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Recovery Elevator 🌴

It isn't a NO to alcohol, but a YES to a better life! Best selling author Paul Churchill, along with Kristopher Oyen interview people who have stepped away from alcohol in their own lives. Each week this podcast does a deep dive into an exploration of what a booze free life might look like from various perspectives and opinions.  If you are sick and tired of alcohol making you sick and tired, we invite you to listen to Recovery Elevator. Check out what an alcohol free life can look like as others share their own stories of sobriety. If you are sober curious, newly sober, supporting a loved one or living your best life already in recovery, then you are in the right place. This podcast addresses what to do if you’re addicted to alcohol, or if you think you’re an alcoholic. Other topics include, does moderate drinking work, does addiction serve a purpose, what happens to the brain when we quit drinking, should you track sobriety time, is A.A. right for you, spirituality, and more. Similar to other recovery podcasts like This Naked Mind, the Shair Podcast, and the Recovered Podcast, Paul and Kris discuss a topic and then interview someone who has ditched the booze.
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Now displaying: March, 2015
Mar 30, 2015

Alcohol is the most dangerous drug in the world and you probably don’t even realize it.

 

 

David Nutt, psychiatrist at imperial college in the UK and former Chairman of the UK advisory council on drugs.

 

- Kills 3 million people worldwide

 

- Was fired for suggesting alcohol was most dangerous drug

 

- In the USA alcohol is responsible for 1/3 of all traffic fatalities

 

- With homicides ½ were intoxicated and 2/3 of domestic violence victims

 

- You’re likely to be a victim is doubled as well

 

Harm score from

 

- Measures drugs on a score of 16 (9 measure harm to individual user and 7 measure societal factors)

 

- Heroine, crack, and Meth are more dangerous when only individual factors, but even so, alcohol is the 4th.

 

- Tobacco is the 7th most harmful drug. 9/10 people can handle alcohol, but 0/10 people can smoke. QUIT SMOKING NOW

 

- Important to not confuse legality with dangerousness. The reasons some drugs are legal are mainly cultural and political.

 

- Marijuana is the gateway drug? Nope. It’s alcohol and even more dangerous than ecstasy and LSD

 

 

 

Mar 23, 2015

When I found out one of my brother's best friends is an alcoholic I was blown away; an a little upset that we hadn't connected years before so we could have been working together.

Here are some of the resources that Elliot likes.

 

Joe and Charlie

Rich Roll

Sandy Beach

 

Like Elliot mentioned, if you would like to get in touch with Elliot, email info@recoveryelevator.com and we will put you in touch with him.

 

 

 

Mar 16, 2015

It's so depressing to imagine the amount of money wasted on alcohol.

 Alcohol has cost me $155,052

 

 

Celebration

 

·      Ashamed, didn’t want to tell anyone. 185 days of sobriety.

 

Accountability

 

·      Goals

 

 

The research is conclusive. Dr. Gail Matthews, a psychology professor at Dominican University in California, did a study on goal-setting with 267 participants. She found that you are 42 percent more likely to achieve your goals just by writing them down.

 

Goal: Quit drinking. Must have a date, a plan, details, etc.

 

 

 

Mar 9, 2015

Paul sums up his summer of 2014 and drinking career with one dream explaining why he decided his elevator had gone down far enough.

 

Points to discuss during Podcast

 

-It works! It's keeping me sober. Talk about every Monday at 6am goal and how someone reached out.

 

Fear of creating podcasts is no one will listen, mine is that people will actually listen.

 

Dream

 

            Peace, Calm, unity, free

Gary Jules - Mad World Dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had which describes how Paul felt in the summer of 2014.

 

 

 

Repeating statements, words etc. Broken Record. Are you not listening to your own podcasts?

 

 

 

Addiction doing laps on ten-speed bike

 

            Addiction can dunk a basketball

 

            Doing pull-ups

 

            Burpees         

 

            Taking a break, then buying performance enhancing drugs

 

Picture of my beautiful view while podcasting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

 

 

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