Choosing Your Sobriety Date: Detox, CBT, and the Work That Keeps You Sober

Getting to day one can be the hardest part. In this deeply personal episode, Matt, a professional Los Angeles musician, shares how a fifteen-year drinking habit, a DUI, and the loss of his mother converged into one of the hardest seasons of his life—and how he eventually made his way to a sobriety date he chose for himself: January 13, 2025.

This conversation explores what it actually takes to reach day one and, more importantly, how to stay there. Matt walks through the layered support that carried him through detox and early sobriety—medical intervention including naltrexone and other medications, therapy grounded in CBT, and the community he found through Reframe meetings and beyond. From there, the discussion opens into the deeper work of the second year: the searching self-inventory, making amends, and the practice of writing things down to see them clearly instead of letting them swirl in the mind.

Listeners will find a candid look at the "selfish selflessness" of recovery—how caring for yourself first creates the solid ground to show up for others—along with reflections on community as the antidote to addiction, the role of spirituality and staying open to signs, and why the work never really ends. The episode closes with practical takeaways on understanding the problems our behaviors are trying to solve, and the simple power of just starting the thing you keep putting off.

Whether you're working toward your own day one or building a life well past it, Matt's story is a reminder that changing your relationship with alcohol is about so much more than what's in your glass.

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