The most difficult lesson I learned when I was growing up is that people didn’t care about me as much as I cared about them. I was a very sensitive little girl. I learned how to get hard—build a shell around my gentle emotions. I cried a lot when I was little. It was painful to suture up and protect my emotional wounds. When I found alcohol, stuff didn’t hurt as bad, and I learned to isolate myself away from people who could hurt me. This is how I coped with the world not being how I expected it to be.

When we’re drinking alcoholically, we don’t learn the hard lessons from our teens, 20’s, 30’s, etc. because we’re avoiding that painful learning process. Drinking became less of an option and more of a requirement for me. That is the chronic progressive fatal nature of the disease.

My sobriety program has equipped me with the tools to face this world, rather than hide from it. I've learned that the "next right thing" is often the very thing I’m resisting or don’t want to do. While my podcast may seem like self-help guidance, it’s more of my own journey of self-acceptance.

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