Oh Hi . I’m Em 🤍

I recently have gone through what has proven to be the most substantial change I’ve made in my entire adult life; I got sober.

Getting and staying sober is at the top of the list of the most significant things I’ve done in this current lifetime. There are countless reasons as to why it was the best decision I’ve ever made, but most importantly it has given me the opportunity to re-discover and re-invent myself in ways I never knew but maybe, deep down, always thought were possible.

While I can’t stress enough how proud I am to be sober and celebrate how much it has done to change my life, it’s not the only thing that defines me (a thought I had to fight hard against in the first few months of sobriety).

I am a wife, a cat mom, a daughter, a sister, an auntie, a friend.

I’m creative and intuitive, smart, compassionate, and I think I’m funnier than most people think I am. I am to a fault, an over-achiever and super competitive. I am a passionate conversationalist (that’s my self-soothing way of saying I love to talk, sometimes, too much). I am an over-thinker, an empath, I love hard and give most things 110% effort, oftentimes to the point of excess (hence, the whole drinking problem thing).

I love food, and cooking, General Hospital (yes, the soap opera), horses, football (Raider Nation), Justin Bieber, the sun, the moon, road trips, hiking, learning, dancing, singing, frolicking, Michael Jackson, coffee, the 90’s, fall in upstate New York, baths, candles, live music, drawing, journaling, summertime, a good sweatshirt, being barefoot, snuggles, discovering more things to love, & myself.

Things I don’t like that most people do: Chocolate, Elton John, cartoons, beans, candy canes, Disney, going to the movies (unless it’s the drive-in), the Beatles, sledding, doing any kind of activity in the winter, & cake.

Things I like that I didn’t like or do as much before sobriety: exercising, running, solitude, writing, reading, trying new things, sweets, babies, & myself.

That’s about all I got for now. Read some of the blog if you want to learn more about me and this wildly random, beautiful ride of sobriety I’m journeying on! Like, subscribe, do all the good stuff!