My Sober Addiction

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here!  Maybe this is podcasting career suicide. Maybe it’s not. If you have never heard an episode of My Sober Addiction before then maybe check out a few other episodes before this one. This one is very impromptu, unplanned, not prepared for and completely unedited. I had just reread 4 chapters in my upcoming memoir of my time in active addiction and it re...

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here!  In this episode of My Sober Addiction, I ask the question,  “Was it worth it?” Was your addiction and all you went through and all you put your loved ones through worth it in the end? Meaning, now that you’re living sober and an inspiration for others still in active addiction to get sober. Or, now that your children can look to your example of the l...

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here!  In this episode of My Sober Addiction we are talking about ways to keep your sobriety in the forefront of your life. Besides addiction and recovery, addicts have one thing in common for sure and that is our tenacity, the way we obsess over things. It’s almost fanatical really. We don't know moderation, its as I’ve said in the past, we go either...

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here!  In this episode of My Sober Addiction we are once again talking about auto-pilot and how, if left unchecked, it can be a recovery killer. The good news is that we DO have ways to switch that off, be more mindful and keep recovery and sober living in the forefront of our minds. Active addiction was the ultimate in mindless auto-pilot living and the ad...

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here!  In this, the 50th episode of My Sober Addiction, we talk about being mindful and staying aware of our state of mind. When we were in active addiction, we stayed in a constant state of auto-pilot and every day was exactly the same as before. In recovery, it is no different, we have to stay on guard and protect our sobriety. We can’t allow ourselves to...

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here! ***Relapse Trigger Warning*** I do go into graphic detail about intravenous drug use in this episode. I have faith that you can handle it but may need a little heads up. If you feel that your recovery is fragile then maybe this episode is not for you. If that is the case, just know that I do love you and I’ll talk with you in episode 50.  In this epis...

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here!  In this episode of My Sober Addiction, we are getting into what not to do when you finally get sober. Recovery can be tricky and if we aren’t careful we can allow our addictive traits seep in and we then direct our addiction toward all that. Then “Recovery Burnout” sets in and the chances of relapse increase. The best plan of action is to always be a...

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here!  In this episode of My Sober Addiction, we expand on what is going in our “tool bags” for manifesting a happy and successful life that we truly want to experience. To manifest the life you truly want now that you are out of active addiction and now living sober you have to get very good at being thankful, of course, but you also have to sharpen your d...

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here!  In this episode of My Sober Addiction, we are continuing the theme of the previous two episodes where we reflected back on our time in active addiction and how different our lives are now that we are living sober but going a bit further.  We are looking into how gratitude is your #1 Tool for life. It’s more than just being grateful for sobriety, it’s...

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here!  On this episodes of My Sober Addiction, I was inspired by the recent snowstorm to reflect back on my time in active addiction and remember how, even during a blizzard or an ice storm, I had to stay on the hustle to make sure I had dope for the next day. And then the next, etc. the madness doesn’t end. It doesn’t matter if there is a holiday going on...

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here!  in this episode of My Sober Addiction, we take a tiny peek into Hermeticism and how the Principles of Polarity and Rhythm apply to our lives, particularly to addiction and sobriety. Even when we are living sober, addiction always seems to still pop in and say hello from time to time through temptation to relapse. The opposite was true, also. When we...

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here!  In this episode of My Sober Addiction, we are continuing with getting back to talking about addiction and recovery. The YouTube channel is where the metaphysical stuff will be from now on. Here, we are returning to talking about addiction, recovery, relapse prevention and moving on into our lives sober, happy and healthy, wealthy and free.  During th...

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here!  Surprise! Ol’ Matty is back to focusing on addiction in the audio podcast. The YouTube channel has freed me up so that all my interests in metaphysical topics can be discussed there. This makes it so that My Sober Addiction can return to being primarily about addiction, sobriety and sober living. Don’t get it twisted, though, I’m still who I am and I...

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here!  On this episode of My Sober Addiction, we discuss finding purpose and meaning after you’ve gotten sober. In the Sober Living community, there are many who find spirituality and/or religion in very big ways. As addicts are known to do, they throw themselves into it fully, further proving that we don’t know how to do anything in moderation. Addiction i...

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here!  Kitty joins me in this 40th episode of My Sober Addiction where we talk about empathy and what it means to be an empath.  More specifically, a conscious empath. The types of people who are drawn to empaths can range from people who simply need to vent to people who are sympathy seeking life energy sucking vampires. Also, we introduce Kitty’s new YouT...

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here!  In this episode of My Sober Addiction, we revisit the topic of roadblocks and how they are very positive signs in your life. If you’ve kicked addiction and gotten sober and now moving on with your life, you may be seeing some roadblocks and/or curveballs coming your way but let that encourage you instead of the opposite. Why? Because it’s a very, ver...

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here!  In this episode of My Sober Addiction, we are looking into exactly what does the term “spiritual awakening” actually mean? Do we ever become fully awakened spiritually? And what abuse, neglect and/or trauma caused us to seek some sort of refuge, and then find it in addiction in the first place? At first, the drugs seemed to be the perfect answer to e...

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here!  In this episode of My Sober Addiction, we are talking about some hard truths about our attitudes towards money and success. A lot of people have fallen into the trap of believing that success is very hard to achieve or that anyone who has had success and accumulated wealth did it by some nefarious means. Whether that’s true or not is completely irrel...

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here!  “You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a drop.” - Rumi  Simple and profound, Im afraid that far too often quotes like this are pushed to the “bargain bin” aka used in memes on social media but rarely really pondered. The Kybalion teaches us that “All are in the ALL,” but also that “The ALL is in All.” In this episode of My Sobe...

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here!  In this episode of My Sober Addiction we sort of get back to the business of talking about addiction and recovery and sober living and all that. Sort of. I’m making the point that we are not going backwards and we aren’t going to sit still, either. We are moving forward into our lives of sobriety, away from active addiction and even from recovery. Wh...

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here!  Since beginning the My Sober Addiction podcast I know I haven’t always been consistent. For that, I am offering an apology, and publishing this short podcast. I do have what I believe to be one of my best episodes yet recorded but still need to edit it. It has been a wild week and since recording this short episode it got even crazier. I am typing th...

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here!  In this episode of My Sober Addiction, I go a little further into the Kybalion. We begin to explore the possibility of none of this being real. As interesting of a subject as this may be, it can lead to a nihilistic attitude. I certainly am not trying to trigger anyone to relapse back into active addiction but to demonstrate how this realization can...

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here!  In the last episode I was talking about how so many addicts, whether in active addiction or living sober in recovery, always seem to look outside themselves for an inspiring story. They never seem to realize their own story is as amazing as the ones giving leads at your local AA or NA meeting. I am not at all suggesting we shouldn’t listen to those p...

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here!  So often we, addicts, find ourselves looking outside of ourselves for inspiration to stay sober. Your story of sobriety is an amazing story of beating addiction and moving  forward, so please don’t sell yourself short. In this episode, I talk about how we have got to stop wanting an amazing life and simply begin to BE what it is that we choose to be....

Something on your mind? Send Matt a text here!  After my last relapse in 2017, I was finally serious about sobriety and saw it as a way of life rather than just quitting heroin. Around that time, my dad told me that “people don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan.” I do not know where he got this old saying from but it is a good one. Moving forward in a life of sobriety can be scary, it’s not unlike...