Michellene's Story

The Bubble Hour

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 560 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Michellene first considered sobriety at 26 after it became clear that her relationship with alcohol was out of control. Despite attending a program and doing stepwork, she was easily dissuaded from an alcohol-free lifestyle and continued to drink through her 30s and 40s. Her alcohol use escalated when she became a parent, as she struggled with feelings of guilt and shame over not enjoying motherhood as much as she felt she "should'. Eventually Michellene realized that she didn't need to hit a low bottom to change her relationship with alcohol and she decided on January 1, 2017 to leave it behind for good.

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0:00.0	I own it, a distant, not proud that was me, and when I face it a little dignity, not looking for excuses.
0:18.0	I just want to be free from power.
0:22.6	Weakness head on the sea.
0:24.6	Free, free, free, free, free, free.
0:27.6	Free, free. Hi there, everyone, and welcome to the bubble hour where real people tell real stories of addiction and recovery.
0:43.4	I'm your host, Jean McCarthy.
0:45.2	I write the blog Unpickled.
0:47.0	I've been telling my story there of life after alcohol since my very first day of sobriety in 2011.
0:53.7	I tell my story there, and I invite you to share your stories here. since my very first day of sobriety in 2011.
0:58.2	I tell my story there, and I invite you to share your stories here.
1:04.2	And today on the podcast, we have a very special day to celebrate.
1:09.8	We're celebrating a thousand days of recovery for our guest, Michelin, and we're going to meet her in just a moment. But first, I want to talk to you about a couple of things. So first of all, I just thought you might be interested to know. We're recording this on October 21st, and it is our federal election here in Canada. Did you know that? Probably you didn't, unless you're Canadian, because we do things a little quietly up here.
1:28.6	But that's what's going on.
1:29.5	So as soon as this is done, I'm going off to vote.
1:32.2	And I just feel like that is just always such a privilege and such an emotional thing to me to be able to vote and to be just part of, I don't know, having our say and making things happen.
1:45.7	So anyway, for interest sake, that's what's going on in Canada.
1:48.7	So by the time you hear this, who knows, maybe we'll know who our new prime minister will be.
1:52.9	If we have a new prime minister, maybe we'll have the same one again.
1:56.0	Google that in the morning and see what happens here in Canada.
1:59.5	I also wanted to tell you I have been
2:01.4	super busy for the last couple weeks. I am putting together something called the unpickled
2:06.9	holidays survival guide. And it is just a slim volume of anecdotes and resources and a sort of
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