Karen's Story

The Bubble Hour

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 560 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Karen's story will resonate with anyone who has ever drank to numb feelings of inadequacy or depression. Karen was a hard-working high-achiever with everything under control until she embarked on a challenge she didn't feel she could master to her usual standards: motherhood. What she believed should be the happiest time of her life instead spiralled in a very different direction. Karen looks back on these low times and reflects on how far she has since come as a woman in recovery.

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0:00.0	blog talk radio
0:01.5	I own it
0:11.1	not proud that was me
0:14.5	and when I face it
0:16.0	a little dignity
0:19.1	not looking for excuses
0:21.7	I just want to be free from power
0:25.5	weakness head on sea
0:28.0	Free free free free free free
0:31.5	Free free
0:31.6	Free
0:35.6	Hi everyone Hi, everyone, and welcome to the bubble hour where real people tell real stories of addiction and recovery.
0:46.8	This is Jean. I write a blog called Unpickled, and I started it on my first day of sobriety over five years ago.
0:52.7	I write my story there and invite you to share your story here.
0:56.5	And on this episode, we're going to talk about a kind of a before and after story.
1:01.3	So many of our listeners share that personality trait, a feeling that they appear much more
1:06.3	competent on the outside than they really feel on the inside.
1:09.9	Their comfort zone is in the area of hard work and achievement,
1:13.6	and even they never feel truly worthy of the praise that results.
1:18.6	And many of us learn as children that we should be good.
1:21.6	And then we're left to our own devices to try to figure out how to get there.
1:25.6	And in our innocence, we may have
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