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SOBER: The Podcast
Bradley Saxon teaches Step 10 as the daily maintenance step that protects and grows sobriety, stressing the need to identify the real problem and live a practical spiritual program. The live session speaks directly to people in early recovery who want clear structure, honesty, and faith-based tools for lasting change.
1:17:10•7 Apr 2026
Keeping What You’ve Gained: Bradley Saxon on Step 10 and Spiritual Maintenance
Episode Overview
- Focus on three main goals in treatment: identify the problem, identify the solution, and follow a program of action.
- Understand alcoholism as an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind, placing you beyond human aid.
- Use Step 10 to catch new mistakes quickly, correct them, and prevent small slips becoming full patterns.
- Shift from trying to manage life through willpower to depending on God and applying spiritual principles daily.
- Accept that spiritual growth requires ongoing work; peace and freedom grow as you consistently practise these tools.
“Addiction is a spiritual problem with a drinking and drug solution.”
How do individuals from all walks of life battle addiction? This live step study session of SOBER: The Podcast drops you straight into a room of guys working through Step 10, with host Bradley Saxon guiding the conversation in his usual straight-talking, faith-rooted style. Bradley frames Step 10 as the “maintenance portion” of recovery – the bit that keeps you in the game once the initial crisis has passed.
He explains that getting sober is one thing, but keeping it is another: “People, including myself, can get it, right, but can’t keep it.” From there, he lays out three clear goals for anyone in treatment: identify the problem, identify the solution, and follow a program of action that actually connects you with God.
You’ll hear him break down Step 1 as a medical and mental reality rather than a religious label, talking about the allergy to alcohol and the obsession of the mind. He pushes hard against the idea that life management alone can fix addiction, comparing it to playing whack-a-mole with your problems while the real issue stays untouched. Bradley also spends time unpacking what daily spiritual “maintenance” looks like.
Step 10 becomes a practical toolkit: catching new mistakes quickly, pausing when agitated or doubtful, and using truth rather than feelings to steer choices. He describes this as learning to “throw the flag” on unhelpful thoughts, using the authority that comes from a spiritual life rather than raw willpower. If you’re early in recovery, supporting someone who is, or already working the steps and feeling stuck, this conversation offers structure, language, and plenty of hard-earned honesty.
Are you just trying to fix symptoms, or are you ready to tackle the real problem at its roots?
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