Someone in recovery explains how addiction made them fear they'd never become a parent. They couldn't imagine staying sober through pregnancy, so they pushed the thought away. They got sober before having children.
As a parent, substance use can significantly impact one's experience from the parental side and as a human being. I'm curious to know how it may have influenced your journey. Looking back at your recovery journey, did you ever feel like addiction took precedence over your role as a parent?
So thankfully, I was actually in recovery. I was clean before I had my children. I remember while I was at the peak of my using, I would think about how am I ever even going to have children because I couldn't stop using and drinking. And I figured, how can I? I can't be pregnant for 9 months and not drink anything. It's physically impossible for me. And so I would get really overwhelmed and then push that to the back of my mind because it was a really uncomfortable feeling.
