My story is of a Bermuda Triangle of experience around alcoholism.
I’m the 4th generation of women in my family deeply affected by growing up and living around alcoholics. I married and divorced two alcoholics. Physical and emotional trauma led me to numb my own pain for years beginning at the age of 13.
Work and my profession became my new addiction, leading to a very successful career on Wall Street. Yet it never felt like enough. I pushed myself to mental and physical exhaustion in order to achieve. Everything on the outside looked “perfect.” Inside, not so.
One of my greatest gifts was when my second husband when into rehab. My eyes were opened to the concept of my own healing. In unraveling my story and working deeply to understand the “why,” I found a legacy that previously I’d only glanced at and certainly hadn’t acknowledged.
Prior generations had few choices.
We now have the opportunity to create something different. A new paradigm of openness and healing.