I own it. I didn't. Not proud that was me. And when I face it, take that a little dignity. Not looking for excuses

I just want to be free from power

weakness head on me

Free free free free free

Free Hello everyone and welcome to the bubble hour where real people tell real stories of addiction and recovery.

My name is Gene McCarthy.

You can read all about my experiences over the past six years of living without alcohol at unpickled blog.com.

I tell my story there, and I invite you to share your stories here.

And my guest tonight is another blogger.

Her name is Allison.

Her blog is Stone Cold Temperate.

You'll find it at WordPress.com.

And as you will hear from her delightful accent alison

comes us from down under hello alison welcome to the bubble hour hey there thanks jean thanks so

much for having me oh i'm so glad that you are on this show and i'm just it just occurred to me

i should tell the story of how you ended up

being recorded tonight because you made a comment on my blog and then and then you said something

about getting out of your comfort zone or whatever and I was like well then I think you should

tell your story on the bubble hour and then we were like that, that was about a month ago, I think. And then we were booking dates in no time. So I threw it out there and you picked it up. So that was awesome. Jane, I'll tell you a little bit more about that. It's really funny because that night that I commented on your blog, it was night time for me. And I was, I'd just been had dinner with my mum.

And I was telling her about my blog and the reasons why I wanted to write it and sort of go a bit more public with it.

And my reasons were around, you know, that I really want to, you know, do some service and be there.

Just seeing, you know, for other people that, you know,

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