I own it, I didn't, not proud that was me, and when I face it a little dignity, not looking for excuse me, I just want to be free from power.

Weakness head on sea.

Free, free, free, free, free, free.

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

My name is Jean, and I'm a person in successful long-term recovery from alcohol addiction.

I've been writing about my experiences since day one, my first day of sobriety nearly six years ago at unpickled blog.com.

I tell my story there, and I invite you to share your story here.

On this episode, I'm pleased to welcome the amazing Veronica Valley, an author and blogger,

a recovery therapist, and herself a person in recovery.

Veronica, welcome to the bubble hour.

Thank you. It's wonderful to be here.

Oh, it's so nice to hear your voice. Now, Veronica and I have both been active in the recovery

internet world for a number of years and really familiar with each other's work. And this is

exciting for us to talk to each other. It certainly is exciting for me. The same here. It's really cool how, you know, we're all far apart geographically, but I, you know, I see your name every day and I see your work out there all the time. So I'm really excited to talk to you one on one and hear your story. So let's go raise into that.

Sorry, I've always loved the name of your blog, Unpick-R-O.

It's hysterical.

It made perfect sense on the day.

I chose it, and it fortunately still does to this day. It's the one thing I got right on that day anyway.

That's been drinking.

But I want to start out just hearing your story in your words

what how did you get here what what was your relationship with alcohol that that led you to

where you are now well my goodness um well my sobriety day is uh May 2nd. And like yourself, I'm a person in long-time recovery.

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