between breaths a memoir of panic and addiction

My husband and therapist picked that rehab. The incident scared her enough to stop drinking and she went to her second rehab. But Vargas passed out in the lobby and was taken away in an ambulance. Two predatory men were eyeing Vargas so the concerned passerby intervened and got the drunk newscaster home safely. I’m told a woman saw me at Riverside Park in my work clothes and wobbling in high heels.” in the emergency room with zero memory of what happened. “The next thing I remember is waking up at four a.m. “I’d had lots of brownouts,” she said, “but never a blackout.” That is until one day when she began drinking in the early afternoon after work. My drinking was suddenly on steroids and I had huge consequences.”

“Stress at work, and then being diagnosed with post-partum anxiety. It was a very good experience.” But after leaving the Utah rehab after only two weeks, she was not able to stay sober and her alcoholism progressed. “I’m struck by the lectures and therapists there.

“I look back on a lot of the writing that I did,” she said. My friend took one look at me and knew.” Her first rehab was that year at Cirque Lodge in Utah. That’s when I knew I was in no condition to conduct an interview. Vargas described a day in 2012 when she showed up at ABC too drunk to work. It wasn’t until my 40s that I fell off a cliff.” “My story is different than others I’ve heard ‘in the rooms,’” she told me. Now sober for two years, Vargas is committed to sobriety but understands we only have a daily reprieve from alcohol. Resigned and humiliated, she returned to that second rehab. In 2014, she went to a second rehab but left prematurely. It’s no surprise that didn’t work and the disease progressed. Fast.She went to her first rehab in 2012, but denial said she only needed two weeks of treatment. | American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal

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In Between Breaths, she details her struggles with anxiety, alcoholism, and balancing career and motherhood. The co-anchor of ABC’s long-running flagship news show 20/20, Elizabeth Vargas became an inspiration for others fighting addiction from the moment she told interviewer George Stephanopoulos, “I am an alcoholic.” A former anchor of World News Tonight and a 1998 Emmy Award winner for her coverage of the Elián González story, Vargas reported many of contemporary journalism’s most important stories while simultaneously balancing the demands of family life, all while keeping her dependency a secret.

Between breaths a memoir of panic and addiction