Welcome back to season four of the Sobermotivation podcast.

Join me, Brad, each week as my guests and I share incredible and powerful sobriety stories.

We're here to show sobriety as possible, one story at a time.

Let's go.

In this episode of the podcast, Emily joins the show to share her powerful story of growing up with alcoholic parents, her own struggles with addiction, and the journey to sobriety.

Emily recounts removed to Texas, feelings of disconnection, and major life challenges, including an unplanned pregnancy and battling and eating disorder.

We explore Emily's slow non-linear path to recovery

after decades of chronic relapse, 20 institutions, and a DUI with her child in the car,

an ongoing neurological damage from alcohol use, all while mothering four children. She discusses

her multiple stints in rehab and what led her to get

sober again in 2016. Emily also speaks about her memoir, wife, mother, drunk, which explores

her family's generational trauma, her personal experiences, and her path to healing and understanding.

And this is Emily's story on the sober motivation podcast. Welcome back to

another episode. Brad here. If it's your first time here, this will be new for you. If you've been

here for a while, you've probably heard this before. But we would love to have you in the

suburb motivation community. I was thinking about what makes a community special.

In the sober space, we have a lot of meetings. Yes, we do have that. We have a great way to chat.

We have a lot of vulnerability, a lot of connection. But I was thinking, what does really make

a community special? And maybe it's obvious to everyone else and wasn't to me,

but it's the people, the people that are involved. I had one person to reach out to me recently

that just couldn't believe it. They had joined a couple of meetings and people were sending

them messages afterwards just cheering for them. And for them, it was so confusing. Why do these people that I don't even really know

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