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A beautiful essay. Open and bold. The things I’ve learned since I chanced on Tempest 3 years ago! So many of you are really finding your voices. Dani I can feel your love and power flowing into this world. It’s having a profound impact. I’m also bursting to love and show up more and more. A gift.

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thank you Mark! Such a delight to still be connected <3 Sending you the biggest hug and warmest wishes always.

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Loved this essay, thank you so much Dani.

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thank you for reading, Cristina <3

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Dani, you have a way of putting amazingly thoughtful (and thought provoking) words to a common (albeit individually lived out) internal struggle or experience in life/addiction-riddled or not.

I so adore these words and concepts and it’s been so helpful on my sober journey. I’m surely not alone. Thank you. ♥️

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CAROL <3 always a delight to hear from you. Big hug to you today and always.

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I have told myself more times than I can count, "I have to reach out to Dani and tell her how much this essay resonated." Like, time and time again, with so many of your essays. Today I am actually doing it.

THANK YOU for this post. You've so eloquently expressed a feeling I've had deep inside myself for-f'ing-ever that I could never properly put into words. And I'm a writer! (Well okay, a copywriter). I'm keeping this essay close and will read it often on my recovery journey. Thank you for sharing your power and knowledge with all of us.

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Oh Ann <3 thank you for reaching out. My heart is so full reading your words!

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Dani, your words are exquisite. I’ve carried “the hole in my heart that I can’t fix” for so long. While I no longer try to douse it with alcohol, I dream of getting to the place of which you so eloquently write.

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ahhh Mary. Feeling this. Big love to you. And so happy you're here <3

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Dani I want to thank you for writing this what I will call “ essay on the enlightenment gain through recovery “ Knowing that you were writing about yourself but I identify with everything the black hole, the dichotomy of feeling you were two different people and being swallowed whole, and allowing it to happen, wanting it.

Seeing you as a person who ventured through the experience of living AF, and mind bending self-awareness that has led you to this beautiful place of love and giving of yourself. I am grateful for your friendship

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thank you my friend. I'm grateful for you too <3

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