RE 529: It Doesn't Matter What You Have

Today we have Jenny. She is 38 years old from Hudson, WI and she took her last drink on February 16, 2020.

 

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[02:35] Thoughts from Paul:

 

It doesn’t really matter what word or label we attach to our relationship with alcohol. It doesn’t matter what we call it; we still need to do something about it. Paul says that his own pursuits of solving the “why” behind his drinking and how his addiction took hold has been a revealing journey of self-discovery even he won’t be able to pin down exactly why he crashed and burned so hard.

 

When we relentlessly scour the past for reasons why we drink, we take our energies away from the only moment where true healing and peace reside, which is this very moment right now.

 

Addiction does everything it can to pull us from the present moment. Ruminating on what happened, what you have tends to be fruitless. Befriend and make peace the part of you that seeks oblivion and self-destruction. An addiction path may be what our souls choose in hopes of teaching us what really matters in life.

 

[09:03] Paul introduces Jenny:

 

Jenny is a previous guest and was featured in Episode 417 back in 2023 after celebrating three years alcohol-free.

 

Jenny is married and they have a seven-year-old son. She enjoys exercise, adventure and being outside. She does professional development for the construction industry.

 

Jenny drinking when she was 11 years old with the goal of being a rebel. She says she had a goal of being a tough, naughty girl and says it let her down the road to 22 years of binging and going on benders with alcohol and drugs.

 

In her late twenties, Jenny had a miscarriage and says that it was at that point that she knew she had a problem, a