Kaylene
Life was finally at the stage where I felt the most comfortable and happy. To be able to stay in a room with over five hundred people and not want to escape for the first time wasn’t a challenge. To be able to smell the alcohol on others' breath and not want a drink was an achievement I never thought was possible. To have a room full of people hug and shake my hand without my skin crawling and the urge to run for a shower was a feeling I don’t think I’ll ever get used to.
To some, all of these are small matters but to me, these were colossal stepping stones. I finally feel comfortable within my own skin. I can finally process my feelings and emotions without tucking them away behind anger or substances. It might have been possible to get where I am at some point in my life, but I
