Raising twins and staying sober 24 hours at a time.
There's a format we follow in twelve steps meetings that is based on sharing your story with your drug of choice and it's a pretty basic yet effective story telling tool that goes like this: - What it was like - What happened - What it's like now I thought I could use this format …
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It was the first day that I didn't drink for the last time (I hope). Did you follow that? October 4, 2001 was far from my last rehab, dry run, committed stay anywhere, but it somehow stuck that time. I was in a rehab in Wisconsin and I was full of shame once again because …
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Two Fridays ago - April 24th, 2020 - I got an invite on my office email that simply said, "catch up call with Katy" and then an HR person I had never even heard of let me know that my position had been eliminated and my last day would be April 30th. She gave me …
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Too Sober For This 