The Rigorous Honesty That Took a Few Years to Land – June G.
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Venice Beach, barefoot and bleeding. June G. didn't just drink; she used alcohol and pills as emotional insulation to survive a childhood of violence and a visceral hatred for her own existence. She spent years crafting the persona of a "Tough Broad," putting out cigarettes with her bare feet on the boardwalk and fighting groups of five just so no one would notice she never won a single fight. For June, the wreckage wasn't just lost money or broken homes—it was a total absence of moral character and a desire to clear rooms with terror.
She entered the rooms of AA not for help, but because she admired a violent alcoholic named Paul who could make people back away in fear. After a near-fatal overdose and a series of failures, she found a Higher Power through a sponsor she initially hated for wearing pink and coming from a loving home. From stealing the Big Book at a library to typing 37 words a minute with 19 errors, June’s sobriety was a slow, gritty grind toward a life she never wa...
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