Catrina Slavin is celebrating three years sober by helping other young people aged 13-25 with addiction problems to get their lives back on track.
Catrina Slavin, 41, has changed career, started a support group and launched a podcast about addiction after quitting drinking three years ago.
“Looking back, I probably can trace back my problems with alcohol even to then. I always had to get blackout drunk, always took it too far. “I continued binge drinking, every weekend, I just couldn’t stop. I would wake up, embarrassed and hungover and promise myself that was it. But I couldn’t stop and the next weekend I’d be in the same boat.
She started looking after her physical and mental health, took up hillwalking and started to give back. “It’s an emotional time of year for me, being the anniversary of when I got sober. I had tried several times before, I had tried Sober October and I tried just stopping on my own but I couldn’t.
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