Me at Sober Julie Doing Life: If Shame Was My Illness, Then Love Was the Antidote

"If Shame Was My Illness, Then Love Was the Antidote":

That day when I finally stood up from my table at a local pub and walked away from alcohol, I knew that I was walking away from shame fed by addiction, the snake that had been eating its own tail for over twenty years. I didn’t know how to love my life, but I knew how to lose a large chunk of my shame. I walked into sobriety, I made room for love, and I began to heal my life.