RMA Guide to Surviving the Holidays & Seasonal Affective Disorder - Discussing ”Living Sober”

RMA-Episode 63 Show Notes:   Ready or not, the holidays are around the corner! The stretch from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve is fraught with peril for the newly sober and seasoned sobernaut alike. This week on RMA’s Thanksgiving Extravaganza, Mike and Nat share tips and tricks for making it through with mental health and sobriety intact. To help provide structure to the conversation, they read and comment on selections from Living Sober: Practical Methods Alcoholics Have Used for Living Without Drinking. Whether you identify as an alcoholic, a grey area drinker, or something in between, there’s something in this conversation for YOU.   Other topics covered this week include: Seasonal Affective Disorder, First Things First, Triggers, Boundaries and RMA’s first Zoom recovery meeting.   Plus, Recovery in the News, The Week in Weird, a few war stories and the life update, on a gratitude filled, home for the holidays, cranberry-smeared episode of Recovery in the Middle Ages   LINKS:   Read Living Sober for Free Online   Recovery News You Can Use   https://www.soberliningsplaybook.com/ Recovery in the News:   Overdose Deaths Reached Record High as Pandemic Spread Lawmakers want to strengthen access to non-religious substance abuse treatment services   The Week in Weird:   NASA Scientists Propose Framework for Announcing Potential Alien Discoveries 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 Mind   Addiction Recovery Podcast