I own it, I didn't, 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, free.

Well, hi there, 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 telling my story of life after alcohol since my very first day of sobriety way back in 2011.

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

Well, many of us who make the change to sobriety find our lives so improved

that we wish everyone could know what we've learned.

We want to shout it out from the rooftops, at least sometimes,

and we want to help everyone we meet who's struggling change of their lives, sort sometimes, and we want to help everyone we meet

who's struggling change their lives, sort of, and we want to shine a light for all to see,

except, well, you look, that's kind of hard to do, right? I mean, a lot of us kind of have

the enthusiasm to share it, but it's hard to do that. Well, it's not hard if you're today's

guest, Sarah Roberts, a woman with many years

of recovery who has made it her life's work to shatter the stigma of addiction and the

stigma of recovery and put tools into everyone's hands to break free of the things that are

holding us back. Her work reaches beyond sobriety, even into our relationship with food as well.

Sarah Roberts, welcome to the bubble hour.

Oh, my goodness. What a wonderful way to start this conversation. Thank you so much for having me.

Well, I really appreciate what you do, and your enthusiasm is just huge, and you really do have the lighthouse thing going of just letting

people know that there are tools and being there to put them in their hand and I respect

that's a hard thing to do because in doing this show week after week for you know a number of

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