217: Ceci n'est pas un recovery podcast.217: Ceci n'est pas un recovery podcast.
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Not the recovery podcast you need, but the recove…
1:03:33•13 Sept 2020
Grief, Gallows Humour and 60 Years Sober: Ceci n’est pas un Recovery Podcast
Episode Overview
- Pain, grief and loss still show up in sobriety, but can be faced without numbing out with alcohol or drugs.
- End‑of‑life choices like cremation and DNRs raise complex feelings that many people in recovery are confronting for the first time sober.
- Being the sober one in a family can mean becoming the dependable crisis contact, which is both a gift and a heavy responsibility.
- Long‑term sobriety doesn’t erase shame about past behaviour, yet sharing those stories openly can reduce isolation and guilt.
- Humour, films, and comedy podcasts can provide vital light relief alongside more traditional recovery supports.
“Through sobriety, you have to face a lot of shit and you don't have any buffer.”
How do people cope with the hardest parts of life without reaching for a drink? This loose, funny and surprisingly moving chat from Jeff, Matt and Chris circles around that question without ever pretending to have all the answers. Bouncing from tech glitches to grief, they open with a darkly comic cremation mix‑up involving their family and “the other Joy Tucker in St.
Louis.” From there, the talk shifts into what death, ageing and medical choices look like when you’re sober. Do-not-resuscitate wishes, hospital machines and that blurry line between prolonging life and accepting the end all get picked apart with equal parts seriousness and gallows humour. You’ll also hear them reflect on what it means to face pain without booze or drugs.
As one of them puts it, “Through sobriety, you have to face a lot of shit and you don't have any buffer.” They compare how they once used alcohol and other substances to block everything out, versus how they now lean on meetings, relationships and honest conversations instead.
The episode keeps swinging between heavy and hilarious: an overdose-responder who’s “brought back 162 people” with Narcan, the stress of 2020, crumbling relationships, and the weird pressure of being the stable sober one in a very unstable family. There are raw stories of funerals, missing weddings, seersucker suits, bath salts, and becoming the relative everyone phones from jail. Yet it’s not all doom and gloom.
By the end, they’re joking about starting a recovery house together, quoting The Godfather, and swapping recommendations for comedy podcasts that help them stay sane. If you like recovery conversations that are messy, honest and unfiltered rather than polished and preachy, this so‑called “not a recovery podcast” might be exactly what you’ve been looking for. What parts of your own story would you talk about if you had a space this uncensored?
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