Staying Connected When You Don't Feel Like It w/Ana & Michael 🏳️🌈 A Queer Recovery Podcast 🎙️Staying Connected When You Don't Feel Like It w/Ana & Michael 🏳️🌈 A Queer Recovery Podcast 🎙️
At The CCC
Hosts and guests talk about staying connected to recovery even when meetings feel boring, draining or inconvenient, sharing varied routines and tools that work for them. The conversation highlights personal choice, queer community, and the many different ways connection can support sobriety.
29:00•10 May 2026
Staying Connected in Queer Recovery When You’d Rather Hide
Episode Overview
- Boredom or stagnation in meetings can be a signal to try new meetings or reflect on what’s missing, rather than a reason to give up.
- Connection can include Zoom meetings, Facetime with sober friends, recovery audio, and literature, not just in‑person rooms.
- It’s okay to adjust meeting frequency and service commitments based on health, schedule and mental wellbeing.
- Service to recovery can happen through community work, drag, charity events, and supporting newcomers, not only formal roles in meetings.
- Each person’s recovery routine is individual; copying someone else’s schedule will not guarantee the same life or results.
“Just because you do the same amount of meetings is not going to give you the life that this person has. You have to do what works for you.”
Curious about how others navigate their sobriety journey? This conversation from At The CCC brings together queer folks in recovery who are brutally honest, very funny, and deeply real about what it takes to stay connected when you’d rather go home, shut the door, and binge TV. Jordan and LouiLou are joined by returning guests Ana and Michael to talk about boredom in 12‑step rooms, burnout from constant helping, invisible disabilities, and the drag of doing “the same old meetings”.
Ana shares hitting a plateau at ten years clean, realising she’d been clinging to the routine that kept her sober but stopped her growing: “Yes, the 12 steps is a part of my life, but that’s not all that is a part of my life.” Drag, writing and biking become part of how she keeps life interesting and sobriety alive.
The group compares different ways they stay plugged in: early‑morning Zoom meetings to “bookend” the day, swapping out murder‑mystery podcasts for recovery audio, Facetiming sober friends instead of doom‑scrolling, and even bringing parents and “normie” friends to meetings. There’s a lot of laughter, but also clear honesty about pain, fatigue and mental health. They talk frankly about moving meetings when leadership changes, taking breaks from service commitments, and the guilt that can come with that.
One key message keeps surfacing: recovery is personal. As Ana puts it, “Just because you do the same amount of meetings is not going to give you the life that this person has. You have to do what works for you.” For anyone in queer recovery who feels stuck, burnt out, or tired of seeing the same faces and hearing the same shares, this chat offers practical ideas and a reminder that connection can look many different ways.
What small, doable way could you stay connected today, even if you don’t feel like it?
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