Lori's Story

The Bubble Hour

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 560 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Lori was functioning well in her high-pressure career and alcohol was both a problem and a crutch. Her addiction kicked into overdrive when she had to deal with an overwhelming family issue, and this ultimately led her to make a much-needed change. She learned the difference between being simply 'dry' and true recovery, along with other discoveries along the way. Lori celebrates her second soberversary by sharing her story.

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0:00.0	I own it, I did that, not proud, but that was me, and when I face it, I take back a little dignity, not looking for excuses, I just want to be free from power.
0:22.9	Weakness had on me.
0:25.4	Free, free, free, free, free.
0:32.1	Hi, everyone, and welcome to the bubble hour where real people tell real stories of addiction and recovery.
0:42.6	I'm your host, Gene McCarthy. I write the blog Unpickled, where I've been telling my story of life after alcohol since my first day of sobriety in 2011.
0:53.7	I tell my story there and I hold space for you to share your
0:57.9	stories here. And today, we have a listener named Lori, who is coming up on two years of
1:04.7	sobriety, and she is celebrating by sharing her story with us here today. Hi, Lori. Welcome to the bubble hour.
1:12.4	Hi, Jean.
1:13.2	So happy to be here.
1:15.0	I'm happy you're here too.
1:16.8	Now, you and I have both had the kind of day that would have sent us both into,
1:23.7	probably we'd be into our fourth glass of wine right now because I'm under literally
1:28.6	it's September I'm under two feet of snow in Alberta which is Canada I mean I know you think of
1:35.5	us as the land of ice and snow but it does not snow in September the leaves are still green so it's
1:40.3	crazy here and meanwhile you have been on some kind of crazy travel fiasco today.
1:48.1	Your travel plans went all sideways.
1:50.1	Yeah, crazy.
1:53.1	And then traffic in San Francisco at rush hour.
1:56.1	So planes, trains, and automobiles.
1:59.3	And so now it's where I am, it's almost 9 o'clock at night.
2:03.0	We were scheduled to record at 3 this afternoon.
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