Welcome to Seltzer Squad, the podcast about staying sober in the city with your host, Kate Sander and Jess Valentine.

Hi, Jess. Hi, Kate. Hey, squad. Hey, squad. Today we're answering your questions. We reached out to you on Instagram to hear what you guys want us to talk about. So let's get into it. I want to kind of

rewind a little bit and talk about our sobriety beginnings,

our day ones. I know I've had more than one. You've had more than one. Yeah. One of our squad members

reached out to just kind of talk about what was the hardest parts of day one and early sobriety for you.

Well, day one was definitely emotional. I was clearly hung over. I mean, I guess it's not that obvious, but yeah, I was hungover. I'm going back to before my relapse because I think that was my real getting sober moment, my aha moment. You know, obviously I have tried to go sober a bunch of times, but I think that was the first time I was super

serious about it and was doing it for the right reasons for myself.

You know, like I mentioned in a previous episode, me and my ex-boyfriend had gotten into a

physical altercation.

And I don't know.

I feel like I just woke up and I was just, I just clicked.

I just clicked. Like, okay, this, I need to make a change. It was really emotional. I was super depressed. I knew I had to maybe go talk to a therapist. I think that is really key. As far as from my sobriety goes, getting into therapy has been the most beneficial thing

that I have done for myself, besides from getting sober, but in conjunction with it, Nance has

completely like transformed my life. It's hard because I have such bad, like, memory, short-term

memory. I don't really remember all of, like, the feels and everything that I had.

I just knew that it had to happen.

I was really upset because I knew it was a long time coming.

You know, I knew I was going to have to quit.

I just didn't know when that was going to be.

And so I was really upset.

I was grieving the fact that I had to make such a big change because drinking was like,

I don't want to say drinking was my life, but everything in my life revolved around drinking,

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