12 Smart Things To Do When The Booze and Drugs are Gone: Part 2 & The Monksters Speak!

RMA-Episode 56 Show Notes:   This week on RMA-We continue our discussion of emotional sobriety as an essential element of recovery by taking a look at a few of Dr. Berger’s 12 Smart Things. Find out what you have in common with a Bonsai tree!  Don’t let other people edit your reality, man! Also, know thyself and above all, watch your projections.    Plus, the week in review and the usual hijinks on an emotionally centered, integrated, rigorously honest episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages   LINKS:   12 Smart Things to Do When the Booze and Drugs Are Gone: Choosing Emotional Sobriety through Self-Awareness and Right Action  Purchase through this link to support RMA! https://amzn.to/3CDxhrm   Recovery News You Can Use   https://www.soberliningsplaybook.com/ Recovery in the News:   Lawmakers want to strengthen access to non-religious substance abuse treatment  Lawmakers want to strengthen access to non-religious substance abuse treatment services   The Week in Weird:   Demi Lovato’s Close Encounter   LISTEN TO RMA ON YOUTUBE PLEASE leave us a 5 star review on I-Tunes if you’re enjoying the show and SUBSCRIBE to get the latest episodes.    You can reach us by email at: [email protected] [email protected]   Send comments, complaints, death threats, ideas and requests to be interviewed. We’ll talk to anyone! Check out the website: Www.middleagesrecovery.com   While you’re there, buy a T-Shirt and support your favorite recovery podcast.   Visit MiddleAgesRecovery.com and tell us your story of your struggles with alcohol and drugs. Fill out the “tell us your story” Form on the website, write your recovery or using story and we will read it on the air! (Anonymity guaranteed).   FOLLOW US ON TWITTER  Join the Facebook Page! Exciting things are happening there!   We also have a Facebook Group! Request to join the group. It’s a private space for continuing the discussion of what Nat and Mike talk about on the podcast. Hope to see you there. If you’re in trouble with substance abuse and need help, reach out. There are thousands of people who have put problems with addiction in their rear-view mirrors and you can be one of them. While we neither endorse nor condemn any particular program, the sheer number of available AA and NA meetings suggest that reaching out to those organizations would be a good first step on the road to recovery.     https://www.aa.org/ https://www.na.org/meetingsearch/   Marijuana Anonymous (just in case):   This Naked Minds   Addiction Recovery Podcast