Throwback Thursday: Greg Behrendt on Why Sobriety Is So Damn Loud

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Long before Recovery Rocks, Anna’s Recover Girl podcast featured raw live storytelling from comedians and recovering addicts. This Thursday Throwback brings back Greg Behrendt — comedian, bestselling author of He’s Just Not That Into You and one of Anna’s favorite guests ever.Greg talks about the strange grief of getting sober: realizing music is too loud, dates are terrifying and reality is way more intense than expected. He also hilariously dismantles some of recovery’s most beloved clichés, including the idea that sober people somehow “have more fun.”It’s brutally honest, deeply funny and painfully relatable for anyone who’s ever realized that numbing out was, at least partially, an attempt to survive being so sensitive.

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