10/04/2024
Today I celebrate 27 years of continuous sobriety. 🙌🏻
I picked up my first drink when I was 12 years old 😱 and by the time I was 14 I was drinking and blacking out nearly every weekend. It only got worse from there. I “tried” to get sober around 18, however the emotional pain I was in felt intolerable and my eating disorders (anorexia and bulimia) began to spiral out of control. I picked up co***ne and alcohol again a short 18 months later and by the time I was 21 I wanted to wither away and die literally every day. I felt hopeless, helpless and destined to a life of continued emotional torment. For me there were truly only two options; get sober and live or stay active and die.
On 10/4/1997 when I was 21 years old I took the greatest leap of blind faith, asked for help and was granted the most amazing gift of my life.
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Although life on life’s terms has not always been easy I have lived through all the huge, monumental, life and soul changing experiences I’ve had, as well as all the small, mundane ones, SOBER and for that I am beyond grateful.
Thank you to those of you that have been a part of my journey! ♥️
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I share my experience here to hopefully be a power of example if you or someone you know is struggling. There is a solution. I hope and pray you may find it now.
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