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Podcast: It's Not About the Alcohol
Episode: Are sobriety meetings helpful?
Description: Community is the foundation of recovery. We don't recover alone! But the ideas you're exposed to in early sobriety have significant impact on your recovery. Labeling yourself as an "alcoholic" and committing to lifetime abstinence can increase your chance of relapse into alcohol use disorder. Ask someone who has what you want how they got it is good advice. But if you're human, what you want will evolve over time in response to what you need. Giving yourself permission to change—not just how you drink but also how you think—allows you to grow into...