I own it, I did that, not proud that was 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 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 your host, Jean McCarthy.

I write the blog Unpickled, where I've been writing all about life after alcohol since my very first day of sobriety in 2011.

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

And today's guest is a listener who wrote to me and said she would like to celebrate her

six-month mark of sobriety by giving back and telling her story here on the Bottle Hour,

a show that she found very helpful while she was getting sober.

And so I am really pleased and touched and happy to celebrate along with Emily today.

She's 28 years old, and she is going to tell us about what her first six months of many, many, many months in a lifetime of recovery ahead,

but what of these past

first six months look like so emily welcome to the bubble hour

thank you very much jean i'm very honored to be here to share my story

oh that's so great it means a lot to me just it's so cool to know that

the stories other people have been telling have helped you,

and now you're doing the same.

And I love how it just kind of is so circular.

And the way that we all just, nobody's really alone in this role,

we're all kind of doing it together.

And I'm really grateful that you chose to celebrate them this way.

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