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.

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

I'm your host, Jean McCarthy, today.

And on the show this week, I am sharing listener letters with you.

I get hundreds, if not thousands of letters over the course of a year and I keep a file of

some of them on my desk when people ask me to specifically say that it's something they

would want shared.

I'll save them or sometimes I'll see a post online or someone will send me something

that I think, you know, will hit home with listeners and I'll ask a post online or someone will send me something that I think, you know,

will hit home with listeners and I'll ask for their permission.

So just so you know, I will never read your letter to my answer.

Don't write you right to me and tell your story.

Don't think that it's going to be broadcast if you do write to me.

I love hearing from you and I'm happy to help out as many people as I can.

But definitely, there's always a power in sharing these stories,

and not everyone is comfortable coming on the air,

so sometimes people are much more comfortable with just writing it out and sending it in.

And every once in a while, I do these listener letters episodes, and they're pretty popular.

I want to share a little bit with you about what's going on with me before I go into the listener

letters because I've had kind of a funny thing happening lately.

I've been in physiotherapy for some problems I'm having with my foot, and I've been ignoring

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