Her Defects Are Doing Push-Ups Behind the Curtain – Rosie T.
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Pico and Vermont, a street where a fourteen-year-old girl was bullied in front of the world. That is where the wreckage started, long before the drink. Rosie T. didn't enter the rooms as an alcoholic; she became one through action and the slow death of false pride. She describes a life of "full flight from reality," partying in bathrooms and embezzling seven thousand dollars from an employer. For Rosie, the steps weren't a suggestion but a survival kit for the low spots.
She speaks of the "pink cloud" and the delusion of becoming Mother Teresa after a fifth step, only to find her defects "doing push-ups behind the curtain." Trust didn't come easy; it took fourteen years and a death in sobriety to finally trust a Higher Power. Now, she lives in a state of currency and urgency, treating sobriety as a gift for a woman who grew up with an outhouse and was smuggled into the U.S. For her, Step 12 is the joy of living, found in the grit of making coffee and the raw honesty of the rooms.
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