My Sober Addiction
Matt Stevens
This show is for drug addicts in recovery BY a heroin addict in recovery. Living with active addiction is hell and getting sober is an incredible accomplishment. However, it doesn’t end there; we must then maintain our sobriety and assimilate into society as normal, functioning, productive people...all while living sober dealing with triggers and cravings. Of course, addiction recovery does get easier, especially with a community of support. We can only go up from here, sobriety is an opportunity to shine and have an amazing, sober life, so let’s do it!
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Hermetic Addict and Relationship Recovery
My Sober Addiction
06/01/24 • 34 min
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After a bout with Shingles, I am in recovery and back on track! In the interest of preserving my sobriety, I steered clear of the pain meds and was reminded how important it is that we, addicts in recovery, stay healthy so that we aren’t faced with the possibility of needing pain medicine in the first place. Just sayin! Shingles is one of the most painful and miserable things I’ve ever had to go through...and I’ve detoxed off of heroin in jail, so...yeah...
As stated in a recent Substack post, my beliefs are starting to congeal and while I’m sure i will still research other philosophies and ways of thinking, I find myself leaning toward Hermeticism and Gnosticism. These are not religions, they are philosophies and ways of viewing reality. I do believe that we are in some sort of simulation be it spiritual or otherwise. I have found myself thinking that this whole thing is layers upon layers deep, so maybe it’s some spiritual and some technological mixed in deeper down the spiral. Anyway, this episode begins my unraveling of all that.
Also, recent deaths in the family have caused me to do a lot of reflecting on relationships. Particularly, those relationships that our active addiction all but destroyed. Now that we are in recovery and living sober, we can now go and repair and restore those relationships. We may have to give our loved ones time to come around, though. Remember, for years they watched us go down the spiral of addiction. All the lies and everything else we did to lose trust don’t just go away because we went to rehab and got sober. Let’s do everything we can to show that we are dead serious about our recovery and so very sorry for the damage we caused while in active addiction and, now that we are sober once and for all, we are focused on getting our lives back on track and repairing relationships. We have to do it before it is too late.
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Recovery Weirdo..Quantum Addiction..God Is a Hologram..Squirrel!
My Sober Addiction
10/20/23 • 28 min
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Believe it or not, we can learn a lot about spirituality not only from addiction and recovery, but also from science, particularly quantum physics. It demonstrates to us that reality is malleable, we can bend it and shape it. Thoughts are energy and, at its core, so is matter. We are actually hard pressed to find any real physical matter anywhere..maybe that’s why less than 5% of the universe is made up of what we can see.
I was never into science or math, I was always strictly into the arts, and obviously eventually drugs. Not the recreational ones, either, I wanted the bad ones, mainly heroin. So, yes, I was, to say the least, very surprised to find that I had a sudden fascination with quantum and theoretical physics, as well as astronomy and...what?...geometry..sacred geometry..what exactly IS that anyway? All this came about not long after I suffered a very bad heroin overdose (or maybe it was fentanyl) and was told that not only was I lucky to be alive, but that the paramedics had actually given me up for dead...so anyway, here we are, trying to figure out how to bend and shape our reality. Oh, and God is speaking to us from 1993 through some dude named Walsch.
*book referenced: Conversations With God: an uncommon dialogue Book 1 by Neale Donald Walsch
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Addiction Doesn’t Care About Snowstorms, Isn’t It Nice cont.
My Sober Addiction
01/08/25 • 26 min
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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 or if the weather has turned treacherous and travel is nearly impossible, that monster, Addiction, must still be fed. So, isn’t it nice that we don't have to live that way any more? Isn’t it nice that we can stay home and be snowed in? I tell a few stories about some of the things that we all had to go through just to get to our drug and feed our addiction. Some things no sober person would ever do!
If you have any particular stories in mind of some of the crazy things you had to do when you were in active addiction then please send those stories to me via the chat feature at the top of this description. Now that we are sober and living much happier and healthier lives, we can look back on some of those times and maybe laugh a bit but also realize how so appreciative we are for sobriety.
ISN’T IT NICE???
