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Episode 022 - Removing the Distortion: How Sobriety Unlocked Paulina Pinsky's Most Potent Creative Work
Paulina Pinsky got sober on December 22, 2021, after a panic attack in an Alabama gas station—days before Christmas, ending an engagement, and moving back in with her parents at 29. Most people would wait years before writing about that kind of rock bottom. Paulina started documenting it 70 days later.
What emerged from that decision is newly sober, a newsletter that captures what’s missing from most recovery literature: the messy, uncertain, gut-wrenching first year as it’s actually happening. No polish. No retrospective wisdom. Just the raw truth of early recovery, written in all lowercase…
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