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

This is Jean. I'm back. I just wanted to give you a quick update. Lots of you have been asking us,

where have we been? What is happening with the show? Is everything all right? We thank you for that.

It really is beautiful to see how this community and

this audience has reached back to us to make sure that we are all okay. And we are all okay. We're

all sober and we are all working our recovery programs. Ellie, Amanda, and Catherine all send you

a big, strong bubble hour hug. One by one, we've each had to set aside some of our

extra things that we do in order to look after ourselves. And that has meant that this podcast

has slid onto a back burner over time. It really wasn't our intent to let that happen,

but that's just how it goes. What has surprised us is your response. Our mailbag is bursting. And, well, I just

wanted to read you a few of them. Here's a message from Jamie who says, hi ladies. I just wanted to

say hello and thank you for your continued service to myself and women all over. I'm hoping everything

is okay with all of you. I haven't caught any new episodes and I missed hearing your voices.

Hopefully you're just taking a break, self-care. Maybe you're all on a beautiful, sober vacation on

some island, enjoying the sun and laughing over iced tea. Or maybe you just need a breather. I know. I understand

that. I wanted to check in. I'm almost eight months sober and continue to thank God for putting you all in my life when I needed your words and wisdom the most. Thanks again for your service, Jamie. Thanks, Jamie. And here's one from Kathy. Hi, just a note to say I'm missing your beautiful, insightful, supportive broadcasts. Are you all retiring from the bubble hour now? I hope not. Well, some of you have expressed that

you missed us and some of you say you feel abandoned or even let down and some of you were worried

and you said, come on, you guys, get back at it. We're sorry if we worried you and truly sorry that

we hit the pause button on creating new episodes without giving you a proper heads up.

I'm Canadian. I do say sorry a lot. I'm also in recovery, which means I say thank you a lot.

So thank you, thank you, thank you for caring and expressing your concern. So here's what's

happening now. I'm going to be stepping in as host over the next few months to keep the

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