Great to have you for another episode. Brad here. Right before we get into it, two seconds of your time.

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Tell a few of your friends. Thank you so much. Now let's get to the

show. You don't have to wait until you've lost everything. You don't have to compare your life

with anybody else around you or the perception of what an alcoholic is. I think at the end of the day,

if you can just really have an honest look at your own life and a true reflection and ask yourself,

am I happy?

Great to have you back for another episode. In this episode, I catch up with my friend Ash

Butters. Ash and I have known each other for years. She's always been incredibly supportive.

And I love just to get her perspective and her take on this process, how it's changed her life,

what she sees working for others.

And this is Ash Butter's update story here on the Sober Motivation podcast.

Curious there when you mentioned, like I think there's a lot of people living in that spot, too, that you mentioned that your drinking is no different and that, you know, maybe all of the outside indicators aren't there.

I think that people are on this, maybe search for things falling apart before doing things

before doing something about drinking. I mean, what helped you kind of move through that phase,

you know, to get to a spot where like, okay, some changes would help me.

Well, I think that the journey to recovery looks different for everybody.

And one thing that you can't compare is your rock bottom.

So for me, I define my rock bottom as this one night where I went out, you know, I was staying with my mom in

Melbourne and I told her that I was going to be home after a couple of drinks. The reality was I got

home at 8 o'clock the next morning and the look on her face, which I'd seen a million times before,

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