Brené Brown

And so this woman said, let's go grab dinner after the meeting.

And I told her my story.

And she looked up and she said...

I believe you have the poo-poo platter of addictions.

I need you to stop drinking, using food to comfort yourself, and stop involving yourself in all of your family's problems and issues."

I was like, shit.

I'm going to have a lot of time on my hands.

And then that was it.

Then I worked the AA program and went to meetings all the time for about a year and a half.

And was also working on that stuff in therapy and have been sober since.

Thank you.

Secondly.

Thanks.

No, go ahead.

No, it's, I posted about it, which we can, is a weird thing.

I posted about it.

on social for a really weird reason.

I sometimes post things like that and sometimes don't.

The number of people that have come up to me over the last 15 years and said, you sharing your story really helped me get sober and putting a face on it that's different really allowed me to get help.

And so I had to weigh kind of, it feels private, but at the same time,