Bodily And Mentally Different From Our Fellows (The Daily Trudge)

Bodily And Mentally Different From Our Fellows (The Daily Trudge)

Curious about how others turn a messy, very human day into recovery fuel? This Daily Trudge instalment of RAW Recovery finds host Dion in full, unfiltered mode – starting with anger, and ending in hard truth and acceptance. He opens by venting about someone copying his RAW Recovery and Trudging Together material without permission.

It’s emotional, even fiery, and he’s honest about wanting consequences: “You steal my shit, I will come after you with a vengeance.” But instead of staying stuck in rage, he keeps circling back to a simple recovery idea: there has to be a solution in it, or it’s just wasted pain.

From there, Dion shifts into reading from the Big Book chapter “More About Alcoholism”, focusing on the line that Alcoholics are “bodily and mentally different from our fellows.” He shares openly that he hated feeling different growing up – like the kid who never quite belongs – and links that lifelong sense of otherness to alcoholism and mental obsession.

You’ll hear him talk about the “5,000 pound telephone”, the fear of asking for help, and how talking things through with another person often leads to the solution “coming out of your own mouth.” He stresses that alcohol isn’t the core problem once you’re sober – it’s the “isms”: “If you have alcoholism, you get rid of alcohol. What you have left is isms.

I, self, me.” With cat interruptions, geek jokes about D&D and cosplay, and plenty of swearing, the tone is raw, irreverent, and oddly comforting. This one is especially relatable if you’ve ever felt different, resentful, or stuck on whether you’re a “real alcoholic” and what that actually means.

It might leave you asking yourself: are you still trying to prove you’re like everyone else, or are you ready to accept that you’re wired differently and work with that instead of against it?