Episode 107
Belonging in Long-Term Recovery
In this episode, I talk with Ann VerSteeg about long-term recovery, being a single mom for decades, and overcoming some of life's most traumatic experiences. With alcohol clouding life as a teenager, she never knew what was real or imagined until she got sober.
Annie is a 67-year old single sober badass with two adult children. Annie got sober when her kids were six and four. She was a midwife and then became a Lactation Consultant.
She has an 11-year old Lab, Jimmy, two grandsons, and lives in San Diego, California.
Some of the topics you will hear:
- What depression feels like
- Her Fertility Journey, not infertility journey
- Getting divorced and dealing with the "new" wife
- Betrayal and how it changes your life forever
- Being a mom and letting go of control
- Her daughter's drinking at fourteen
- Taking medication now for depression
- Anti-depressants and how they have helped
- Annie's Sober Journey
- At 30-weeks pregnant she learned her husband was in love with someone else and walked out the door.
- Being a single parent and not feeling like she belonged
- Repairing her relationship with her daughter today
- Being single for 28 years
- Her parents drinking
- Losing her mom to alcoholism
- It wasn't hard for her to get sober
- What a dry drunk is.
- Long-term sobriety and how she reminds herself why she can't drink today
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