Patrice T. - Sober 43 Years

Patrice T. has experienced the disease of alcoholism and the gifts of sobriety, both as a child of an alcoholic and later as the alcoholic herself. At one point, her own alcoholism overlapped her father’s struggle with the disease until she, too, found sobriety. Her story is fraught with the strife of her father’s alcoholism through her childhood and adolescence. And, like many of us, she started drinking as a teenager despite what she saw in her own home. Drinking brought both relief and release to Patrice’s increasingly chaotic life. By the time she was practicing nursing in her...