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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day hi I'm Astrid and I'm definitely an

alcoholic hi everybody it's good to be here tonight and it's an honor and a privilege and I get

to follow Charlie like wow I hope

that's a big big big act what was going on was so moving was so moving I really I feel

choked up and I'm hoping I'm not going to cry my eyes out like a little girl in a tiny pink dress

okay little girl in a tiny pink dress.

Okay.

What does it mean to be an alcoholic?

It's the one disease that we have to diagnose for ourselves.

And everybody around us can say, oh my God, what a drunk.

You're a loser.

You're crazy. You're such a lush, you know, nothing but trouble.

And it isn't until we concede to our innermost self that there's something really, really, really truly fundamentally wrong with us.

And that took me a long time, and some people never get there.

They never, ever, ever can admit and then accept what their devastating weakness is you know and maybe not everybody comes from childhood trauma but i do believe that a lot of our

insanity starts at a very early age and it's sort of a set setup for crazy later on when there's neglect or there's

too much discipline or constant fighting, screaming. And so at a young age, I learn how to get

along with people through screaming and yelling. I learn how to get along with people through screaming and yelling I get a I learn how to get

along with with people through having to be right and getting the last word in

and beating up my sisters and pulling their hair and what's going to happen

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