Sherry Hoppen, Author of SOBER CYCLE

The Bubble Hour

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 560 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Sherry Hoppen is the founder of She Surrenders, a ministry encouraging women into faith-based recovery. As a Christian woman who has lived through the nightmare of addiction to alcohol, she helps others battling addiction through writing, speaking, coaching. Sherry leads weekly meetings for faith-based recovery in the group she started, Joyful Surrender. She regularly shares her journey with her trademark honesty and humor at women’s events, Bible studies, recovery retreats, and podcasts. In her book, Sober Cycle (New Hope Publishing, 2021), she shares her personal story of alcohol addiction and the nonsensical things she did to escape it. An avid reader and cyclist, Sherry and her husband enjoy traveling and loving on their three grandsons. * Visit host Jean McCarthy's website www.jeanmccarthy.ca for more links and information about this episode and The Bubble Hour.

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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
0:40.6	recovery. I'm Gene McCarthy, recovery author, blogger, and podcast host. I've been chronicling my
0:47.1	adventures in life after alcohol since my first day of sobriety a decade ago in my blog on
0:52.7	Pickled and in the books that I write. You can find them
0:55.5	at jean McCarthy.ca. I tell my stories there and I hold space for your stories here. And today
1:02.3	I'm holding space for Sherry Hoppin. Sherry is the organizer and founder of She Surrenders, a website
1:09.0	and a group for women in recovery. And she has been on the show before.
1:13.6	She shared her story in January of 2019. So be sure you check out that episode. She's here today to
1:20.1	talk about her new book, a memoir called Sober Cycle. And she joins me today. Hi, Sherry.
1:27.4	Hi, Jean. It is so great to be back here with you.
1:31.0	Thanks so much for having me. I'm glad you're here. You and I could probably do a 24-hour talk
1:37.8	channel where we only take commercial breaks so we can go to the bathroom and get a cup of coffee
1:43.7	because I'm with you. Yeah, tell them how so we can go to the bathroom and get a cup of coffee because...
1:45.0	I'm with you. Yeah, tell them how long we've already talked. Yeah, so we've been actually
1:50.3	talking off air for an hour now before we even started the recording. I normally scheduled like
1:56.5	five minutes for that. And, yeah.
2:01.6	Well, we have a lot to catch up on always.
2:03.6	So we said we're going to schedule something when we don't have to record a podcast.
2:07.6	So we'll have to do that to make sure because we had to cut ourselves off already.
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