Ep 56: Kelly Fitzgerald on Her Journey to Becoming The Sober Senorita

Welcome to Episode # 56 of The Alcohol & Addiction Podcast and my guest Kelly Fitzgerald AKA The Sober Senorita. The story of Kelly Fitzgerald is an unerringly familiar one. A young woman is drawn into a lifestyle built on the flooded foundation of alcohol. Nightclubs, parties, shots and the whole sorry mess that goes with it including a broken nose after a particularly eventful bender. Then, one day, she had enough. Kelly Fitzgerald was no more. The Sober Senorita blossomed in her place. Kelly created the Sober Senorita as a website where she could tell her story with the aim of inspiring others to follow her journey out of the darkness of addiction and into the light of what comes after, and this is exactly what we talk about in this episode of the Alcohol & Addiction Podcast. Podcast Takeaways The Sober Senorita - https://sobersenorita.com/ Veronica Valli: Why You Drink and How to Stop - http://amzn.to/2bZFZpk Caroline Knapp: Drinking a Love Story - http://amzn.to/2bZFwUh Sarah Hepola: Blackout Remembering The Things I Drank to Forget - http://amzn.to/2bSIo9k Thanks for listening. Before you go, if you have any questions for Kelly or me, then please leave them in the comments section on the blog, or you can message me at needyhelper@gmail.com. If you find the AA Podcast a valuable resource, then please tell your friends about it and share the love. You would make me a very happy man indeed if you could rate us on iTunes. Before you go, do you want to join me in the trenches and learn what life is like in the middle of an addiction story? I'm not talking about the part when you are drunk out of your skull and can't remember anything. I'm talking about what comes after you quit. How do you fill the white space? How do you find a new community? How do you find meaning and purpose? If these questions interest you, then buy my new book Needy Helper 2015 Diary Excerpts: A Life After Alcohol. - http://amzn.to/2axGveg Talking about community, how would you like to become a member of the Needy Helper Hub? It's a new idea to create a constant community, support and continual personal improvement process forever. It's my intention to be online as much as I can to answer any questions you have about your addiction, and to continually update the Hub with training tools, tips and techniques to help you create a whole new life. If that interests you, then click the link below to find out more. - http://www.needyhelper.com/the-needy-helper-hub/ This podcast would not be possible without the sterling efforts of Neil Chow and Liza Lim, so big hugs and kisses to them, and also to you, the listeners, without whom this podcast wouldn't be possible, so thanks for giving me your ear to bend.