Divine Detour Series | Caroline D'Amore on Sobriety, Motherhood, and Finding Her Voice

You're going to die young.

I think.

And right when I outlived her, this whole kind of, I'll get to that, but I, in that moment, when I looked at my baby in the hospital, I was like, I'm not gonna do to her what was done to me and I'm not gonna make her go through the same pain that I went through.

I think a lot of us are, we're, we don't even know we're doing it, but we somehow start to create the same life that we, we're in.

And it takes a lot to dig deep, face it, admit it, change it, and keep on a good track for the rest of your life, the well-being of your family.

And

I believe they call that generational patterns and everyone does it unless you break it.

Unless you face it.

On some level, we're all doing it unless you face it.

And I have dealt with some as well, and it is not easy.

No, it's so hard.

So hard.

But if I didn't have my daughter, I probably wouldn't be here today.

I'm definitely one of those people who did it for her and just saw little me in little her and was just like, I got to change this.

Yeah.

Okay.

So did you go straight to AA?

Yes.

Straight to AA.

I lasted eight months and then I thought that I could drink like a normal person again.

And so then I just had a bunch of more like silly, like obnoxious drunk moments that I was kind of like, okay, I never want to

be that person.

Yeah.

So I made it official.

You're like, now I'm