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Quantum Addiction and Belief, and Squeeze Cheese
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10/29/23 • 25 min
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This podcast is, primarily, based on addiction and recovery, and very much about relapse prevention. Those of us in recovery have a very distinct opportunity to rise from the ashes and build amazing lives for ourselves. I have even said that not only should we do it but we kind of, as survivors, have an obligation to so we can show the way for those still suffering in active addiction. We have to light the way for them.
With that said, In this episode I go into exactly why I have recently gone off into all the Quantum Physics and I guess even into Theoretical Physics. It’s no secret that I am very much a student of the Laws of Attraction and Assumption and believe wholeheartedly that we can use these laws to create amazing lives for ourselves. I accept the fact that a lot of people need to see some kind of physical proof of how these laws work in order for them to believe in them. So, hello Quantum Physics! Understanding the Double Slit Experiment and Quantum Entanglement helps us to understand that manifestation, reality creation, aren’t magic. In fact, they can be explained and demonstrated with physics, which helps us build belief in the process.
By coming out of active addiction, recovering, and staying sober haven’t we already accomplished amazing things? If that isn’t proof enough that we are masters at manifestation and reality creation then fine, here’s more.
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Back To Basics: Planning Life After Addiction and Staying Sober
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07/07/24 • 24 min
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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 death and rebirth. It can also be a very exciting time because it is an opportunity to reinvent ourselves. I hate to sound cliché but the possibilities are endless, seriously. (More on that in an upcoming episode) I talk a lot about the immense amount of upward momentum that is generated in addicts’ lives just by getting sober. The very act of doing something as big and dramatic as kicking active drug addiction is nothing to scoff at, it’s a total life reset. Sober living is, in and of itself, a whole lifestyle that most people can hang their hats on and be proud of. That’s a beautiful thing indeed but there is always potential for more, much more. When we are doing something new in our lives we usually start out small and gradually build momentum, and once that momentum reaches a certain point then what we are doing becomes a juggernaut that is steamrolling our goals and steadily picking up more steam. Getting that going is the hard part. That’s why our blast out of the rock bottom of active addiction into our lives of sobriety is a very unique opportunity, the momentum is already there. Also, when you’re coming out of “rock bottom” there is nowhere to go but up, right? I encourage people to take this as a chance to do something big with their lives, “Ride the wave!” We are here in this life, this realm, this existence for something! We didn’t go through the hell of addiction for nothing, and we certainly didn’t come out on the other side all clean and sober for nothing, either. So, what are we going to do? All we have to do is decide what it is and then begin moving in that direction, our Higher Power will kick in and take care of the rest.
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If Sobriety Is A State Then Addiction Is Stasis
My Sober Addiction
08/28/24 • 29 min
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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. What do I mean by that? I view recovery as the first few steps toward sobriety but that ultimately sober life is the goal. Put a bow on that, it’s done! Next, we figure out what we are going to do with the rest of our lives...now that we actually HAVE lives. Let’s face it, addiction is not “living,” it’s existing at best.
Now that we are sober (and just by virtue of that) we have an incredible amount of momentum propelling us forward. So, what’s next? Whatever it is, dream big, because with all this momentum created already we are going up, and at breakneck speeds, too. We need to utilize this opportunity we have. All that’s left is to begin being whatever it is that we choose to be. We hear all the time to “act as if,” or to “be as if,” and these statements could not be more accurate, the trick is actually doing it. Most people talk a good game but rarely do they ever really follow their own advice. That’s where we come in, we lead by our own examples, we will be the “Shining Examples” of what someone can do once they decide to simply DO it.
Please check out my YouTube channel, MattStevensMSA, and my Substack page, Matt Stevens. I do talk a lot about addiction, recovery, sobriety and sober living on those, too. Mostly, though, I explore some of the deeper meanings of things I’ve talked about on the podcast such as manifestation, reality creation, the science of consciousness, the nature of reality, Natural Law, etc. I also delve a little deeper into topics discussed on the podcast. Please subscribe to me on those so we can grow a community of fellow seekers who just so happen to also be addicts in recovery, too.
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The Money Episode, Check Your Feelings
My Sober Addiction
09/23/24 • 24 min
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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 irrelevant. It doesn’t matter if the system is rigged and some bad people have made out like bandits or not, that has nothing to do with us!
