Amy B. joins us today on The SHAIR Podcast, and Amy got sober 10 years ago using 12-step recovery. Most recently she became a recovery coach and is participating in an internship with a long-term up to two years sober treatment living facility. She joins us today to share with us her unbelievable battle with alcohol and her inspirational journey into recovery.
Clean Date: August 4, 2006
Below are few questions Amy answered for us on the show.
Omar: What is the best suggestion you have ever received?
Amy B. : Don't give up until the miracle happens. A gentlemen on Friday nights who ... He called me Miracle Girl. Every Friday night I would go into the meeting and Jim, his name happens to be Jim like my husband. He'd be like, "Did it happen?" I'm like, "Not yet, Jim." When the miracle started happening, I'm like, "I got to start dressing better. I got to get a haircut. I'm like a walking miracle, you know." One of the things that people say to me, they call me their Miracle Girl or Funny Amy. You know how we all have handles. I'm like, "As long as I'm not Old Amy, I'm okay. You guys call me whatever you need to call me."
Once that miracle happened, the epiphany, the beer truck or leaving that booze in that house and that, just awed by gratitude of ... Gosh. That year I stopped drinking alone when my kids were little, the obsession never left. Never left, until I actually did the program and got free from the obsession, whether I was drinking or not, I was in the obsession. My husband's a normal drinker. When he's drinking, I don't wish I was. That's freedom. That's freedom.
Omar: If you could give a newcomer only one suggestion, what would that be?
Amy B. : Open your mind and try a real adventure. You can always go back to hell. Hell doesn't close the door. When I sobered up, I couldn't do one errand a day. I wasn't able to get dressed and I couldn't even take a shower most days. Now, there's not enough time in a day to get all the things done I want to do. Now, I'm truly free. I never felt like an adult before and that was one of the things that kept me drinking. Now, I'm a full-fledged adult with the same responsibilities, but also the same freedoms as an adult. That's my thing, just try it. Give it six months, give it a year. Give it whatever time limit, just try. I didn't know there was this much grace in the world. I did the same thing for 30 years, and I got the same results. I tried something different for 10, and I now I can't even imagine what's on the horizon for me.
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