December 2018 | Sober for the Holidays and Remote Communities

We're not alone

For eight months, I was crushed by an overwhelming depression. My father had shot himself. Then two months later to the day, my mother killed herself with pills. I found myself spending hours after work dozing on the couch until dinner. Then I’d drag myself to bed. I was down to one AA meeting a week. It was one of the lowest points I’d ever had in sobriety. This time life had handed me a mountain I couldn’t climb. 

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