Sober 14 years and it still didn't fix the worst part.

If you've ever gotten sober and quietly realized it didn't fix the other stuff — the moods, the cravings, the part of your brain that wants more of anything that feels good — Sara Christine Berelsman gets it.

She's 14 years alcohol-free, she was diagnosed bipolar at 33, and last year she picked up a DUI with zero alcohol in her system after grabbing the wrong anxiety-med bottle and driving into a guardrail.

We get into the blackout $500 Sephora orders, the suicidal hangovers she kept having because being drunk felt too good to stop, the cornfield town where 95% of the moms wanted to sell her Pampered Chef and the other 5% were calling her 'crazy drunk mom,' and how writing about all of it became the thing that actually saved her. I also admitted the substance I missed most when I quit wasn't wine, it was Xanax, and that a bottle of 100 Vicodin used to last me about five days, so nobody here is judging. It's funny and it's serious, and it doesn't tie up in a bow.

CHAPTERS
00:00 — Cold open + intro
01:23 — A boy touched her butt at a school dance, and that was that
04:16 — Pregnant and sober, then right back downhill
05:43 — The rock bottom that "made the decision itself"
09:58 — Campral, the shakes, and the sobriety honeymoon
16:10 — Diagnosed bipolar at 33, still drinking
18:48 — "Crazy drunk mom" and the boss babes who shunned her
31:31 — A DUI with zero alcohol, jail, and the mugshot

Find Sara at: https://www.facebook.com/anoccupied.mind

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