Sonia started drinking daily when she started a business. It was a work hard play hard philosophy. She was functioning professionally at such a high level that no one even considered she could have a problem. The business was exploding and the better it did, the more she drank, and as a result the more her mental health deteriorated.
Sonia received an offer to sell her business, and I couldn’t turn it down. But she knew that she would start drinking more with her days less busy and she didn't know where or how that would end. So she quit……White knuckled with great difficulty. Sonia had a list of things she had wanted to do, and one by one she checked them off. She went to school for photography, took writing classes, and jewelry-making classes. She started exercising, eating healthy, making art, and writing about her sobriety. Sonia calls it - “doing all the things.”
Today, Sober since 2017, Sonia is the founder of EverBlume which provides small group recovery meetings where members are matched into groups based on what they are struggling with. Since then, she has become a recovery coach and has dedicated her life to making a difference with social impact investing and volunteering with the incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and victims of sex trafficking. And now she hopes to create her biggest impact by leveraging the power of peer support to create community for those on their recovery journey.
Sonia believes that even though the specifics of everyone's recovery journey are unique there is a common thread of shared human experience. She wants to share her story so that people can see that when you least believe it - the resilience of the human spirit is an undeniable force that is in all of us.
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