";s:4:"text";s:5094:" It's so tough and you need people with experience to help you through," he said.Drinking put an end to Lachie Cameron's career as an elite sportsman.He experienced mood swings, isolation and manic episodes that ended with fights with his wife, but he was able to cut back without treatment and he now runs a gym in regional NSW. Nothing that was more attractive than booze anyway.If you think you may be experiencing depression or another mental health problem, please contact your general practitioner. A post shared by Sober in the Country (SITC) (@sober_in_the_country) on Oct 11, 2019 at 1:35pm PDT She reached out to an AA helpline and for the first time, was connected with a recovered alcoholic who was a six-hour round trip away.
I am one of I’m not to tech Davy but I would like to follow your group on line please, Regards Rob ScottShanna …. And it happened so fast and so slowly at the same time. you may already have guessed I am in the Entertainment industry. And until you’ve seen or lived remotely, national badge of honour and pride.Shanna Whan is a remarkable ambassador leading a charge that is overdue for alcohol reform across rural Australia through her authentic brand of conversation which is connecting peers and breaking ancient stimgas wide open.It is wonderful what Shanna is doing and by sharing her story she is helping herself while helping many others and by admitting they have a problem then they are half way home.I drank when I was a teen. And drink. hand. drink daily, or during the day, and I worked and was successful.
of those people who shared memes on social media like ‘I’m not an alcoholic,
Yet it’s something that I’ve never, ever heard a single soul say they regret doing. I can now safely socialise with friends and they can enjoy a beer and I can enjoy a soda water.”On the road to her recovery, however, Shanna had an epiphany.
That is why today I went from being hopeless, suicidal, and in despair to being full of hope and ready to make the change,” she said.“I became completely ready to go to whatever lengths were necessary to get honest, get to work, and to make my life a sober life.” I felt hope and I felt for the first time in my entire life that I was not alone.”In those first few years of sobriety, Shanna and her husband made some significant changes in their lives.“We moved home, I quit work for a full year (because I was a travelling wedding photographer), we stopped going out after 5pm, we stopped allowing people to come to our house with alcohol and we kept no alcohol in our home,” she said.“We followed it as the life-saving treatment for the disease that it was,” she added.“I think it took probably three full years before my husband could ring me and know that I was okay when I said I was okay. ?Founder of Sober in the Country, Shanna Whan shares a touching story of why the combination of alcohol and isolation during COVID-19 has her worried sickAlcohol industry misinformation during COVID-19 has attempted to keep people drinking at pre-pandemic levels.An initiative of the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE), Drink Tank aims to generate meaningful commentary and debate about alcohol policy, and to provide a platform for all members of the Australian community to share their views and concerns.
(She sends an extra special shout-out and hello to all of her old friends in the southern regions where she spent many years in ag x ) There was a nasty facial injury and she had passed out.When Shanna finally came to in the emergency department of her local hospital, she knew it was time for a change.She reached out to an AA helpline and for the first time, was connected with a recovered alcoholic who was a six-hour round trip away.That connection, and that conversation, would be her lifeline.Meeting this woman (now a close friend of Shanna’s) was her turning point.”What happened during that time was literally a miracle and I cannot say it any more plainly than that. I’ve got mid-stage cirrhosis, so I’ll pay for it with 6-monthly scans for liver cancer for the rest of my life, and diminishing liver function even if the big C doesn’t come to visit.But drinking is ALL I wanted to do for 35 or more years. fun and games until it wasn’t. It’s a very serious problem for which there are very few outlets for people like me.“In five years, I have never ever – and believe me, I have spoken to thousands of people – not once have I heard of a person in the country, who has struggled with alcohol, who has quickly found help that worked. Shanna Whan.