Often I am alone.
And support in sobriety is important. Support in life is important.
Slaying demons during a pandemic is hard. Maintaining sobriety in isolation is harder.
This year has brought me one of the biggest challenges I’ve ever faced.
Getting sober isn’t pretty.
None of it is fun.
It hurts from day one.
This weekend I was reminded of real love and absolute grace.
When you go through life changes you find out fast who you can depend on. Who is there, and who shows up.
My circle is very small.
My friends, this beautiful collective of Wise Women, they are my family.
I am thankful.
They are the ones who have seen me through my traumas, my depressive episodes, my mental breaks, my heartache, and now they are holding me up in my sobriety.
I would not be here without them.
I read somewhere, “Friendship is finding somebody who’ll walk with you- even in the dark.”
That is our story. Our intertwined lives, our love, our children, our pain. It’s all there inside this circle. For the first time in a long time, I felt not only supported but loved with the purest energy.
I know there is still a lot of dark to walk, for all of us, but they remind me of the light.
And I am so grateful to be walking with these amazing women in the Sun.