Addicts in recovery, as I always say, are in a particularly unique position in that we have an incredible amount of momentum going for us just by getting sober in the first place. We are in a position when we begin sober living to do something amazing with ourselves, and to then be examples of what addicts in recovery can accomplish. We just can not allow ourselves to fall into those traps of thinking that it can’t be done or that the deck is stacked against us. Those views instill resentment towards successful people and wealth which will almost guarantee that you will not succeed. How could you if you resent success and wealth? Or, if you see it as completely out of reach? I love you enough to tell you the hard truth about yourself and help to pull you up out of that muck.
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Recovery From Toxic Positivity, Addicted To Letting Go
My Sober Addiction
06/22/24 • 28 min
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Continuing our talk about toxic positivity, we go a bit deeper into the subject. We do have traumas and other negative things from our past that can hang around our necks dragging us down not unlike how it was when we were in active addiction. I say “not unlike” because its not the same thing as active addiction but we do need to recover from things in our past so that we can move forward in recovery with as few relapse triggers as possible. I know, any addict who wants to relapse is going to find an excuse to do so, but I’m referring to those traumas that we may have long ago attached meaning, and subsequently drug use, to in the first place, back when all this started.
As I always say, getting sober and moving forward in your life of recovery (or sober living, if you’d rather) is a huge boost in momentum for your life, so “Ride that wave!” Life after addiction doesn’t have to be scary, we don’t have to live like we are constantly being bombarded with temptations and triggers to relapse. Instead, let’s look at this as an opportunity to completely clean out our “closets” and transmute our addictions and anything from our past into something positive. There’s a very good chance there’s an addict out there still suffering in active addiction who needs to hear your recovery story, who needs to see your example. Transmutation...that’s ol’ Matty’s new favorite word!
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Polarity In Real Life, Active Addiction and Sober Living
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08/05/24 • 25 min
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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 people but we also shouldn’t sell ourselves short either.
In this episode, I go totally off the cuff with no outline. I am more than anything just reacting to a video I saw on YouTube Shorts and how what people in the comments were trash talking our life here and now in this present reality that we are in. Even addicts in recovery realize that we are here to gain experiences, to learn and grow. With as short as our lifespans are (on the cosmic scale anyway) we go through so much in such a short amount of time. The extremes in everything from environment to emotions can be hard to believe at times. It is not unlike the extremes in polarity between being in active addiction and sobriety. Whatever the case, we need to focus more on gaining experiences in this lifetime because what we take with us when we leave here will be knowledge and relationships gained, everything else will stay right here.
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Life After Addiction: A Brief History of Manifestation
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10/07/23 • 24 min
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At some point, we have to move past addiction. I don’t mean to forget where we came from, “those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” However, there does come a time when we realize that we did win our battle with addiction and need to move on. As always, I say that we do not owe anyone anything, but it would be good to go and create amazing lives for ourselves in honor of those who lost their fight and didn’t make it. Also, so that we can be examples for those who are still struggling with addiction, and, equally importantly, for ourselves.
In this episode, I touch on the history of manipulating energy and creating reality, how the Rosicrucians and the Free Masons have been teaching and passing down manifestation practices for centuries. Whether it’s the Law of Attraction or Law of Assumption or something else, what we know is that there is definitely something to it. Can we learn how to do these things, too? According to the book I’m currently reading and referenced in the episode, not only can we but we do! Either consciously or unconsciously, we are manifesting and correlating our lives every second of every moment of our lives. The key is to get aware of this fact and begin to control and direct our thoughts, words and actions...consciously.
* the book referenced in this episode is “Conversations With God - An Uncommon Dialogue” by Neale Donald Walsch
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How many episodes does My Sober Addiction have?
My Sober Addiction currently has 55 episodes available.
What topics does My Sober Addiction cover?
The podcast is about Addiction, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Drug, Sobriety, Podcasts, Anonymous, Self-Improvement, Education, Recovery, Encouragement and Awareness.
What is the most popular episode on My Sober Addiction?
The episode title 'Spiritual Sobriety, Addicted to Outcome Part 2 kinda' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on My Sober Addiction?
The average episode length on My Sober Addiction is 28 minutes.
How often are episodes of My Sober Addiction released?
Episodes of My Sober Addiction are typically released every 12 days, 18 hours.
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The first episode of My Sober Addiction was released on Feb 20, 2023.
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