May 5 – Seeing Clearly

The Daily Ripples Podcast · May 5, 2026 · 13m · transcript

Happy Cinco de Mayo — and for Corey and Paris, a holiday that used to look very different. Today Corey is back with his friend Paris — his sponsee, and someone who shared a past that makes their current kitchen table look like a miracle. Because it kind of is. They dig into emotional sobriety, which only appears once in all the AA literature — on the very first page of Step 12 — and what it means that the byproduct of carrying the message is that your own emotions start to settle. Paris connects it to getting fit: it took work to get there, and it takes even more work to stay there. Corey…