Have a seat and grab your favorite sparkling water. It's Recovery Happy Hour, where we talk about life beyond the bottle and what happens after we get sober.

I'm your host Tricia. Thanks for joining me today.

Guys today I want to talk about this concept of before and after. This is something I see in my private Facebook groups and on

Instagram where we want to share what we look like before we got sober and then

what we look like after. One shows a visible hot mess, one shows the ideal

picture of health. It's fun right? Absolutely. But what if your before and

after photo looks pretty much the same?

I posted a photo on the Recovery Happy Hour Instagram page a couple of weeks ago

showing what I looked like two days before I quit drinking.

I was in a cute dress from Target, I had my hair blown out,

and I was holding a cheese platter,

right before game night with my friends.

I didn't look like I had a problem.

And I thrived on this guys I was actually really good at hiding my problem

Even when I came out to my close friends and later told them that I was addicted to alcohol and needed a change. Some of them didn't believe me because I did a damn good job at looking like everything was fabulous.

So my before and after photo doesn't look all that different.

I mean, my hair is pink now and that's about it.

In most cases, I probably look a lot cuter in my before photos

because I wasn't always working 60 hours a week and wearing sweatpants

half the time. But don't let this derail you. My sweet, sweet listeners. If you're the same

and your before photo looks a lot like your after photo,

keep something in mind. The work you're doing on the inside,

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