical and behavioral signs of drug addiction. Keep in mind, some of these symptoms - like depression - might not be a drug addiction. But if you’re thinking it - pay attention to it.

Ultimately, if you think a loved one has a drug addiction, know that you cannot fix someone else’s drug problem. You can find resources for you:

• Al-Anon
• Individual Therapy
• Get information about Interventions
• Contact sober.coffee and we can help point you to the right resources

If you know someone who needs to hear this episode, share it with them!

Mentioned in this episode:

Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: Dial 9-8-8

Want more clinical information about Signs of Drug Addiction?

Visit Care Addiction Center’s Resources For Recovery Blog:

https://www.careaddiction.com/edu/signs-of-drug-addiction

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Special Guest Claudia joins the boys, and they talk about life after abstinence and how to keep themselves on track.  Awareness - paying attention to the "check engine light"

Glenn shares his Experience, Strength & Hope with his recovery process - "It was not a light switch" - Listen as Glenn outlines how he views sobriety as learning to live life "As a Left-Hander"

Glenn and Mike welcome in CJ, the professional restaurateur/ server extraordinaire who shares up his hope one post at a time.  

Kyle & Josh are in the coffee shop today talking Silly Sips Coffee! Friends since 7th grade, both Kyle and Josh are on their own journey to recovery. What does that have to do with coffee? When Kyle quit drinking, coffee became his go-to beverage of choice. With an opportunity to start a business with Josh, they chose coffee - and giving back.

Silly Sips Coffee donates 10% of profits to Child Mind Institute, a non-profit organization that supports kids and provides resources and tools for children who struggle with mental health such as depression, anxiety and more. It’s personal for Kyle as his struggle with alcohol began by self medicating with alcohol to curb his own anxiety. Josh as well - he admits he could have used this kind of help when he was younger.

Listen in to their story and see how the Silly Sips Coffee movement is growing!

In this episode:

Silly Sips Coffee: https://sillysipscoffee.com/

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

In Julianna’s story of experience, strength and hope, she shares with Mike & Glenn the cracks and things she is repairing in her life - and she’s repairing them with beauty, much like the art of kintsugi. An ancient Japanese art for restoring ceramics, kintsugi highlights broken cracks with streams of gold and lacquer. Once repaired, it becomes a unique piece of beauty outshining the original.

In this episode:

Book by Annie Grace, This Naked Mind: https://thisnakedmind.com/this-naked-mind
Previous podcast episode: Love Story - Bruce & Karen: https://www.sober.coffee/podcast/episode/214bdf07/a-love-story-part-1-bruce-and-karen

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Sober.Coffee Celebrates 1 YEAR…. #70 Episodes…. Join us at the Sober Coffee Shop as folks join to say hey and chat about Sobriety !! Thanks for Listening. Season 2 is being teed up !!

In this episode Glenn talks about mindset and the shift he experienced when he learned to ‘serve the coffee’. In the past, everything he did he could watch it turn around and benefit him in the future. It was a transaction. It was also bullshit.

Serving The Coffee is a mindset of serving others and thinking of yourself last. Serving quietly means no expectation of accolades. You do it when you don’t feel like it. You do it even if you’re angry with the other person. It sets the tone for the day. Research shows that those who consistently help others experience less depression, greater calm, fewer pains and better health.

Glenn & Mike challenge you to do one thing for somebody else. Just try it. Serve the coffee.

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com/

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Mike & Glenn are back in the Sober.Coffee Shop exploring their Experience, Strength & Hope surrounding Meditation - And the VALUE it has with their Sober program. While prayer is a channel to talk to your Higher Power... Meditation is a great channel to Listen...

Karen's Story - A friend from the rooms joins Mike & Glenn to share her Experience, Strength & Hope - Come listen in.

Listen in as Mike& Glenn Welcome Sara Tucker Howe at the Sober Coffee Shop. Sara brings her story of experience, strength & hope. Www.saratuckerhowe.com

Paul joins Mike & Glenn in the Sober.Coffee shop and outlines the value of studying the Big Book instead of just reading it. Listen to Paul as he flash rolls key elements of the Big Book.

Special Guest Lisa Boucher joins Mike & Glenn in the Sober Coffee shop. She is renowned author of "Raising the Bottom" and is very active in the sober community helping many on their walk on the sober path. Join us.

Coffee table for 3 as Karen joins Mike & Glenn to review Step 7 - "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings..."

