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My name’s Carol Burk,
and I am happily celebrating nine and a half years of recovery.
I joined the self-help group called Women for Sobriety
and basically that’s how I became sober at the ripe old age of 48.
How’s it changed my life?
In my family, I broke the chain.
My daughter, who is now 15,
does not recall me ever drinking.
I know who I talk to on the phone the night before;
I am in control of myself,
and my words and my actions,
where before, when I was drinking,
I didn’t know what I was doing sometimes.
And it’s made me
take a journey that I didn’t want to take,
but that has been
the most wonderful journey of my life.
I’ve learned so much about myself and about the world,
and about the fact that alcoholism truly is a disease.
And we need to help each other pretty much
and I’m proud to say that,
I’m a recovering alcoholic.
I have nothing to be ashamed of.
You can be poor, you can be rich,
you can be a doctor, you can be a lawyer,
you can be anybody and have the problem.
I think women, it’s more difficult,
cause we’re like, sorta,
they look upon us as like a lush
and we become closet drinkers.
So the only thing I can say is,
if you have a problem,
do something.
It’s hard to take that first step,
but the first step is so, so worth it.
For nine and a half years of sobriety
I would take the first step all over again.
Thank you!