I own it, a distant, not proud about me, and when I face it a little dignity, not looking for excuse me, I just want to be free from power, weakness, head on the sea.

Free, free, free, free, free, free.

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

I'm your host, Jean McCarthy. I write the blog Unpickled. I have been telling my story there for eight years now since my very first day of sobriety.

And then I invite you to come here and share your stories.

And today, a listener by the name of Anna is here celebrating six months of sobriety, and she decided to celebrate by paying it forward and sharing her story here with you.

So without any further ado, meet Anna.

Thank you so much, Jean.

It's really cool to be here today.

And like I mentioned to you before, we went on the air.

I feel like it's a newly sober person's bucket list item to be here.

So I'm really grateful.

I think that's really cool.

Was it something that you kind of promised yourself?

Like, I'm going to get to this point so I can be on the show. Is it something you kind of, like, made a goal for yourself?

Or did it just occur to you one day to, that maybe you would do it?

Well, I mean, by the time I actually quit drinking, I was kind of like looking for anything to motivate me to kind of get any length of time under my belt.

And just when I heard like the voices of people that you interviewed and, you know, how many of them just, you know, had gotten to this place that I had been trying to get to for so long. It was just like, well, you know what, this is something I can do. This is something I can work towards. This is part of, this is part of, that can be part of my goal. That's awesome. Well, I'm so glad you're here. And I can tell you without any question that you are giving service to someone else today just by doing this,

because every single show, it reaches the person that needs to hear it.

Like, it's just amazing to me.

And I know that the show did the same thing for me back.

You know, when I was first getting sober and Ellie and Amanda and Lisa were doing the show

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