Mike & Glenn grab their favorite table at the Sober Coffee shop - Exploring how our trip to Alcoholic Hell was a progressive path.... So is RECOVERY - Progressive Recovery! Listen in as they outline how long the 12 steps should take...

Join Mike & Glenn in the sober coffee shop as they explore AA's 9th Step Promises - Sharing experience, strength and hope for those wanting to know "what they get" if they commit and work the AA 12 Steps.

Karen joins Mikey & Glenn in the Coffee Shop to chat about Step 6 - "Were ENTIRELY ready to have God remove all these defects of character..." Wait... What defects ??

From how to pick a sponsor to why old timers and newcomers are - and are not - so different, Mike and Glenn talk about perceptions, reality, and what those years of sobriety actually mean. Coffee is sipped, experience is shared, and the secret sauce is revealed. Listen in to the coffee shop for the 7 keys and most important pieces of advice from admittedly not old timers. 

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Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Table for 4 at the coffee shop today! Bruce is on the sober path journey with AA. Karen is on the Al-Anon journey. Married for 34 years, Bruce has been sober for the last 17 years. Bruce and Karen have gone through it. Listen to Bruce’s story today as he tells us about losing his soul to addiction and deciding he didn’t want to spread this disease to his family - instead he chose recovery.

For more about this podcast:

 - Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

 - Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

 - Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

 - In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

The other Mike joins Mike and Glenn at the coffee shop, sharing his experience from slave-to-the-sauce to service while learning to appreciate the peace he found in the ” enough” he possesses today.  

Mike & Glenn benefit from the AA 12 Step Program - Especially the first 164 pages... Listen in at the Sober Coffee Shop as they break down Page 164 where "A Vision For You" is outlined.

You can learn from anyone. You can learn what to do. You can learn what not to do. If you listen to their story, listen to their life and the challenges they face, if you truly listen - their story is suggesting to you how to overcome an obstacle in your life. That’s what we hear from James C.

James shares that he was given the gift of surrender on a cold January night in Michigan. It was the end of the road. He was highly addicted to alcohol, heroin, methadone, and valium and spent detox in a dingy, dark room. On the third night, sick as a dog, James tells us about the circumstances that led to his surrender, his gift of sobriety and the willingness to do the hard work that would be facing him after detox.

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For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Mike and Glenn chat about plans, expectations and getting and staying sober-healthy.

Mike and Glenn unpack, dissect, and discuss what the 12th step means to them and how it plays out in their lives.

Mike and Glenn bust out the noise makers and streamers and talk about the year ahaed.  

Mike and Glenn discuss accountability, sharing tools they use to keep guardrails in their lives.

Grab an extra cup of coffee and join Mike & Glenn as they focus on Step 9 - "Made direct amends to such people - wherever possible - except when to do so would injure them or others..." Strong action step -

Through his own path to recovery, Stevie G stayed at a halfway house. While there, he found connections and moved forward in his own recovery, but he saw some things that were disturbing, as if the halfway house had lost the focus on helping recovering alcoholics. After leaving, Stevie was presented with the opportunity - a friend owned some 3 flats - and Stevie said “I think we can do better for people”. That was 30 years ago and he continues to work in the sober community with RCOSA sober living.

RCOSA is a privately funded non-profit organization providing sober living where individuals work on building a foundation for sobriety through love and support, and incredible counselors with lots of experience to help individuals cognitively and emotionally. Everyone gets their own room with different buildings for different demographics like age,and there are two groups a week with group and individual counseling. RCOSA has created a space where people feel like they are vested in their recovery, and have fun along the way. The facilities are top notch, costs are reasonable, and the location is very accessible. Individuals walk into an instant community.

Benefits and focuses of sober living:

• Community
• Accountability and structure
• Direction and Guidance
• Incredible Counselors: individual and group

Thousands of people have gone through RCOSA. The average length of stay is a little under a year. Why? Because 

the idea of 28 day treatment is unrealistic - individuals are not cured after 28 days. It takes 6 - 12 months to change those neural pathways and stay at RCOSA is a minimum of 3 months. That’s where the value of RCOSA is, and that is why esteemed alumni are seeing such a benefit. 

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Mentioned in this episode:

RCOSA website: https://www.rcosa.org/

Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous: https://www.amazon.com/Alcoholics-AAWS/dp/1893007162/

Page 86: https://anonpress.org/bb/Page_86.htm

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

What's Sober.Coffee all about? Step "Behind the Counter" with Mike & Glenn and find out.

