I own it, a distant, 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.

Hi, everyone, and welcome to the bubble hour where real people tell real stories of addiction and recovery.

I'm your host, Gene McCarthy, and today our guest is Shelly Ann McKay.

Living life in the fast lane while working in the entertainment industry meant

Shelly Ann's norm was a work-hard, play hard play hard world you want me to come where there

isn't any booze or drugs don't invite me was her motto this plus a lifetime of disordered eating

behaviors led her to a crisis of health that would nearly take her life but thankfully instead led her

to a healing path now nine years sober shelley ann devotes her life to helping other women overcome the brokenness that leads

to self-destruction.

Shelly Ann, welcome to the bubble hour.

Thank you.

Thank you for having me.

Now, we found each other online.

We're both people that have blogs and have helping, have given our time to help other people.

And it was really interesting to cross paths because we're both Canadian.

There's not too many of us up here that are doing this.

Yes, ooh-hoo Canada.

Yeah.

Well, we always like to start by hearing your story and um you have

you have a long story i mean your your beginnings go way back so take us back to the beginning

of your relationship with alcohol and how things unfolded for you over the years.

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