A speaker describes how shame drove them to drink and self-sabotage, feeling like a fraud. They realized their soul needed to learn unconditional self-love, and that sobriety meant confronting the core wound and realigning with their authentic values.
To me, shame is the lowest you can get as a human. I think it's like the worst feeling. I think it's a really scary place to be in. And I want to say that that shame is what fueled the drinking and the numbing out and the... Because subconsciously, I was sabotaging my life because I felt like a fraud. Wow. I believe that my soul really needed to learn the lesson of unconditional self-love, even though I had done things that I knew were out of alignment with my truth, and really understanding why I was making certain decisions. The path of sobriety, and to me, sobriety represents so much more than just not drinking or doing drugs. It represents getting to the core of the wound, and then getting your life back in alignment.
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