Join Mike & Glenn in the sober coffee shop where Glenn outlines the 22 things (tools) that keep him on the sober path of recovery. Which ones do you use? What are some other things you do ?

“I didn’t care about anything - except Vodka.” That’s the opening line of Lisa Avellyra’s book, and she joins Mike and Glenn in the coffee shop to talk about her story of experience, hope and strength.

Lisa was a lifelong drinker - drinking in college, drinking after college. After 40 years of drinking it caught up with her. Lisa didn’t want to live without drinking, but she knew she couldn’t sustain how she was drinking - so the easiest path in her eyes was to not live anymore. She failed at that objective. The beginning of her book starts here, at rock bottom. It could have been the end of her story, but it was just the beginning. 

In this episode:

Get Me To The Abbey by Lisa Avellyra

https://www.amazon.com/Get-Me-Abbey-Lisa-Avelleyra/dp/1955656282/

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Mike & Glenn share their Experience, Strength & Hope with STEP TWO - "Came to believe a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity"

Mike & Glenn chat about the story in the big book - About the guy that walks out of the tornado shelter... "Look Ma...." Coffee chat about the Damage we did to ourselves and others when we were drinking...

The only way to the top of Mt Everest is the same as the path to recovery - one step at a time. Mike and Glenn are in the coffee shop talking about the similarities and differences of climbing Mt Everest and following the path to recovery. From the necessary preparation, the path, who you are traveling with and challenges along the way, listen in to two guys on the sober road to recovery.

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Join Mike & Glenn as they explore life in sobriety - Or as Glenn puts it - Riding the "Ferris Wheel".

Darren joins Mike & Glenn in the coffee shop to talk about Celebrate Recovery. Darren has dealt with alcohol addiction in his own life for 30 years, off again and on again. He went to hundreds of AA meetings but never really connected with it - then found Celebrate Recovery.

Celebrate Recovery is about hurts, habits and hangups. While Celebrate Recovery is still a 12 step program with very similar steps to AA, Celebrate Recovery talks about God and Jesus and is very religious based including prayer, scripture and worship songs. Each of the 12 steps adds bible verses that connect to the step and members participate in a step study as a group instead of with a sponsor. 

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In this episode:

Celebrate Recovery:

https://www.celebraterecovery.com/

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

From myth to truth, it’s a rapid fire espresso shots with Mike and Glenn. As they talk about things they’ve heard, questions from emails, inquiries from social media, Mike and Glenn fire true and false statements at each other with a little back and forth banter mixed in. It’s all about sobriety, recovery and addiction and the myths, misconceptions and truths that go with it.

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In this episode:

Previous Rapid Fire 6 Sober Espresso Shots podcast: https://www.sober.coffee/podcast/episode/1b0ba251/rapid-fire-6-sober-espresso-shots

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Are you all-in or only taking half measures on your sobriety? Do you know? Maybe you think you’re all in - but not talking a sip of alcohol is only a half measure. 

Mike and Glenn talk about being all-in on sobriety, they open up about their past half measures and how to spot them. Listen in as they discuss honesty, AA meetings, AA events, self service vs serving, connecting with sponsors, and the 12 steps. Mike and Glenn walk through and explore what a half measure looks like and what the full measure looks like for all of these things. Where do you stack up on this list? Are you all in?

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Mentioned in this episode:

Big Book of AA: https://www.aa.org/the-big-book

For more about this podcast:

Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee/

Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com/

In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

The spotlight is on Karen this week! Karen is on the Al-Anon journey while her husband Bruce is on the sober path journey with AA. Desperation brought Karen to Al-Anon and she tells us about changing her mindset from resentment because Bruce made this her problem, to realizing she had to switch the focus to herself, give up control because she could only control herself - not Bruce - and start restoring her sanity.

In this episode:

 - Previous podcast episode: Love Story Part 1 - Bruce & Karen: https://www.sober.coffee/podcast/episode/214bdf07/a-love-story-part-1-bruce-and-karen

For more about this podcast:

 - Visit Sober.Coffee website: https://www.sober.coffee

 - Sober.Coffee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sober.coffeepodcast/

 - Recorded at Audiohive Podcasting: https://www.audiohivepodcasting.com

 - In collaboration with Care Addiction Center: https://www.careaddiction.com

Mike & Glenn share their Experience, Strength & Hope with STEP FOUR - "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves"