I own it, I did that, not proud, but that was me, and when I face it, I take back a little dignity, not looking for excuses, I just want to be free from power.

Weakness had on me.

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 Gene McCarthy, recovery author, blogger, and podcast host.

I've been chronicling my adventures in life after alcohol since my first day of sobriety a decade ago,

in my blog Unpickled, and in the books that I write. I tell my stories there

and I hold space for your stories here. And today I'm holding space for Bev Sartain.

Bev is a psych strategist who helps others heal their wounds so that they can serve. Beverly truly

believes that helpers are the greatest asset in helping humanity.

And she encourages people in the helping profession to continue their inner work to be of service to

helping others from a healthy place. She's the author of Transcending Trauma and she joins me today

to tell her story, celebrate her recovery, and to talk about

helping helpers heal. Hi, Bev, welcome to the bubble hour. Thank you so much. It's a lot of

a lot of H's. Alliteration for you. A lot of alliteration. I'm up for it today. You're lucky.

Well, thanks for being here. I want to get right down to business. I want our listeners to get to

know you and hear your story. So I will turn it over to you. All right. Thank you so much for having

me. I am so excited to be here. I'm going to be celebrating 15 years of recovery very soon, so I'm very happy about that. I am middle-aged, so I'm 41, and I've been married for about 10 years. We live in Jacksonville, Florida, and we have four rescue dogs.

We were never able to have children, so our rescue animals are really, really important to us.

We're currently even talking about buying more land so that we can train and foster dogs.

I love being in nature.

So Jacksonville has just a lot of beautiful, beautiful nature.

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