Awesome.

I would say the biggest hidden bait and switch of sobriety for me is the depth of my friendships and how much I see relationships as less transactional and more just the point of existence.

And that like basically everyone holds a key to a door.

I don't know I'll need opened until I do need it opened.

And just seeing that connection and relationships have changed and deepened and make up so much of the joy of my life at this point that never would have been what it was because I think that in the midst of my drinking whatever stage I was in it was very transactional it was like let me buy you a drink and we'll talk about it or can you buy me a drink and we can talk about it and then we'd go home and we wouldn't call each other do anything and I think that being in sobriety and especially having a recovery community that cares about me I've learned how to interlink a lot of different rings of healing, whether it's my recovery friends, my meditation friends, my running friends, whatever it is.

There's an interlinking of those friendships that kind of add up to more depth in that friendship and relationship.

You know, create your own.

I think that's one of the more interesting things about this is that when you see groups like Matt Bentley back here, self-creating and self-starting a type of recovery community that allows that radical hospitality to people who don't fit into the mold of traditional recovery, you start to see something really special happen right there.